Gone Protein Fishing: Sweden Is Building A Hub For Medicine’s Future In The Home Of Its Past
July 20, 2016
The Swedish town of Uppsala has been a center of medical innovation for the past 350 years. In 1663, the University of Uppsala opened an anatomical theatre built into the cupola of the Gustavianum, the main building on the Uppsala University campus. Inside, future doctors and also the paying public watched from narrow, tiered, octagonal balconies as professors dissected executed criminals and animals.
From the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s Cyclotron Factory
Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize and scientists today still use its offspring to get to the bottom of matter and even the universe itself.