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Adding "Add to calendar" buttons for multiple targets (Google, Outlook, iCal) to an email invitation

July 11, 2026 • 4 min read • Technology

Adding “Add to calendar” buttons for multiple targets (Google, Outlook, iCal) to an email invitation

It is surprising that an "Add-to-calendar button" functionality is missing from all the large email clients.
Inauguration of the new professors

May 28, 2026 • 1 min read • Inauguration

Inauguration of the new professors

We - the new professors in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki - gave our inaugural lectures yesterday!
Angiogenic doping - doable and difficult to detect

May 21, 2026 • 2 min read • VEGFA

Angiogenic doping - doable and difficult to detect

We discuss Angiogenic Doping - a subset of next-generation doping - in our latest publication in Sports Medicine. Our hypothesis is that angiogenic doping might already be in use without any good possibility for WADA to detect it.
Vantaa Blue

May 15, 2026 • 1 min read • Vantaa Blue

Vantaa Blue

Swedish Blue Stone is a synthetic jewelry stone made from blast-furnace slag. They were not made on purpose, but have been cast away as a byproduct of metal ore smelting during the last centuries.
JetPEI transfection of insect cells

May 12, 2026 • 2 min read • PEI

JetPEI transfection of insect cells

Getting DNA into cells is one of the basic techniques enabling much of today's life science.
Installing Zotero on Linux/Ubuntu

May 11, 2026 • 1 min read • Technology

Installing Zotero on Linux/Ubuntu

The official way to install Zotero on Linux/Ubuntu is mildly speaking a nightmare.
AI: Medically trained models, consciousness

May 11, 2026 • 4 min read • AI

AI: Medically trained models, consciousness

There are many open, freely available, and locally usable, medically trained LLMs.
I am focusing on the wrong things

April 22, 2026 • 3 min read • Artificial Intelligence

I am focusing on the wrong things

This is a rant, but hear me out.
Purifying Proteins with Äkta & Unicorn

April 19, 2026 • 3 min read • Unicorn

Purifying Proteins with Äkta & Unicorn

Proteins (and other biomolecules) are mostly purified by chromatographic methods.
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