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Less violence but uncertain future in Afghanistan
11 oktober 2021
The civil war in Afghanistan has been one of the world’s longest and bloodiest conflicts. Since the Taliban took power on 15 August, the situation ...
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Designing tomorrow’s human spare parts
11 oktober 2021
Age, injury or disease: regardless of the cause, there is a growing need for treatments to replace bone and other body parts. Researchers at Uppsal...
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T-cell tests unreliable in establishing previous COVID-19
08 oktober 2021
Can T-cell tests be used to determine whether people have had COVID-19? Scientists at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet have jointly ana...
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Quadricentennial Exhibition at Carolina Rediviva
08 oktober 2021
Are you interested in the 400-year history of Uppsala University Library? If so, why not visit the new temporary exhibition at Carolina Rediviva, w...
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University Library enters its fifth century
08 oktober 2021
“The Library’s normal situation has been one of constant change and development, although outsiders haven’t always been at all aware of this,” writ...
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Uppsala University receives funding for research infrastructures
07 oktober 2021
The Swedish Research Council has granted funding for Swedish and international research infrastructures of national interest. Five of the funded re...
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Health effects of sleep deprivation
07 oktober 2021
“How have you been sleeping?” When doctors meet their patients, the question should be routine, says Jonathan Cedernaes, whose research concerns th...
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The role of diet in the rise of modern shark communities
06 oktober 2021
The availability of prey and the ability to adapt to changing environments played key roles in the evolution of sharks. A new study, in which over ...
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Grand research prize to Joachim Burman
06 oktober 2021
Joachim Burman receives the Bjarne Ahlström Minnesfond’s Award 2021 for research in clinical neurology – especially inflammatory mechanisms that af...
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SEK 25 million to ENABLE-2 and continued development of new antibiotics
06 oktober 2021
ENABLE, the EU initiative for antibiotic development led by Uppsala University, has received SEK 25 million from the Swedish Research Council to st...
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Björkén Prize goes to Kristina Edström
05 oktober 2021
Professor Kristina Edström has been awarded the 2021 Björkén Prize, one of Uppsala University’s most prestigious scientific prizes for preeminent r...
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Big Science brings together industry and academia
05 oktober 2021
Uppsala University’s Academic-Industry Meeting Day (AIMday) has launched a raft of successful investments in Big Science. “The meeting between indu...
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Celebrating peace and conflict research in Uppsala
05 oktober 2021
Peace and conflict research first began at Uppsala University 50 years ago. We will be celebrating this anniversary with a symposium in the Univers...
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High time for Sweden’s schoolchildren to become energy researchers
05 oktober 2021
The project Energy Researchers is now underway, offering pupils between the ages of 10 and 15 the opportunity to participate in real research. By i...
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Honoured with his own midge species
05 oktober 2021
Hello to Per Alström, researcher at the Department of Ecology and Genetics. You’ve had a midge named after you. Congratulations! How come?
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Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes receives the Rune Lönngren Prize
04 oktober 2021
Margareta Hammarlund-Udenaes, Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Pharmacy, is awarded the Rune Lönngren Prize 2021 by the Swedish Pharmaceutical S...
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Robotised laboratory new resource in Swedish pharmaceutical research
04 oktober 2021
With the recruitment of Ola Spjuth's research environment for Pharmaceutical bioinformatics, the national infrastructure Chemical Biology Consortiu...
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Innovation environment to improve antibiotic therapy
01 oktober 2021
A new innovation environment for precision health is under construction in Uppsala. Made possible by a five-year grant from Vinnova, the new innova...
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Looking for technosignatures from other civilisations
30 september 2021
Hello to Erik Zackrisson, Associate Professor (Docent) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, whose research project consists in searching for...
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Solutions when sustainable energy systems are expensive
29 september 2021
Neighbourhoods and parts of society that are climate-smart are often quite expensive today. As a result, a distinction is made between those who ca...