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Uncertainties among writers aiming to publish
05 juni 2017
One in five people dreams of publishing a novel. At the same time, there are no hard and fast criteria for determining whether a manuscript has the...
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Infectious disease threats in focus at Uppsala Health Summit
02 juni 2017
Despite remarkable gains in health over the last century, infectious diseases remain a major threat. Alarming reports on outbreaks of Zika, Ebola o...
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Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women
31 maj 2017
Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers show that tea cons...
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Sociologist made a fellow of Gerontological Society of America
29 maj 2017
Sandra Torres, Professor of Social Gerontology at the Department of Sociology at Uppsala University, has been made a fellow of the Gerontological S...
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Children at Swedish “gender-neutral” preschools are less likely to gender-stereotype
29 maj 2017
A new study from Uppsala University in Sweden has indicated that the norm-conscious practices used by teachers at preschools termed “gender-neutral...
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Nanomaterials with potential for environmentally friendly hydrogen production
29 maj 2017
In an article in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, present a type of low-cost and environm...
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The material with many properties
24 maj 2017
The material Upsalite was discovered by Maria Strømme’s research group and has properties that have attracted great international attention. It inh...
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Winners of the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Awards selected
23 maj 2017
This year’s Distinguished Teaching Award winners at Uppsala University teach subjects in the history of science and ideas, law, medicine and earth ...
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Magnetic order in a two-dimensional molecular chessboard
22 maj 2017
Achieving magnetic order in low-dimensional systems consisting of only one or two dimensions has been a research goal for some time. In a new study...
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Better and cheaper healthcare with dry blood samples
22 maj 2017
Dried blood on filter paper stored for future diagnostic purposes – considerably easier than the present-day, resource-consuming method using froze...
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Mislocalized calcium channel causes insulin secretion defect in diabetes
19 maj 2017
Researchers from Uppsala University have studied beta cells of type-2 diabetic donors, and find that a mislocalized calcium channel contributes to ...
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Mass youth experiment about source criticism
17 maj 2017
Young people across Sweden are being invited to take part in a major research project on source criticism in digital media. Signing-on starts in Ma...
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Three Uppsala researchers awarded Royal scholarships
17 maj 2017
Three Uppsala researchers in technology and natural sciences are to receive scholarships from King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50th Birthday Fund for Science...
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Early COPD diagnosis could save billions of kronor
17 maj 2017
If 600,000 Swedish patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) had received their diagnoses two years earlier, it could have saved m...
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Uppsala student received Global Swede award
11 maj 2017
Master’s student Gbemisola Allwell-Brown from the Master Programme in International Health at the Department of Women's and Children's Health has r...
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New decrease in number of conflict fatalities
10 maj 2017
According to new data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), the number of fatalities in organised violence decreased for the second consec...
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Göran Gustafsson prizes to four Uppsala researchers
09 maj 2017
On 5 May 2017, a grand prize ceremony was held in the Stone Gallery at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. The Göran Gustafsson Foundation for Research ...
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Newly discovered malaria mechanism gives hope to pregnant women
09 maj 2017
Resistance to malaria drugs means that pregnant women are unable to overcome the anaemia caused by the malaria parasite – and their babies are born...
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Scottish badgers highlight the complexity of environmental change
08 maj 2017
In a new study researchers have found that although warmer weather should benefit badger populations, the predicted human population increase in th...
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Ancient proteins studied in detail
08 maj 2017
How did protein interactions arise and how have they developed? In a new study, researchers have looked at two proteins which began co-evolving bet...