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Conferment Ceremony cancelled
10 november 2020
Due to current circumstances, the University Management and the faculties have jointly decided to cancel the Conferment Ceremony on Friday 13 Novem...
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Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves closely related
10 november 2020
The Scandinavian wolf originally came from Finland and Russia, and unlike many other European wolf populations its genetic constitution is virtuall...
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Doctoral hat under threat from the pandemic
10 november 2020
Swedish doctoral hats are made individually to order in the same way as in they were in the 19th century. But these skills are now under threat due...
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Successful antibiotic cooperation being led from Uppsala University
09 november 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has not halted work to identify needs and uses for antibiotics. The PLATINEA cooperation platform engages academia, industry,...
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Antibodies - for better or worse
09 november 2020
Immune cells protect us from contagions and keep us healthy, but sometimes they mistakenly attack our own bodies in autoimmune diseases. There are ...
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Component testing for the EES facility can begin
09 november 2020
The first modules have arrived and work can now begin. Uppsala University’s FREIA Laboratory will test whether the new accelerator modules for the ...
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Prize-winning innovator focused on immunotherapy
09 november 2020
Over the past decade, more and more biopharmaceuticals have been developed for anti-cancer immunotherapy. Sara Mangsbo is actively contributing to ...
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Swedish and South African universities come together online to address sustainability challenges
06 november 2020
Climate, education, healthcare, sustainable communities, urban sustainability and IT security. These are the themes that will be discussed when the...
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This year’s recipient of the Zetterberg Prize announced
06 november 2020
Lisa Lindén, Department of Sociology and Work Science at the University of Gothenburg, has been awarded the 2020 Zetterberg Prize in Sociology, for...
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Invisible fungi revealed by their genetic material
03 november 2020
How can new life forms that we cannot see be discovered? Using a novel method based on looking for DNA in soil samples, researchers at Uppsala Univ...
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Gene expression changes in the brain of tame domestic rabbits
03 november 2020
Behavioural differences between wild and domestic rabbits are striking as Charles Darwin described in "On the Origin of Species". An international ...
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Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson to receive Uppsala Municipality’s Medal of Honour
02 november 2020
Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson is one of four recipients of Uppsala Municipality’s Medal of Honour for 2020. She has “worked tirelessly to strengthen ...
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New method for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
02 november 2020
In Alzheimer’s disease, a protein (peptide) forms clumps in the brain and causes sufferers to lose their memory. In a recently published article, a...
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This year’s Little Polhem Prize to Uppsala alumnus
30 oktober 2020
The 2020 Little Polhem Prize has been awarded to Uppsala alumnus Richard Hedlund for his degree project on a drone-based detection system for avala...
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New model to provide more accurate predictions in drug treatment
28 oktober 2020
With a new and more accurate computational model for how the drug rosuvastatin (Crestor) is taken up and eliminated in the liver, researchers at Up...
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Large tides may have driven evolution of fish towards life on land
27 oktober 2020
Big tidal ranges some 400 million years ago may have initiated the evolution of bony fish and land vertebrates. This theory is now supported by res...
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Online support aids in treating depression
27 oktober 2020
An online healthcare programme has proven to improve symptoms of depression in cancer patients. The programme was developed and tested by researche...
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All vessels are different – new knowledge on their building blocks can lead to better treatments
22 oktober 2020
Blood and lymph vessels in the body’s organs look different depending on their function. In a new project, Lena Claesson-Welsh at Uppsala Universit...
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Taking shortcuts to new virus and cancer treatments
22 oktober 2020
The growth of viruses and tumours can be slowed by turning off a specific gene. The researchers behind this discovery are now turning their attenti...
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AI methods of analysing social networks find new cell types in tissue
22 oktober 2020
In situ sequencing enables gene activity inside body tissues to be depicted in microscope images. To facilitate interpretation of the vast quantiti...