News and Interviews

• The end of the dead end
  In addition to excellent brainpower, the development of effective cancer medicines requires hospitals and a little help from the pharmaceutical industry. Researchers at the Meilahti Medical Campus have a plan to put all of these together. (HUB 26.4.2012)
• Breast cancer spread triggered by a cleaver-wielding protein on cancer cell’s surface - Scientists from the University of Helsinki and UCSF have exposed a cell pathway that breast tumor cells use to destruct local tissue neighborhood. Cancer cells may use this pathway to free themselves from mammary epithelial tissue architecture, to spread to surrounding tissues. (23.1.2012)
• Aiming at research work - Julia Döhla, a student of biomedical sciences, fell in love with Helsinki and found the TRANSMED Master's Degree Programme. Tuomo Hartonen, a student of natural sciences, wanted to combine physics and biology and ended up working towards a master's degree at the Meilahti campus. (12.2011)
• Cooking up success - Childhood dream of becoming a celebrity chef is exchanged for world-class genetics
  ( HUB 5/2011)
• C. elegans, the coolest worm on earth
  (HUB 2/2011)
• Zebrafish and its brains
  (HUB 5/2010)