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Uppsala Biobank proved itself to be an important resource early on and a route into healthcare for research. Today, Uppsala Biobank’s services are ...

When the first descriptions of knitting and crochet were published in Swedish, in the mid-19th century, such handiwork was described as the finest ...

Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys’ mental health appears to be affected more if they suf...

For the first time, a scientific study is to be conducted of an integration activity involving matched meetings between established and new Swedes....

AI is being used increasingly in medicine. To speed development, the EU project BigPicture is building a research platform for digital pathology. I...

“Increasing isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic has also increased the risk for violence against women. Active efforts are needed to detect viol...

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...

Conspiratorial narratives of internal disintegration and external threats affect views in the European Union and Europe to an increasing extent. Ou...

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...

A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis...

Individuals with anorexia often have a high level of self-control, which can lead to exaggerated compulsions and rigidity and difficulty in opening...

A comprehensive study from Uppsala University demonstrates that socioeconomic deprivation modifies genetic effects on higher education and abstract...

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...

When medications for erectile dysfunction became less expensive and their use increased, the number of suicides among men aged 50–60 decreased in S...

With a new test environment for zebrafish, researchers at Uppsala University and SLU have developed a sophisticated tool for mapping multiple behav...

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 ...

Five years ago, Uppsala University took a new step in the fight against accelerating antibiotic resistance with the establishment of the Uppsala An...

Meet Jonas Bergquist, Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Neurochemistry at Uppsala University, in a conversation in the series UppTalk Weekly ab...

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...

Hello there Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt, former Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Photomolecular Science, Swiss Federal Inst...