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Golden lustre on Uppsala’s battery research
21 oktober 2020
Kristina Edström, battery researcher and professor of inorganic chemistry at the Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala Universit...
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Antibody treatment can help slow Alzheimer’s Disease
20 oktober 2020
Alzheimer’s disease makes up about 60 per cent of all cases of dementia. There is still no cure or treatment that can slow the progression of the d...
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Self-learning machines take the step into drug discovery
20 oktober 2020
In the winter of 2020, a novel robotised laboratory for cell profiling will open at Uppsala's Biomedical Centre – a high-tech facility ready to del...
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Nuclear reactor lab session – remotely
20 oktober 2020
In various ways, the pandemic has naturally forced us to come up with new solutions. For the nuclear engineering students, the pandemic means that ...
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Just over 60,000 applicants to Uppsala University in the spring
16 oktober 2020
By 15 October, the deadline for applications to courses and programmes in the spring 2021, there were 60,497 applicants to study at Uppsala Univers...
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Urban densification can have both positive and negative health effects
15 oktober 2020
Urban green spaces and urban densification are both associated with a lower rate of mortality from cardiovascular disease. These apparently confoun...
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A tiny jaw from Greenland sheds light on the origin of complex teeth
14 oktober 2020
A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone with two rows of cusps on molars and dou...
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Black Lives Matter brings sharper focus to the situation in Sweden
12 oktober 2020
The Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Sweden are partly a question of showing solidarity and supporting the struggle of African Americans in the...
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CRUSH COVID: new research collaboration
12 oktober 2020
Uppsala University and the Uppsala Region are launching a joint research project aimed at surveying, preventing and reducing the spread of COVID-19...
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Numerous health benefits to sauna bathing
09 oktober 2020
Reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and stroke, better sleep, reduced anxiety and relief of aches and pains. There is much to suggest ...
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At the Language Workshop, students hone their texts
09 oktober 2020
The experienced student looking to fine-tune their texts, those who have been out of education for a good while and doctoral students writing their...
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Happy birthday, Uppsala University!
07 oktober 2020
On 7 October, it is 543 years since teaching began at Uppsala University in 1477. This first day of higher education in the town deserves to be rem...
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Alumnus of the Year organises humanitarian aid in megadisasters
07 oktober 2020
Worldwide, within 48 hours, he should be able to arrive on site to organise relief wherever there is a humanitarian catastrophe. Jamie LeSueur, glo...
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Gabriele Messori: understanding rapid climate change
06 oktober 2020
Heavy storms, extreme heatwaves or periods of unrelenting cold. Continued high emissions of greenhouse gases will bring about rapid climate change ...
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AI4Research project officially inaugurated
05 oktober 2020
AI4Research was inaugurated at Uppsala University on Friday afternoon. The project will gather researchers with a wide range of knowledge from all ...
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Swedish universities step up collaboration with Japan
05 oktober 2020
Emerging energy technologies, healthy ageing, sustainable aquaculture and bioinspired materials. Those are examples of research collaboration areas...
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Nitric oxide a possible treatment for COVID-19
03 oktober 2020
Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the clos...
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Collaboration model to deal with crises
02 oktober 2020
During the pandemic, UU Innovation is testing “MAYday for Crisis”, a new collaboration model for starting projects to manage the crisis. The MAYday...
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The Ten Equations you need to know…
01 oktober 2020
COLUMN. Maths is often seen in terms of a lonely genius trying to answer a difficult obscure riddle. For me, maths has never been like that. In my ...
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Two Uppsala researchers receive project grants from KAW
01 oktober 2020
Professors Lena Claesson-Welsh and Leif Andersson have received grants for research projects on the formation of blood and lymphatic vessels and on...