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Patients who attend ‘Heart School’, as almost every patient in Sweden is invited to do after a first heart attack, live longer than non-participati...

Densification of cities causes increased traffic and less space for playgrounds, schoolyards and spontaneous play. This has a negative effect on ch...

Shafqat Ahmad, researcher at Uppsala University, will receive the Rising Star Award during the European diabetes conference EASD in Barcelona start...

A comprehensive study from Uppsala University, with over 325,000 participants, shows that deep belly fat is a major contributing risk factor for de...

Now there is an opportunity to become a mentor for researchers who want to take their research beyond academia. The Mentor4Research programme is lo...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now announced which researchers have been awarded ERC Starting Grants in the 2019 call. A total of EUR 621 ...

Reference reagents are important in diagnostics and care of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In a new study, an international team...

Hello there, Patrik Juslin, Professor of Psychology. You’ve written a book on the psychology of music, summarising 20 years’ research. What kinds o...

International scholarship holders will be welcomed to Uppsala University at a reception at the University Main Building on 12 September.

A full day in the University Main Building in Uppsala marked the beginning of the semester for all new students from near and far. A welcome was ex...

On 29 September Museum Gustavianum closes for a planned renovation. The main aim of the renovation is to improve the indoor climate and to expand t...

A new study examines the historical and genetic origins of the White Plymouth Rock chicken, an important contributor to today’s meat chickens (broi...

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, reports that a single amino acid change in the li...

Modern flamingoes employ filter feeding and their feces are, as a result, rich in remains of microscopically-small aquatic prey. Very similar conte...

There is a growing demand for diagnostic markers for early disease detection and prognosis. Exosomes are potential biomarkers for cancer progressio...

Diabetes is among our major public health issues, an endemic and thus far incurable disease that is gaining ground worldwide. In the quest for a cu...

Hi, Helena Danielson, professor of biochemistry and this year’s recipient of Hjärnäpplet, the innovation prize at Uppsala University. The explanato...

In large parts of Bangladesh, obtaining safe drinking water is a constant challenge. A research group from Uppsala University and the University of...

Over 1,300 people are diagnosed with brain cancer in Sweden each year. Now an international collaboration of researchers from Wales, USA and Uppsal...

Is it possible to pursue elite sports and study at the same time? We asked Uppsala students Lina Sjöberg, double mini-trampoline world champion, an...

The problem of access to safe drinking water in most parts of Bangladesh is a persistent challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Uppsala Universi...

The prize committee for the faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at Uppsala University has awarded Alkistis Skalkidou, a professor at the Department ...

The Swedish Government has appointed a new Research Advisory Committee to consult on a number of issues, including drafting a new research policy b...

Long-lived mushrooms that grow in ‘fairy rings’ accumulate surprisingly few mutations over time. This finding indicates that their protection again...

In a new study from SciLifeLab at Uppsala University, researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely ex...

Lina Bergman, Anahita Hamidi, Henrik Isackson, Mark Richards, Gull Rukh, Xiao Tan and Johan Virhammar at Uppsala University have been honoured by t...

The philosopher Pär Segerdahl has been the editor of the Ethics Blog for seven years. He describes blogging as a way to supplement public debate wi...

Soon we will be able to replace fossil fuels with a carbon-neutral product created from solar energy, carbon dioxide and water. Researchers at Upps...

The Uppsala University Innovation Prize ‘Hjärnäpplet’ for the outstanding transfer of knowledge has been awarded to Helena Danielson, Professor of ...

Uppsala University is making a major investment in new study programmes in the field of tomorrow’s technologies, with eight new programmes beginnin...

Mummies, dinosaurs, beautiful art, plants from all over the world and several hundred-year-old books... Uppsala University has unique collections o...

The majority of women who undergo surgery for suspected ovarian cancer do not have cancer. A novel blood test developed by researchers at Uppsala U...

Carolina Rediviva has long been a treasure chamber for researchers and others interested in history. It holds one of Sweden’s largest collections o...

Hi there! Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell at the Department of Mathematics, one of the organizers of the international String-Math conference in the Un...

During the spring semester, groups of students from Uppsala University had the chance to utilise the Testa Center at GE Healthcare’s facility as pa...

What’s needed to give girls in East Africa the opportunity to study science at university level? Well, one way is to hold a summer school at Uppsal...

Today, between 10,000 and 40,000 people in Sweden are suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME. In the search for a cure for the complex dise...

Maria Grahn-Farley, Associate Professor in Public Law at the Department of Law, has won the annual course literature prize from the publisher Stude...

Lena Rydholm, professor of Chinese at Uppsala University’s Department of Linguistics and Philology, has been elected to the Royal Swedish Academy o...

Fuck is probably the most widespread profanity in the world. In the Nordic languages, fuck has become a well-established part of the vocabulary, wh...

On Sunday, 30 June, six seminars on sustainability and urbanisation focusing on India and Sweden will take place in Almedalen. To find out more, we...

Patients favour eHealth records more than healthcare professionals did before online patient medical records were introduced. A research group at U...

New data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University shows that in 2018 the number of fatalities in organised violence reache...

One key question in evolutionary biology is how novel genes arise and develop. Swedish researchers now show how new genes and functions that are ad...

Peter Wallensteen, senior professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, has been awarded the James A. Burns, C....

In a new thesis in human geography, Erik Hansson analyses Swedish society’s reactions to the presence of begging European citizens. The thesis cove...

The winners of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards teach subjects connected with history, peace and conflict research, medicinal chemistry an...

Knowledge about what happens in the brain during anxiety is increasing. Which signal substances are involved? And why are young people more likely ...

Joscha Legewie is awarded the Hans L. Zetterberg prize for his innovative studies within classic and central fields in sociology, including, race, ...

What happens when the densification of cities increases while more and more green areas disappear? At this year’s national conference on housing, B...