02 August 2021

Scientists develop a novel noninvasive MRI methodology that may allow unprecedented level of stroke lesion analysis

Sirens whining, an ambulance brings a 65-year-old woman on a stretcher to a hospital ER. She is conscious, but her mouth is drooping to one side, and she is confused and speaking unintelligibly. These telltale symptoms have allowed a preliminary diagnosis on the way to the hospital: acute ischemic stroke; a blood clot has blocked proper blood flow inside her brain.
 

Open Access Policy

For several decades prices of scholarly journals have risen steadily while library budgets have not, leading to significant “access gaps” which are particularly striking in less affluent research institutions. Paradoxically, time, labour and public money are put into creating new knowledge, which is then controlled by businesses that believe that their revenue and survival depend on limiting access to that knowledge1.

22 July 2021

FAITH: cancer and mental health

In recognition of their endeavour, the FAITH project has been nominated for an ‘.eu Web Award’  in the ‘Better World’ category, The .eu Web Awards are an online competition, launched in 2014 and designed to acknowledge the best websites using the .eu, .ею or .ευ extensions, in six dynamic categories. Finalists with the highest scores from the jury will be selected as winners, and will be announced during the Awards ceremony held on 16 October 2021.

01 July 2021

If you think you’re not even a tiny bit racist... think again

People are not born racist. But as children grow up, their brains, which are association-generating machines, detect and unconsciously learn, through social interactions, to associate different groups of people to different attributes, which can be positive, neutral – or negative. And when these attributes concern ethnic minorities, negative associations give rise to racial stereotypes and racism. 

01 July 2021

What We Need to Talk About Before We Talk About Animal Testing

It started pretty innocuously. An email from my coordinator popped up in my inbox, asking if I would be available to prepare a piece for the campaign Be Open about Animal Research Day – Get on #BOARD21.

01 April 2021

Imaging prior to surgery may reduce the risk of incontinence after prostate cancer removal

Radical surgical removal of the prostate is the most frequent treatment for prostate cancer when the tumour is localised (meaning it has not spread outside the prostate). 

Methods and Models in Biomedical Sciences: Building Bridges

This workshop brings together agency, regulator, industry and primary researcher communities in biomedical sciences to talk freely about methods and models and explore common ground.

This is a Champalimaud Foundation workshop co-organised with CONGENTO and QuantOCancer projects, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and FRESCI.

During this event we will:

25 March 2021

Unpacking after the trip

For the first time, this Ar Event was available solely online, but that didn’t stop viewers from interacting on all of the available platforms - Zoom, Facebook Live and YouTube - with more than 200 questions shared with our panel of experts.  According to Dr. Bill Richards (who you’ll get to know later!), we are “Moving into new terrain… and we welcome you to join us!”

09 February 2021

Obesity: sensitivity to sweet taste predicts the amount of weight loss that will be induced by stomach surgery to treat obesity

A study led by scientists from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, concludes that bariatric surgery – that is, procedures used to treat severe obesity by reconfiguring the gastrointestinal tract –, leads to greater weight loss in patients who, before the surgery, had a heightened perception of sweetness.

05 February 2021

Imaging of a living brain can help clearly differentiate between two types of dementia

American actor Robin Williams had a neurodegenerative brain disease called dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB): a distressing disease, with symptoms in common with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). But unlike these two conditions, DLB also entails prominent mood and cognitive swings, sleep disorders, and vivid, sometimes terrifying, visual hallucinations.

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