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New research environment with focus on diagnosis of dementia
22 december 2021
With a SEK 30 million grant from the Swedish Research Council, Per Andrén, Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, will lead an interdisciplinary res...
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Muataz Lafta is Uppsala Student of the Year 2021
22 december 2021
Lafta, the latest Uppsala Student of the Year, is in his ninth semester of the Medicine Programme. He has a keen interest in the brain and has alre...
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Doctoral student with key role in Uppsala municipality's energy future
21 december 2021
For almost three years, a strategic partnership agreement concerning research in the area of sustainable urban development has been in place betwee...
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Zebrafish and AI replace some mouse experiments
21 december 2021
Researchers at Uppsala University have used AI to develop a new method to study brain cancer. The method is based on transplanting tumour cells fro...
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Small measures can be a big help for children of mothers with depression
20 december 2021
Several new studies among Syrian refugee families in Turkey and families with infants in Sweden and Bhutan show that children of mothers in poor me...
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Hunt for protein led to skin disease discovery
19 december 2021
By searching for the protein TGM1 among patients with various autoimmune skin diseases, researchers have successfully identified a separate disease...
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The University’s weather observations are some of the oldest in the world
19 december 2021
Hi there Erik Sahlée, Senior Lecturer in meteorology and responsible for Uppsala University’s weather observations, which will become 300 years lon...
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Deliberate campaign behind racial biology in Uppsala
13 december 2021
A century ago, in 1921, the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology was established in Uppsala following a decision by the Swedish parliament (r...
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Racial biology archive open for posterity
10 december 2021
The archive from the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology is still kept at Uppsala — in the University Library, Carolina Rediviva. The collec...
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Protein biomarkers protect against disease development
10 december 2021
A comprehensive study from Uppsala University shows that several disease-associated protein biomarkers protect healthy individuals from developing ...
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Leadership – a key to achieving climate goals
10 december 2021
Everyone needs to be on board if climate goals are to be reached in time. Yet, the countries of the world continue debating how responsibility for ...
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“Climate change demands collaboration across borders”
10 december 2021
“As a researcher, I thrive when I can work in an environment that combines social sciences and the humanities with natural science. It opens the wa...
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How the Sami were affected by research in “racial biology”
10 december 2021
Work at the Swedish State Institute for Racial Biology involved categorising ethnic groups into distinct races and evaluating them in relation to o...
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“My research can be a bridge between materials research and electrical machine research”
08 december 2021
Hi there… Sandra Eriksson, recently appointed professor in electricity who specialises in permanent magnet electrical machines at the Department of...
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Herring and sprat: silver of the sea that turned into sand
08 december 2021
COLUMN. “I’m passionate about understanding the genetic background of biodiversity development and I’d like our research to culminate in more susta...
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Personalised treatment of traumatic brain injury
08 december 2021
Different patients recover differently from a traumatic brain injury. Researchers at Uppsala University are now aiming to develop a new drug that c...
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New technology detects rare mutations
06 december 2021
Fast, sensitive, and reliable technology for detecting rare mutations. This is the invention behind Rarity Bioscience, a spin-out company from Upps...
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Sweden’s first WHO Collaborating Centre for Migration and Health
06 december 2021
International maternal and child health at Uppsala University’s Department of Women's and Children's Health has been appointed as a WHO Collaborati...
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New telescope to reveal the universe’s infancy
06 december 2021
Delayed by a decade but ardently anticipated by astronomers, the James Webb Space Telescope is due to be launched just before Christmas. It will en...
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Genes associated with hearing loss visualised in new study
03 december 2021
Researchers from Uppsala University have been able to document and visualise hearing loss-associated genes in the human inner ear, in a unique coll...