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Insecticide or Zika virus?
Environmental chemists are now questioning whether it is the Zika virus that is behind the birth defects in Brazilian children. Researchers at institutions such as LiU will be investigating whether the cause could instead be an insecticide against mosquitoes. "The insecticide is one of many alternative explanatory models that need to be investigated," says Henrik Kylin, professor of Environmental Chemistry.
Whose kidney is it?
Medicine, technology and research enable us to pass on our bodies, or parts of them, to other people. But there is currently no adequate way of looking at this type of giving. An act of donation isn’t over just because the organ has changed bodies. This is according to two researchers from Linköping University.
EVENTS
HURS 2016
18 March
Health University Research Symposium (HURS) organised by DOMFIL, the PhD organisation at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The day consists of guest lectures from leading researchers, presentations by doctoral students and a life-science company exhibition.
Location: Building 511, entrance 78, University Hospital Campus
For more info contact:
Liam Ward
