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Uppsala University is among the higher education institutions jointly embarking on a big new materials research programme aimed at improving scope ...

Viruses invade our cells and turn them into virus factories. Researchers at Uppsala University, together with a network of national and internation...

Swedish universities, institutes and companies collaborate on planning new instruments for installation at ESS, the world's most powerful research ...

For the first time through experiments and theory, Uppsala researchers, together with international collaborators, have been able to measure spin m...

Primitive stone tools made hundreds of millennia ago have been found on the windswept loess plateaux of Tajikistan. How old are they? What species ...

The King Cobra, the world's largest venomous snake, is not just one species. There are at least three more, according to Uppsala University and oth...

Thanks to an SEK 10 million donation from two private citizens, a new foundation will be established: The Lennart and Kerstin Holm Scholarship Fund...

Data collected in healthcare settings must be easier to use for research according to representatives of the Uppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR)...

"There are many ways of being Swedish, and being Jewish is one of them." These words set the seal on Carl Henrik Carlsson’s history of the Jews in ...

About 10,000 men in Sweden are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. This makes it our most common cancer. Over the past 15 years, great progr...

Imagine an artificial fibre that can be programmed to contract and stretch just like human muscle fibres. Thin and flexible enough to be woven into...

Precision medicine based on molecular diagnostics is now being widely introduced in Swedish healthcare. Based on gene sequencing, it paves the way ...

The European Union has appointed an expert group to develop guidelines and support for teachers to help them protect EU citizens from disinformatio...

This November, world leaders will meet once again to negotiate and discuss measures to address the global climate crisis. The question is, will COP...

Each year, nearly 8,000 Swedes die of sepsis, commonly known as blood poisoning. Inger Persson and her team have developed the NAVOY Sepsis algorit...

Carotenoids are the underlying pigment for much of the enormous variety in color found across birds and form the basis for the colors red, yellow, ...

Interaction between the gut microbiota and the immune system is important for host physiology and susceptibility to disease, but also for the effic...

Hello there Johannes Messinger, Professor at the Department of Chemistry who is working on a new method for producing fossil-free ammonia (NH3).

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 ...

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...