Background Innovations for undernourished pregnant women that improve newborn survival and anthropometry are needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 3. This study tested the hypothesis that a combination ...

Background More than one third of Norwegian women and men between 20 and 40 years of age have elevated cholesterol concentration. Parental metabolic health around conception or during pregnancy may affect ...

Pharmacogenomic screens for personalized cancer therapy are the focused biomedical application in this thesis. Due to the complex relationships between targeted cancer drugs and high-dimensional genomic predictors, we have ...

Background Previous studies suggest that persistent exposure to social stress in mammals may be associated with multiple physiological effects. Here, we examine the effects of social stress in rats, i.e. repeated social ...

In the dairy breeding industry, prediction of bull fertility in artificial insemination (AI) is important for efficient and economically sustainable production. However, it is challenging to identify bulls with superior ...

The three-dimensional (3D) organization of chromatin in the mammalian cell nucleus plays an important role in the regulation of gene expression. In her Ph.D. thesis, Anna Frida Forsberg has investigated the impact of ...

Ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction increase the risk of fatal heart failure via adverse myocardial remodeling. Cardiac cell death during myocardial infarction results in release of pro-inflammatory factors ...

Organ donor shortage is a global problem, and patients die every day waiting for a transplant. In the field of tissue engineering, a major aim is to grow functional organs and tissues in the lab. Often using the patient’s ...

The European Union (EU) initiative on the Digital Transformation of Health and Care (Digicare) aims to provide the conditions necessary for building a secure, flexible, and decentralized digital health infrastructure. ...

Despite clear health benefits and recommendations, consumption of vegetables in children remains far too low. Although many studies have focused on increasing vegetable intake by children aged up to 5 years, only a few ...