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Like heading a large research programme. That is how Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg describes her role in Sweden’s Corona Commission. As one of eight members...

"There are many ways of being Swedish, and being Jewish is one of them." These words set the seal on Carl Henrik Carlsson’s history of the Jews in ...

About 10,000 men in Sweden are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. This makes it our most common cancer. Over the past 15 years, great progr...

Uppsala University has received a desk that once belonged to Carl Linnaeus as a gift from the Kjell and Märta Beijer Foundation. The formal handove...

COLUMN. While every scientifically well-founded study shows that emissions must be reduced both vastly and rapidly if we are to achieve adopted cli...

In Linköping, children can now play with eggs that are connected to the internet and crawl into a bird’s nesting box where they can hear stories. T...

Imagine an artificial fibre that can be programmed to contract and stretch just like human muscle fibres. Thin and flexible enough to be woven into...

In January, it is time to move into Building 10, the last extension of the Ångström Laboratory within the New Ångström project. The curious now hav...

Precision medicine based on molecular diagnostics is now being widely introduced in Swedish healthcare. Based on gene sequencing, it paves the way ...

Uppsala University is represented among the delegates to the global get-together. At the UN’s summit on climate issues in Glasgow from 31 October, ...

The European Union has appointed an expert group to develop guidelines and support for teachers to help them protect EU citizens from disinformatio...

This November, world leaders will meet once again to negotiate and discuss measures to address the global climate crisis. The question is, will COP...

Over one year, the University’s activities are expected to generate emissions of just over 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to ...

Each year, nearly 8,000 Swedes die of sepsis, commonly known as blood poisoning. Inger Persson and her team have developed the NAVOY Sepsis algorit...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, ...

Hello there… Ingela Nyström, Professor in Visualization. You are the coordinator for Uppsala University in the national research infrastructure cal...

The Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) has reported that Uppsala University’s quality assurance system for courses and study programmes at al...

Sisters Bonnie and Sandy Nilhamn have made donated money to a foundation they created for the promotion of academic traditions at Uppsala Universit...

In 2016, Uppsala University and NCC decided to explore the opportunities offered by increased collaboration, since when a number of rewarding proje...

Increasing mental ill health is one of the most urgent public health challenges in the world. The global meeting Uppsala Health Summit, to be held ...