Science Daily reports on InSight Technology on the 29th of January, 2014. The website Science Daily reports on how the InSight Technology has been applied to the studying of the inflammatory process that occurs in the pancreas during type 1 diabetes. Unlike other non-invasive techniques such as PET and MRI, the InSight technology enables in …
Images of the researchers in Professor Per-Olof Berggren’s group were presented an Biomedical Picture of the Day (BPoD) on the 31st of December 2013. BPoD stands for Biomedical Picture of the Day. The website is managed by the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre. It aims to engage everyone in the wonders of biomedicine. Images are provided by the …
InSight Technology was featured in the Research Report section of Wall Street Journal on the 23rd of December 2013 Wall Street Journal reports on the possibility to study molecular and cellular processes in the pancreatic islets by using InSight Technology. The report is published on the 23rd of December 2013 in the Research Report section. …
A possibility to study the islets of Langerhans in a mouse eye is reported by NyTeknik on the 2nd of December 2013. Researchers in P-O Berggren’s group have come with a solution to study diabetes progress and effectiveness of a treatment program and exercising. If one places insulin-producing islets of Langerhans into a mouse eye, …
InSight Technology was recently reported on by Swedish news channel TV4. See more: Ny forskning ger hopp för diabetiker. TV4 2013/11/28
InSight Technology has been used to show the pancreatic islets of Langerhans adapt their content of insulin-producing beta-cells to changing insulin need. The results are published in PNAS in November 2013. Blood glucose levels vary in an individual from one meal to the next as well as between meals. Variation can also seen between individuals. …
Swedish daily newspaper DN reports on the possibility to study islets of Langerhans in the eye on the 19th of November 2013. DN presents InSight Technology and its possibilities in an article published on the 19th of November 2013. Islets of Langerhans are placed into a mouse eye. They reflect the processes happening in the islets …
Swedish news channel SVT Vetenskap reports on the InSight Technology on the 19th of November 2013. The islets of Langerhans placed in the mouse eye behave in the same way as the islets in the pancreas. It opens for a possibility to study the progress of diabetes by looking into a patient’s eye. One can …
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria visited Rolf Luft Research Center at KI and Professor P-O Berggren’s group on the 14th of November, the International Diabetes Day. During the visit, the Crown Princess got introduced to diabetes and its complications, as well as to new findings, the research group’s projects and InSight Technology. Read more: Report published …
On the 26th of September the European Research Council (ERC) announced 284 senior research leaders, who will be awarded funding after the last Advanced Grant competition. The competition was carried out under the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Professor P-O Berggren is one of the 8 Swedish researchers to receive the Advanced ERC Grant. The …