Rain means pain - and revival

Medicine gets personal

Recent breakthroughs in molecular medicine have brought about a major change in our understanding of the mecha-
nisms of many globally significant diseases, including cancer, diabetes and neuropsychiatric diseases.

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Green bits

Climate-saving software also saves the time and nerves of users.

HUB 2/10

Born a feminist
When she's asked why she chose her career, Johanna Kantola has an answer ready. She says that she has always been interested in gender and power.

The secret of the holy mountain
Charred papyrus scrolls led researchers to Moses’ older brother Aaron’s house in Petra.

In the shade of a rainforest
Even mistreated, rainforests manage to beguile. Students from Helsinki went to examine the strange biota of Madagascar.

Binoculars at the ready
Happy, voluntary collectors of information roam the shores and forests.

Fasinated by the brain
The Master's Degree Programme in Neuroscience seeks out the brightest and the best of the young brain researchers.

Poetry, booze and crime
Jim Thompson was raised as an American photographer but is
now known as a Finnish writer.

Back to teaching
The university of Helsinki helps immigrated teachers to polish up their language skills – to find employment in their own field.

Helping the body accept itself
For Matija Peterlin, keeping HIV under control is not enough. He wants to learn how to expel the virus altogether.

Mobile phones & a cup of coffee 2.0
It's not easy understanding humans. Not even for top-notch ubicomp devices.

"To know me is to love me"
NatureGate is an online service combining professional expertise and visually extraordinaryimages. The idea of the species identification tool could be summarised in the words of Lucy from the Peanuts: "To know me is to love me" .

Rolling Stones & DNA
The first thing the geneticist Rainer Lehtonen asks me when he opens the door to his home is if I'd like coffee. "Cappuccino, espresso or just normal coffee? Milk and sugar?"

IIslam is not a stranger
n populist political rhetoric, Islam is talked about as something foreign that has no place in Judeo-Christian Europe. But what then are we to think of the Muslims who saved Aristotle's legacy or the Ottoman Empire?

Explaining the unusual genotype
According to the most recent information, Finnish people are somewhat different from the rest of the Europeans.

A job to do for nuclear safety
The dividing line between the civilian and military use of nuclear power requires constant scrutiny in some countries. In recent years, the verification of Iran's nuclear material has created an especially heavy workload for IAEA Deputy Director General Olli Heinonen.

Heroic explorers ride again!
From the start of 2010, Markku Löytönen has returned to his professor chair after a period as Vice Rector. But there is one thing that won't change: his adventure stories about great Finnish explorers.

Helsinki way of doing world politics
Column, Teivo Teivainen

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