2024-06-18

Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute

Marsupials Key to Discovering the Origin of Heater organs in Mammals

Around 100 million years ago, a remarkable evolutionary shift allowed placental mammals to diversify and conquer many cold regions of our planet. New research from Stockholm University shows that the typical mammalian heater organ, brown fat, evolved exclusively in modern placental mammals.

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2024-05-31

Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute

One step closer to the goal of AI-based drug discovery

One step closer to the goal of AI-based drug discovery: a new AI system can predict the structure of protein-ligand complexes directly from sequence information

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2024-02-07

Malaria scientist decodes the world's deadliest parasites

The malaria mosquito is spreading some of the world's deadliest diseases, but not on its own. It is controlled by ancient parasites that use their code language to make their host, human or animal, act in a way that benefits its survival. A code language that molecular biologist Noushin Emami at Stockholm University is working to decode.

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