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Joint centre for materials research infrastructure set up
21 juni 2017
The inauguration of Uppsala University’s new electron microscope, the Titan Themis, on 19 June was the occasion for a decision to be announced. Thi...
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Nordic medical prize to Uppsala researcher
21 juni 2017
Christer Betsholtz, Professor of Vascular and Tumour Biology at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology at Uppsala University, is bein...
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Major joint venture in medical technology
21 juni 2017
Technical expertise is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University will now be the first in t...
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SEK 300 million invested in systems biology
19 juni 2017
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, SSF, is investing SEK 300 million in interdisciplinary research in systems biology. Two of the nine ...
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Bone disease in Västerbotten can be traced to the Middle Ages
19 juni 2017
The special form of the bone disease osteopetrosis that exists in Västerbotten is due to a gene mutation that can be traced back to the Middle Ages...
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Birds genetically programmed to recognise their species’ song
16 juni 2017
Young birds discriminate and selectively learn their own species’ songs even when primarily exposed to the songs of other species, but the underlyi...
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"Tracing the mechanisms of enzymes"
16 juni 2017
By studying ancient proteins, we can learn why modern proteins behave the way they do, reconstructing evolutionary timelines for how new functions ...
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U-FOLD leads new initiative to combat hepatitis C
16 juni 2017
U-FOLD is a network at Uppsala University that works against dependence on pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs. In line with the World Health Organiz...
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Delia Baldassari first recipient of the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize
15 juni 2017
Professor Delia Baldassari at New York University is the first recipient of the Hans L. Zetterberg Prize in Sociology. She was awarded the prize at...
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Uppsala spectrometer “trains” Stanford’s free-electron laser
15 juni 2017
In a major international collaboration led by Imperial College, London, researchers at Uppsala University and elsewhere have found a way to facilit...
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Young people have poor knowledge of food hygiene
15 juni 2017
Annual cases of food poisoning are estimated at over 500,000, at a societal cost of over SEK 1 billion. Handling food properly is an issue of knowl...
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Four elite student athletes receive scholarship
15 juni 2017
Many students at Uppsala University play sports at the elite level in parallel with their studies. A special scholarship was instituted specificall...
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Börje Johansson awarded the Humboldt Research Award
15 juni 2017
Börje Johansson, Senior Professor of Materials Theory at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, won the prestigious international Humboldt Resear...
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New collaboration platform to optimise antibiotic use
14 juni 2017
Healthcare needs access to many different antibiotics, but some sorts are no longer profitable for pharmaceutical companies. PLATINEA, the new plat...
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Flycatchers’ birdsongs encoded in their genes
12 juni 2017
Juvenile birds discriminate and selectively learn their own species’ songs even when primarily exposed to the songs of other species, but the under...
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New discovery opens for 3D measurements of magnetism
08 juni 2017
A team of researchers from Uppsala University, China and Germany have substantially extended the possibilities of an experimental technique called ...
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Uppsala University ranked 112 in new QS ranking
08 juni 2017
Every year, the QS World University Rankings ranks nearly 1,000 of the 26,000 universities in the world. As they publish their ranking list for 201...
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Alzheimer’s researcher at Uppsala University awarded prize by Queen Silvia
07 juni 2017
Stina Syvänen at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, received the Queen Silvia Prize to a Young Alzheimer’s Researcher for her res...
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Gustavian style – a Swedish style?
05 juni 2017
Why has the neoclassical Gustavian style become so prominent in the Swedish self-image? A new dissertation from Uppsala University shows how resear...
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3D-modelling shows food residues in 230 million years old fossil faeces
05 juni 2017
Synchrotron scanning can produce high-quality 3D models of well-preserved food residues from fossil faeces. That's the result of a new study, by pa...