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Active efforts required to detect violence against women
05 maj 2021
“Increasing isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic has also increased the risk for violence against women. Active efforts are needed to detect viol...
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EU initiative in digital pathology
05 maj 2021
AI is being used increasingly in medicine. To speed development, the EU project BigPicture is building a research platform for digital pathology. I...
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Phone app can help traumatised health professionals
04 maj 2021
Can structured tasks in a smartphone app cure post-traumatic stress symptoms? A method that is currently being tested seeks to help health care pro...
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Conspiracy theories characterise views in and about Europe
03 maj 2021
Conspiratorial narratives of internal disintegration and external threats affect views in the European Union and Europe to an increasing extent. Ou...
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Decrease in prostate cancer diagnoses due to pandemic
30 april 2021
During the first wave of the corona pandemic, 36 per cent fewer men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in Sweden than in previous years. On the ot...
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Molecular biologists travel back in time 3 billion years
30 april 2021
A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis...
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Welcome to a new kind of conferment ceremony
30 april 2021
It will soon be time at last for a doctoral degree conferment ceremony at Uppsala University again, after a break due to the pandemic. Though it ma...
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Student nations cooperate to secure their futures
30 april 2021
Uppsala’s student nations have had a tough time during the pandemic. Both Uppsala University and Uppsala Municipality have made financial contribut...
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Overcontrol is common with eating disorders
29 april 2021
Individuals with anorexia often have a high level of self-control, which can lead to exaggerated compulsions and rigidity and difficulty in opening...
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Socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic influence on higher education
28 april 2021
A comprehensive study from Uppsala University demonstrates that socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic effects on higher education and abstract...
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Botanical Garden and campuses closed on 30 April
23 april 2021
Uppsala University is closing the Botanical Garden and all campus areas between 18:00 on 29 April and 09:00 on 1 May. Only authorised staff will ha...
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Three causal variants of lactose tolerance in Sudanese populations
22 april 2021
Populations that practice agriculture have higher frequencies of lactase persistence-associated alleles, which normally manifests as lactose tolera...
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His blue-green bacteria could produce biofuel in the future
22 april 2021
While Peter Lindblad has served in many academic roles over the years, it is to research that he always returns. At the Ångström Laboratory, his re...
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Big ERC grant for research on the origin of land animals
22 april 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) has now distributed the grants in its 2020 ERC Advanced Grants call and Uppsala University is one of the recipi...
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Fewer suicides with less expensive medications for erectile dysfunction
21 april 2021
When medications for erectile dysfunction became less expensive and their use increased, the number of suicides among men aged 50–60 decreased in S...
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New test environment shows unknown sides of zebrafish
21 april 2021
With a new test environment for zebrafish, researchers at Uppsala University and SLU have developed a sophisticated tool for mapping multiple behav...
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Biomarkers help identify risks for COVID-19 patients
21 april 2021
In a new study, Uppsala researchers have found that two biomarkers in blood are more common in severely ills COVID-19 patients that develop muscle ...
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Continued support for Uppsala Antibiotic Center in fight against antibiotic resistance
21 april 2021
Five years ago, Uppsala University took a new step in the fight against accelerating antibiotic resistance with the establishment of the Uppsala An...
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Hope for patients with ME/CFS
20 april 2021
Meet Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry at Uppsala University, in a conversation in the series UppTalk Weekly ab...
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One in ten has problems with long-term covid
16 april 2021
Eight months after mild COVID-19, one in ten people still has at least one moderate to severe symptom that is perceived as having a negative impact...