Karolinska Institutet is one of the world’s leading medical universities. Our vision is to advance knowledge about life and strive towards better health for all.
As a university, KI is Sweden’s single largest centre of medical academic research and offers the country’s widest range of medical courses and programmes.
Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine.
Karolinska Institutet was founded by King Karl XIII in 1810 as an “academy for the training of skilled army surgeons”. Today, Karolinska Institutet is a modern medical university and one of the foremost in the world.
With our close relationship to the clinical milieu, a well established infrastructure and a stable financial situation, Karolinska Institutet has excellent prerequisites for sustaining high quality research and education.
A 15-year study found older adults with healthy diets aged better and developed diseases more slowly, contrary to those eating more inflammatory foods.
Mental healthcare moved online overnight during COVID — but would it hold up?
Une fois que les patients ont reçu la thérapie génique, les améliorations auditives ont été à la fois rapides et significatives.
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Pour la première fois, l’audition d’enfants et de jeunes adultes nés avec un certain type de surdité congénitale a pu être restaurée par thérapie génique.
Hearing improvements were both rapid and significant after patients received the gene therapy we developed.
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Helicobacter pylori, best known for causing stomach ulcers, was shown to block the build-up of both amyloid-beta and tau in our study.
Our study of over a million Swedish women revealed a link between difficult childhood circumstances and a higher likelihood of being diagnosed with endometriosis.
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New study raises concerns about fluoride exposure and child intelligence.
Representação da proteína p53 ao lado de uma fita de DNA. O estresse crônico pode afetar essa proteína, cuja inatividade está ligada a muitos tipos de câncer.
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Vários estudos sugerem que o estresse prolongado ou o medo podem alterar determinados mecanismos envolvidos na inibição da proliferação de células cancerígenas.
The bisexual population in Stockholm has doubled over 12 years.
Flutuações são de apenas frações de um milímetro, mas grandes o suficiente para influenciar nossa percepção visual e podem ser um sinal precoce de distúrbios neurológicos.
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Acreditava-se que o tamanho da nossa pupila era afetado apenas por três fatores - luz, foco em objetos próximos e efeitos cognitivos -, mas descoberta revela um quarto fator: a respiração