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Popular 18th-century medicine in a new form
05 september 2022
Hello to Nils-Otto Ahnfelt, PhD pharmacist and visiting researcher at the Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences. Together with the historian of ...
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Torgny Segerstedt Medal and Geijer Prize winners announced
05 september 2022
This year’s Torgny Segerstedt Medal has been awarded to Mikael Stenmark, professor in philosophy of religion at the Department of Theology. The Gei...
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Uppsala University ranked as second best in Sweden
31 augusti 2022
Uppsala University has dropped eleven places from last year and is now 89th in the international Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022, also ...
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Digging from the present down to antiquity
30 augusti 2022
Welcome to the Viking Age! The archaeology students, with their trowels and their scrapers, have dug past the medieval layers and made their way do...
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Sara Mangsbo receives the BiotechBuilders Award
29 augusti 2022
“Receiving the BiotechBuilders Award 2022 provides valuable inspiration and hopefully contributes to consolidating Uppsala's and Biopharmaceutical’...
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Major EU collaboration on tandem solar cells
29 augusti 2022
The development of tandem solar cells, which combine silicon and thin-film technologies, can provide more efficient and cheaper solar energy. ...
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Elly Griffiths to give lecture on our love affair with crime
24 augusti 2022
Crime fiction is a popular literary genre across the globe, and Sweden is no exception. But how did we come to be so enamoured of fictional crimes,...
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Blood clot formation in cerebral cavernous malformations
24 augusti 2022
In the condition known as cerebral cavernoma, lesions arise in a cluster of blood vessels in the brain. In a new study from Uppsala University, res...
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Anders Karlén coordinates the combat against the invisible enemy
19 augusti 2022
“As long as disaster does not strike with full force, many prefer to look elsewhere,” says Anders Karlén, Professor of Computer-Aided Drug Design, ...
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Uppsala University ranks 23rd in the world in Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
19 augusti 2022
The 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities is official: Uppsala University continues to climb in the field of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Scienc...
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In search of a sustainable food sector
18 augusti 2022
New proteins, wild berries and experimental food production. Could this be the key to more sustainable food production? The FINEST innovation cente...
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Popular summer school in Pharmacometrics continues to expand
18 augusti 2022
“This is the best course I have taken during my entire PhD,” states a participant at the Uppsala Pharmacometrics Summer School, every August gather...
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Effective collaboration enables earlier detection of drug resistance
16 augusti 2022
A new study shows that long-read sequencing enables earlier detection of resistance mutations during treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. The met...
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New technique for analysis of protein activity in cells
15 augusti 2022
With MolBoolean, researchers at Uppsala University are introducing a new method which can extract more information from cell and tissue samples tha...
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Game to help children with cancer
15 augusti 2022
Children with cancer can find radiotherapy distressing. A research group at Uppsala University is currently developing a computer game to prepare c...
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Hundreds of large habitat shifts have shaped life on Earth today
05 augusti 2022
An international team led by Uppsala University researchers has uncovered that eukaryotes (organisms with a cellular nucleus) have made hundreds of...
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DNA gives clues to clean and effective energy production
19 juli 2022
Researchers from several universities, including Uppsala University, have, by studying helical molecules in the body such as DNA, received clues as...
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Y chromosome loss causes heart failure and death from cardiovascular disease
15 juli 2022
Loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells of men is associated with disease and mortality, but no clear causal relationship has previously been ident...
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How can we communicate towards a more sustainable society?
11 juli 2022
The fact that we need to change our behaviour in order to create a more sustainable society is nothing new. Researchers from Uppsala University hav...
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Ancestral genetic variation essential for rapid evolution of Darwin’s finches
11 juli 2022
In a study, published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have identified 28 gene regions that have been particularly importa...