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News from Uppsala University
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2012-05-15
Food supplementation in early pregnancy reduces infant mortality
The devastating role of maternal and child malnutrition is especially prominent in South Asia. In this week’s issue of JAMA researchers from Uppsal...
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2012-05-15
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2012-05-14
Children’s brain tumours more diverse than previously believed
Paediatric brain tumours preserve specific characteristics of the normal cells from which they originate – a previously unknown circumstance with r...
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2012-04-27
From lab to people in less time
Biomedical research is making great leaps forward, but the jump to human application is still large, expensive and slow. – We need to speed up...
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2012-04-27
Rapid advances in life sciences have created fantastic new opportunities to work with life and death. But how do we guarantee that this is being d...
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2012-04-27
– You shouldn’t see healthcare as a right, but rather as an opportunity, and then we have to work together to ensure that medical research can ben...
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2012-04-27
Welcome contribution to MS research
Research on MS, multiiple sclerosis, at Uppsala University has received a welcome resource boost through a SEK 500 000 donation. It’s the industr...
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2012-04-27
How do get something to grow out of nothing? This is what the polymer chemistry team at the Department of Chemistry at Ångström Laboratory is disco...
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2012-04-27
The umbilical cord is of great importance to the health of newborns, even after they’ve left the womb. If it is left in place for a while after bir...
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2012-04-27
Digital image analysis is Carolina Wählby’s specialty. After 2 1/2 years at Broad Institute in the US, researcher Carolina Wählby is back in Uppsal...
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2012-04-27
Sven wants to crack cancer codes
Cancer researcher Sven Nelander was recently recruited to SciLifeLab. He comes from Gothenburg University. – This is really great, and I have high...
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2012-04-27
“Good research is collaborative”
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh is clearly not a “lone wolf” researcher. Of course, she has always liked to sit and ponder problems – but her truly major rese...
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2012-04-26
Genes shed light on spread of agriculture in Stone Age
One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. This week’s edition of Scie...
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2012-04-23
Donations contributes to a good study environment
On April 20 Vice-President Professor Margaretha Fahlgren inaugurated two newly refurbished lecture halls at the Department of Business Studies. The...
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2012-04-13
Genetic adaptation of fat metabolism key to development of human brain
About 300 000 years ago humans adapted genetically to be able to produce larger amounts of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. This adaptation may hav...
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2012-04-12
New life for controversial stellar wind theory
An international research team has succeeded in identifying a specific kind of dust grain in the vicinity of cool giant stars. This means fresh imp...
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2012-04-11
Titanic is an Exception among Disasters at Sea
On April 15, a century have passed since the Titanic foundered during its maiden voyage. Since then there has been a widespread belief that in a di...
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2012-04-11
High levels of phthalates can lead to greater risk for diabetes
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2012-04-09
Eggs of enigmatic dinosaur discovered
An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur...
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2012-04-05
Three-spined stickleback’s genes show adaptation to fresh water
The genome of the three-spined stickleback has now been mapped by an international research group led by researchers at Uppsala University and Broa...