These findings, which were published today in www.jci.org/articles/vie... are now being shared internationally, and will enable doctors to provide more informed treatment options to their patients.

Using a new technique which our researchers developed, they revealed which of 54 different genetic variants of the BRCA2 gene found worldwide are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer.

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And, we aren’t the only ones who think this is worth sharing 🎥 To mark this important step in the fight against ovarian cancer, a crew from hashtag#DR1 came to visit our labs, to learn more and capture some exciting footage to share this news with the world this week.

This coalition also includes key figures from Tyks Turku University Hospital, the University of Helsinki @helsinki.fi and the Auria Biobank.

This work has taken many years of dedication, and today that hard work has been marked with the launch of the OvaCure collection which will make these 3-dimensional cell cultures available to all researchers.

We are proud to share that Assistant Professor Wojciech Senkowski @wojtsen.bsky.social from Professor Krister Wennerberg’s lab has developed methods to culture ovarian cancer organoids in the lab, using samples collected from patient biopsy tissue.

Ovarian cancer is responsible for the deaths of over 200,000 women per year, and the diagnosis rate is expected to increase over the next 25 years. To address this challenge, researchers need better ways to study this important disease in the lab.