Theobroma cacao, the source of cocoa, suffers significant losses to a variety of pathogens resulting in reduced incomes for millions of farmers in developing countries. Development of disease resistant cacao varieties is an essential…
Bengt Fadeel, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medical Inflammation Research.He is also the Vice Chairman of the Institute of Environmental Medicine.Prof. Fadeel is a Fellow of the Academy of Toxicological Sciences (ATS) and Member of Academia…
All mucins are highly O-glycosylated by variable glycans depending on species, histo-blood group and organ. This makes the intestinal main mucin MUC2 non-degradable by the host digestive system, but well by both commensal and pathogenic…
Parental environmental factors including diet, body composition, metabolism and stress affect the health and chronic disease risk of people throughout their lives, as captured in the ‘Developmental Origins of Health and Disease’ (Dohad…
Ann Nordgren is Professor and Senior Physician of Clinical Genetics. She received her medical degree in 1991, licence to practice medicine 1993 and PhD degree 2001 at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and became board certified specialist in…
Miia Kivipelto, MD, PhD, is Professor in Clinical Geriatrics at Karolinska Institutet (KI), Center for Alzheimer Research and senior geriatrician and Director for Research & Development of Theme Aging at Karolinska University Hospital…
I am Professor and Consultant in Clinical Genetics in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently I am the head of the Clinical Genetics and Genomics diagnostic laboratory (Karolinska University Hospital) and group leader for Rare Diseases research group…
Stress causes or contributes to a huge variety of diseases and disorders. Recent evidence suggests obesity and other eating-related disorders may be among th...