NanoSight

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Av Cathrine Ramberg, spesialingeniør TRECNanoSight photo

Hei, jeg heter NanoSight og er en viktig del av laboratoriet til TREC. Jeg kan telle og måle størrelsen på bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bitte-bittesmå partikler som finnes blant annet i blodet vårt. Disse kalles ekstracellulære vesikler og man tenker de er som små signalmolekyler som hjelper cellene i kroppen vår å «snakke» med hverandre. Vesiklene kan frakte med seg proteiner og små regulatoriske RNA-molekyler (miRNA). Når vesiklene så smelter sammen med en celle vil innholdet overføres og signalet er mottatt. Continue reading →

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The Secret Ingredient

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By Søren Beck Jensen, postdoc TREC

søren6Do you experiment in your kitchen at home? In the TREC research laboratory, we experiment every day to gain new knowledge about how blood coagulation works. The result we saw yesterday shows that we could not manipulate the blood’s ability to form clots by adding a secret ingredient. Maybe we need to add more of it? Continue reading →

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Are normal results on imaging technique (CTPA) safe to rule out blood clot in the lung?

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By Nadia Arshad, PhD in TREC

Multidetector Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiography (MD CTPA) is an imaging technique used to diagnose pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lung).

Embolism - Diagnosis on the Display of Medical Tablet and a Black Stethoscope on White Background.

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From the Oven to the Dinner Plate

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By Søren Beck Jensen, postdoc TREC

We are back in the laboratory. The ELISA we started yesterday has simmered overnight and is now ready to give us a result. søren3As promised a yellow colour appears in some of the wells in the plate. Some wells are darker yellow than others meaning that some of the samples we measure contains more of the protein we are interested in than other samples. Continue reading →

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The Flavour of Lab Work: Cooking an ELISA

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By Søren Beck Jensen, postdoc TREC

Good morning, I am Søren Beck Jensen and I am a postdoc at the TREC laboratory. It is Monday morning, and work in the laboratory has already begun. Today we have to perform a technique that is called ELISA.lab_soren
It is able to measure how much of a specific protein that we have in a sample, for example a blood sample. For good work, you need good people. Robin, Ina and Nadja (left to right in the picture) are enthusiastic to see what they have in their samples.

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How does clot lysis time affect risk of a first or recurrent venous thrombosis?

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By Robin Liang, PhD in TREC

There is a continuous search for finding laboratory markers that are associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). While the focus has been mainly on procoagulant pathways that form the clot, there have been relatively few studies that

examine fibrinolytic (clot-breaking) activity in relation to the risk of VTE. Continue reading →

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