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  • New way to form bioactive spider silk for medical use

    Technology hasn't quite mastered the spider's ability to form silk proteins into structures. But a new technique has been developed that can form silk structures without relying on chemicals that compromise their usefulness in medical applications.
    Published Dec 04, 2017

    With recent advances, technology can be used to synthesize silk with similar mechanical properties as an actual spider’s. But applying this material to promising medical therapies for illnesses such a...

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  • Peace, equality and prosperity all depend on affordable clean energy, study shows

    Published Nov 21, 2017

    The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are aimed at achieving equality, securing global peace and ending extreme poverty – an ambitious agenda that will require a wide-range of conditions to be met...

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  • Quantum secure communication is focus of new research center node

    Gunnar Björk, professor of Photonics. (Photo: Peter Ardell)
    Published Nov 21, 2017

    The future of secure communication will be in quantum encryption, and KTH will lead research in this area under the auspices of a new national research center financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg...

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  • EU testing way to use Sun to break up plastics in wastewater

    These nano scale wires are made with a semiconductor material that can speed up the process of photocatalytic oxidation, which breaks down plastic molecules. (Photo: courtesy of Joydeep Dutta)
    Published Nov 07, 2017

    Harnessing the Sun’s radiation to help rid the oceans of microplastic contamination is one of several technical innovations to be developed by a new EU-funded project. Beginning in November 2017, a sy...

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  • Anniversary week kicks off in Dome of Visions

    President Sigbritt Karlsson, His Majesty The King of Sweden, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, Göran Cars and Karolina Keyzer in front of the fountain by sculptor Carl Milles on KTH’s campus. Photo: Marc Femenia
    Published Oct 18, 2017

    Yesterday marked the start of the seminar marathon, the highlight of the anniversary week in which KTH’s campus is celebrating 100 years. “The laying of the foundations of the KTH campus and the unive...

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  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative teams up with Swedish researchers to map all cells in human body

    Emma Lundberg, Associate Professor at KTH and leader the Human Protein Atlas’ Cell Atlas project and High Content Microscopy facility at SciLifeLab.
    Published Oct 18, 2017

    The Human Protein Atlas and Cell Atlas projects at KTH Royal Institute of Technology’s Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) are teaming up with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to strengthen researc...

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  • Sweden and Japan join forces on ageing population challenges

    Published Sep 27, 2017

    An advanced robot that can perform high precision surgery. Automated patient voice analysis as a method for medical diagnosis and individual treatment. Swedish and Japanese researchers can now start ...

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  • KTH degrees rank high on job market

    Recruiters meet with students at last year's Armada job fair, sponsored by THS, the student union at KTH. An international survey by QS shows that degrees from KTH rank high among those of job seekers.
    Published Sep 12, 2017

    A degree from KTH is valuable currency on the job market, a new survey shows. KTH is ranked 94th best university in the world in QS Graduate Employability Rankings, which measures students' chances of...

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  • An insider’s look at what goes on with proteins in a cell

    Published Sep 12, 2017

    There have been huge advances in medical science since Robert Hooke coined the term “cell” in 1665, yet the cells of the human body remain a mystery. KTH researcher Emma Lundberg is one of the scienti...

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  • Cutting-edge scientists in life sciences speak at symposium in Stockholm

    Emma Lundberg, docent at KTH, will speak at the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation life science symposium on Sept. 15. (photo: Peter Ardell)
    Published Sep 11, 2017

    Humanity’s origins, protein mapping and the neurobiology of the world’s deadliest animal, the mosquito, are some of the topics addressed by a group of cutting-edge scientists at a life sciences sympos...

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  • How humans develop echolocation skills is revealed in new research

    Published Sep 07, 2017

    Ongoing research at KTH reveals that when navigating by echolocation, as blind people do, our powers of hearing can be used in ways we never realized.

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  • Anniversary to be celebrated with a seminar marathon

    Donnie SC Lygonis, host of KTH’s seminar marathon, believes that the anniversary celebrations will attract a wide audience. (Photo: Tobias Ohls)
    Published Sep 04, 2017

    The speakers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology seminar marathon have now been announced. The marathon will be held during the anniversary week in October that celebrates the 100th year founding of ...

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  • First-ever look at potentially deadly metabolic disorder that strikes infants

    The 3D image of the protein has enabled researchers to see how the enzyme DPMS functions, and how variants of it cause disease, saysProfessor Christina Divne.
    Published Aug 31, 2017

    At the heart of one serious metabolic disorder is an enzyme whose inner workings and structure have been revealed for the first time by researchers at KTH.

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  • Researchers are one step closer to making integrated quantum optical circuits a reality

    The researchers integrated artificial atoms (quantum dots) in silicon-based photonic chips.
    Published Aug 30, 2017

    KTH researchers have taken a significant step toward enabling optical quantum information processing on a chip. A new method in quantum nano photonics was published today in Nature Communications.

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  • Study offers new targets for drugs against fatty liver disease and liver cancer

    Published Aug 25, 2017

    There may no silver bullet for treating liver cancer or fatty liver disease, but knowing the right targets will help science develop the most effective treatments. KTH researchers have just identified...

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  • Cancer survival tied to protein levels

    Published Aug 18, 2017

    Researchers from KTH have used a big data medical study to identify genes that could help doctors predict a cancer patient’s prognosis.

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  • New observations reveal Crab Nebula's polarised emissions for first time

    Despite being one of the most studied objects in the heavens, the Crab Nebula still is not entirely understood. New research at KTH will help scientists get a more complete picture of this mysterious object. (Photo: NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI)
    Published Aug 10, 2017

    Since it was first observed little more than a thousand years ago, the Crab Nebula has been studied by generations of astronomers. Yet new observations by researchers at KTH show this “cosmic lighthou...

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  • Mistaken antibodies may have led cancer research down a 20-year dead end

    A closeup look at four cancerous tissues shows no estrogen receptor beta (ERS2) in the breast tumor (lower left), nor in one of two samples of granulosa cell tumors (top right). Arrows point to the ERS2 in another granulosa tumor sample (upper left) and a thyroid tumor (lower right). (Image courtesy of the Human Protein Atlas)
    Published Jun 15, 2017

    For nearly two decades researchers have sought a way to target an estrogen receptor in the hope they could improve breast cancer survival, but an article published today in Nature Communications conte...

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  • Artist Jonas Gardell is awarded KTH Great Prize

    Jonas Gardell, the recipient of KTH's 2017 Great Prize. (Photo: Thron Ullberg)
    Published Jun 14, 2017

    Swedish author, playwright, comedian and artist Jonas Gardell was named as this year’s recipient of the KTH Stora Pris (Great Prize). Gardell has worked on behalf of the disenfranchised for many years...

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  • Tool to reduce work related injuries available free

    According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the cost of work-related upper body musculoskeletal disorders amounts to somewhere between 0.5% and 2% of Gross National Product. (Photo: Joakim Nordengel)
    Published Jun 14, 2017

    Employers can reduce the costs of occupational musculoskeletal disorders by using a free online risk management tool created by ergonomic researchers at KTH.

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