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Introducing forest soil on an entryway doormat shifted the indoor microbiome closer to bacterial profiles found outdoors. In the future, interventions rebalancing the home microbiome could be used for health promotion.

The treatment of brain aneurysms has changed a lot over the past decades. Aspirin in combination with enhanced blood pressure management is now being tested for the prevention of brain aneurysm rupture

GLP-1 medications were associated with a reduced need for hospital care and sickness absence due to psychiatric reasons in a large register-based study.

The awards were presented to Heidi Linnanmäki, Immi Kovanen, Julia Lempola, Pinja Räisänen and Veera Korhonen.

Moving into the digital age is not just about new technology, but about fundamentally rethinking education, the Haptic & AI in Dental Education Network (HAIDEN) summit showed.

Tumour cells and macrophages in their microenvironment are in constant interaction with one another. Understanding these interaction mechanisms is essential for identifying new targets for cancer therapy.

Why is my colleague speaking so quietly? I can’t even hear my thoughts in this noise! Many of us fail to realise that our hearing has deteriorated – even if it impacts our work.

The application enables users to view several types of clinical neurophysiology recordings directly in a web browser.

Associate Professor Kajar Köster and University Lecturer Ilia Moshnikov, with their working groups, received grants of over 200,000 euros for research in forest sciences and linguistics.

The University of Eastern Finland opened fall 2025 an internal call for Proof of Concept (PoC) funding to accelerate the commercialization of ideas emerging from research.