Äntligen har vi fått och redovisat våra resultat! Efter ett par veckors labbande, skrivande, redigerande, skrivande, funderande, skrivande och slutligen opponering har vi nu lämnat in våra kandidatuppsatser. I enlighet med tidigare löfte vill vi med detta inlägg visa er vad vi kommit fram till. Victor har, som tidigare nämnts undersökt hur mycket aflatoxin (ett…
Flexibility. The word that you must learn to appreciate when working in Nicaragua. It is an important word, it’s essential. The past couple of days we have been working on all possible solutions to transport our blood samples from Mangua to Gothenburg. It all started with Kaisa letting us know that TNT and FedEx confirmed…
The alarm went off at 4:45 and 15 minutes later we were on our way to Nueva Guinea, in the southeastern part of Nicaragua, to collect blood samples for our project. The sun had not yet risen, but the air still held yesterdays heat and humidity. With no breakfast in our stomachs we arrived two…
Today has been a day full of impressions and new experiences. Dr Morales picked us up in the morning after having a big plate of gallo pinto (=fried rice with beans which they have for breakfast, lunch and dinner!). We drove to Hospital Carlos Roberto Huembes, which is a public hospital located in the poorer…
Hola! After many months planning and 19,5 hours of travelling we finally arrived in a hot and humid Managua, this Monday. At the airport we were picked up by Dr Pablo Moreno. We got in touch with Dr Moreno through our supervisor Kaisa Thorell. Dr Moreno is one of three gastroenterologists who works for Nicaragua’s…
Just coming back from Oxford Global’s Next Generation Sequencing congress in London I am full of new ideas and inspiration. The congress was a two-day event attracting over 400 experts from both academia and the industry, working in all aspects of next generation sequencing including clinical- and diagnostic development, genomics, RNA sequencing, epigenetics, DNA Methylation,…
At the moment we have a good reason to celebrate. We have just published a scientific article! I realize that this may not sound so exciting. A scientific article, really?? Well, as a scientist, there is no better opportunity to cheer and be happy than when a scientific paper is published. And there are a…
The more I work with research the more I appreciate the art of collaboration. This is of course a personal opinion, some people probably prefer working on their own but for me, the work in a complex field like cancer research truly benefits from combining different approaches and expertise. Therefore I am very happy to…
From rainy Managua with spectacular lightnings crossing the sky I will first and foremost try to tell you why we are here. What are we doing in Nicaragua of all countries? The reasons are several. First, stomach cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the world. Almost one million people are…
So, this is the first post of this recently started blog that will take you through the ups and downs of a research team within the field of stomach cancer research. The aim is both to show what we are doing in our everyday research but also to spread information about stomach cancer, risk factors,…
On the inside 