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Study Examines Straight Men and Their Sexual Attraction to Transgender Women

An analysis of online Reddit conversations also revealed a paradox: the same men devalue both trans and cisgender women

Balancing Lipids And Recycling To Prevent Mitochondrial Meltdown

An international team led by scientists at the University of Helsinki have discovered that the cellular balance of lipid droplets can impact the recycling of damaged mitochondria. These results have importance for cell survival and nervous system dysfunction.

Phase Transitions In The Early Universe And Their Signals

A Helsinki research team has demonstrated how an early universe phase transition will lead to gravitational wave signals potentially visible in the upcoming satellite missions. The research results were recently published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

Dramatic Events In Demographics Led To The Spread Of Uralic Languages

Our understanding of the prehistory of the Finnish language is becoming clearer: Shifts in climate and periods of drought may have been the original reasons for which the community, which originated in western Siberia, spread first from east to west and later from south to north.

Polygenic Risk Scores Identify High-Risk Individuals In European And Asian Ancestry, But Less So In African Ancestry

A new study from the INTERVENE consortium has evaluated genome-wide risk prediction of common diseases across multiple ancestries in one million people.

Genes Can Affect Our Nutrient Tolerance

According to an international study, minor genetic differences can affect the ability to utilise the energy of various nutrients. This work shows how nutritional planning based on genetic data could promote the development of personalised nutrition for health.

Fetal Exposure To Drugs May Affect Infants’ Brain Development

New study demonstrates that in utero exposure to mother’s antiepileptic or antidepressant medication may affect development of the newborn brain networks.In the study novel mathematical methods were developed to allow future research on how commonly used drugs or other environmental conditions affect the newborn brain.

The Planet That Could End Life on Earth

Experiment demonstrates solar system’s fragility

Bacteria Control Their Metabolism When Going into Biofilm Formation

This shift in metabolism has strong implications for tolerance to antibiotics

Measuring The “Woodwork Effect” In Medical Insurance

Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.

Our Skin Cells Could Tell a Tale of Parkinson’s Without Us Even Knowing

The lipids, or fat molecules, in the skin are significantly different in patients with a certain type of Parkinson’s disease from healthy individuals, a new multicenter study involving the University of Copenhagen finds. The researchers hope the findings could improve early detection of Parkinson’s disease in younger people.

AI That Can Learn The Patterns Of Human Language

On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.

This Molecule Is Vital to Our Survival. Now We Know What It Looks Like

In order to live, all mammals depend on the function of a large molecule in our nerve cells made up of four proteins. But what these proteins look like has been mostly unknown, making it difficult to treat diseases related to the molecule. Now, an international team of researchers, including a group from the University of Copenhagen, have mapped the missing pieces.

Breathing Is Going to Get Tougher

Hotter temps = more air pollution from natural sources

Three From MIT Named 2023 Rhodes Scholars

Jack Cook, Matthew Kearney, and Jupneet Singh will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

New Publication from the Almstrup Group at ICMM in Nature

Together with collaborators around Europe Kristian Almstrup at ICMM has performed single-nuclei RNA sequencing of all major groups of mammals, including humans as well as their closest relatives, the great apes

Friend Or Foe? The Immune System Collaborates With Blood Cancer Cells

An international study coordinated by a University of Helsinki research group demonstrates that the body’s immune system attacks itself in a rare type of blood cancer. Consequently, treatment should be targeted at the immune system as well, not only the cancer cells.

The Pandemic Put University Students’ Study Engagement To The Test And Greatly Increased Burnout

Researchers at the University of Helsinki investigated the wellbeing of University students by conducting three surveys during the pandemic. The findings show that engagement in studies plummeted and study burnout increased considerably.

Large Studies Reveal Genes That Dramatically Influence Schizophrenia Risk

International research consortia have analyzed common and rare DNA variants in hundreds of thousands of people, revealing clearest genetic signals yet for schizophrenia risk.

Freedom Of Will And Gratitude Characterise Finnish Perceptions Of Happiness

‘Being happy’ is built on the paradox between the self and others, which anchors happiness to a feeling of pride in myself on one hand, and to gratitude towards others and the world around us on the other.