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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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VTT develops Alzheimer's determination method

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a method for analysing MR images in just a few minutes when diagnosing Alzheimer's disease.

News from Laboratorytalk, 17 February 2010

VTT coordinates extreme-weather research project

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating a research project studying the effects of extreme-weather events on the safety and reliability of traffic systems.

News from Laboratorytalk, 13 January 2010

IEA explores wind-integration impacts

How to integrate wind power smoothly to power systems; report compiling wind-integration impacts from IEA Wind Task 25.

News from Laboratorytalk, 13 November 2009

VTT - latest company news

9 November 2009 - VTT is reforming its operations, which, from the beginning of 2010, will be formed of three subsidiaries and several affiliated companies participating in technology transfer.

News from Laboratorytalk, 10 November 2009

VTT signs cancer research contract

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Bayer Schering Pharma AG, Germany have signed a two-year research contract to study the mode of action of Bayer Schering's preclinical cancer drugs.

News from Laboratorytalk, 26 August 2009

VTT centre promotes benefits of nuclear power

The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates world electricity consumption will double by 2050.

News from Laboratorytalk, 17 August 2009

VTT research group makes cancer discovery

Researchers from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku have discovered a mechanism that lung cancer cells use when spreading into the body to form metastases.

News from Laboratorytalk, 3 July 2009

'Energy Visions 2050' shows climate-change targets

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has published a book titled 'Energy Visions 2050'.

News from Laboratorytalk, 23 June 2009

Tool estimates environmental impact of premises

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Rapal Oy have developed a calculator that can be used determine the environmental load caused by various premise solutions.

News from Laboratorytalk, 18 May 2009

VTT method diagnoses heart muscle disease

VTT Technical Research Centre has developed a method based on cardiac MRI, currently in research use, to help physicians identify disease-related changes of the heart at an early stage.

News from Laboratorytalk, 7 April 2009

VTT aids embedded system development

Together with its European research partners, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has created methods and tools to support the development of embedded systems.

News from Laboratorytalk, 7 April 2009

VTT launches project to assess dietary effects

VTT is launching an EU project to study dietary effects mediated by gut microbiota on lipid metabolism.

News from Laboratorytalk, 19 March 2009

VTT and TUT develop fusion power station

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Tampere University of Technology (TUT) will jointly develop and maintain critical parts of the ITER-test power plant project.

News from Laboratorytalk, 2 February 2009

Philips and VTT open development centre in Finland

Royal Philips Electronics and VTT have opened an Innohub in the city of Espoo, close to Helsinki to generate innovative ideas and translate these into profitable businesses.

News from Laboratorytalk, 26 January 2009

Breakthrough in understanding juvenile diabetes

Finnish scientists have reported a breakthrough in attempts to understand the development of type 1 diabetes.

News from Laboratorytalk, 18 December 2008

Enerfish process makes biodiesel from fish waste

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and its partners have introduced Enerfish, a three-year project to produce biodiesel from the waste generated at a fish processing plant.

News from Laboratorytalk, 28 November 2008

VTT's Hakkinen to defend biosynthesis thesis

VTT has announced that Suvi Hakkinen, one of its research scientists, has studied alkaloid biosynthesis and metabolism in two Solanaceae plants, tobacco and Egyptian henbane in her thesis.

News from Laboratorytalk, 11 November 2008

VTT leads Minigas sensor consortium

A European Consortium, led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, is developing a miniature gas sensor to detect greenhouse gases.

News from Laboratorytalk, 30 October 2008

Oled element developed by Rolled project

VTT has revealed how researchers working in the European Rolled project have developed a flexible Oled element that can be mass produced using roll-to-roll printing technology.