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Exposure to certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals could elevate the risk of breast cancer, according to a new comprehensive systematic review of epidemiological research.

Can vitamin D supplementation prevent cancer, diabetes or COVID-19? Recent research has yielded both hope, disappointments and new questions.

Malting, the processing of cereal grains into malt, generates rootlets as a side-stream product, which is currently mostly utilised as animal feed. However, this leftover material has not only a high protein content, but also high amounts of phytochemicals.

The University of Eastern Finland presented Eveliina Ojala, Doctor of Theology, Maryam Samavaki, PhD, Timo Pekkala, MD, and Pasi Hirvonen, Doctor of Social Sciences, with the Young Researcher Award 2020.

The new strategy aims is to make Finland a key player in the transition to a healthy and sustainable global food system.

The aim of the new national competence network is to increase cooperation between universities, hospitals, and the business worlds and to make Finnish neuroscience know-how visible internationally.

Homes with dogs have considerably richer and more diverse bacterial microbiota than homes without a dog. This was observed in a recent study published in Scientific Reports.

Increasing vigorous physical activity reduces cardiometabolic risk factors already in primary school children, according to the doctoral thesis of Juuso Väistö, MHSc.

Certain plasma microRNAs could serve as diagnostic biomarkers in mild traumatic brain injury, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

The doctoral thesis of Emmi-Leena Ihantola, MSc, provides new insights into T-cell dysfunction and autoantigen recognition in type 1 diabetes.