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DNA which only females have
04 juni 2015
In many animal species, the chromosomes differ between the sexes. The male has a Y chromosome. In some animals, however, for example birds, it is t...
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New tool predicts your risk of death
04 juni 2015
Researchers from Uppsala University have studied the risk of dying over the next five years. They have developed a unique health-risk calculator by...
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Origins of feathered dinosaurs more complex than first thought
03 juni 2015
It is too soon to claim that the common ancestor of dinosaurs had feathers, according to research by scientists at the Natural History Museum, Roya...
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Uppsala University to invest in new Antibiotics Centre
02 juni 2015
An Uppsala Antibiotics Centre is to be created at Uppsala University. This was announced by Deputy Vice-Chancellor Anders Malmberg at the opening o...
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“Crimea Is Ours!” Russian geopolitics and digital irony
29 maj 2015
In a new article published in the Journal of Eurasian Geography and Economics Mikhail Suslov, researcher at Uppsala University, analyzes how the an...
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Delayed cord clamping improves fine motor skills
26 maj 2015
The importance of the umbilical cord not only for the foetus but for newborn infants too was shown by Swedish researchers a few years ago. In a fol...
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Malaria testing yet to reach its potential
12 maj 2015
In a study published this month in Malaria Journal, researchers from Uppsala University and other institutions present a new model for systematical...
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How does a honeybee queen avoid inbreeding in her colony?
09 maj 2015
Recombination, or crossing-over, occurs when sperm and egg cells are formed and segments of each chromosome pair are interchanged. This process pla...
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Researchers discover missing link in the evolution of complex cells
07 maj 2015
In a new study, published in Nature this week, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that r...
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Gender inequalities exist for fathers in the Swedish child health field
04 maj 2015
Fathers in Sweden are not provided with the same opportunities as mothers when it comes to learning about how to take care and raise their children.
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A Google for handwriting
28 april 2015
To be able to use computers to analyse and search handwritten texts would revolutionise research in the humanities. And the technology to digitise ...
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Joint search for new antibiotics
27 april 2015
The WHO has identified antibiotic resistance as one of the three biggest threats to human health. Without new antibiotics, we risk returning to a s...
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The pregnancy test that changed everything
27 april 2015
Leif Wide's immunological pregnancy test was revolutionary. It was fast, reliable and simple to carry out. It was followed by a number of innovatio...
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Who's your neighbour – and what difference does it make?
27 april 2015
Who do you meet in the corner shop or at the bus stop? Whose kitchen window is opposite yours? While diversity is increasing in cities, some groups...
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Genetic variation is a necessity
27 april 2015
The Earth is constantly changing. For new species to be able to adapt and cope with the changes, there must be sufficient genetic diversity, or gen...
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The map of the body's proteins
27 april 2015
Finished after 12 years' work: A pictorial atlas of the body's building blocks; proteins. A total of 13 million images have been collected into a s...
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The advantages of multilingualism
27 april 2015
‘Multilingualism is not a problem, it's a gift.’ So says Leena Huss, linguist and research leader of the minority studies programme at the Hugo V...
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How does climate change affect biodiversity?
17 april 2015
How does climate change affect species’ abundance and spread? This is a key question in climate debate which is hard to answer without information ...
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New biomarker for uterine cancer discovered
14 april 2015
Researchers at Uppsala University have, together with researchers from Turku and Bergen, discovered a new biomarker which makes it possible to iden...
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Method refinement for MAX IV
31 mars 2015
To take full advantage of future experiments at the MAX IV facility in Lund, advanced method development is pursued at Uppsala University, among ot...