News on life sciences

In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University, together with colleagues in Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environm...

Researchers from Uppsala University have developed a method that helps immune cells exit from blood vessels into the tumour and kill cancer cells. ...

A drive to provide accessible information for more reliable, reproducible and efficient pre-clinical and translational research made Emmi Puuvuori ...

A major international research project has surveyed and analysed the genomes of 240 different mammals. The results, now published in 11 articles in...

Patients treated with blood pressure-lowering drugs can experience much greater improvements from a change of medication than from doubling the dos...

When the human remains found on board the warship Vasa were investigated, it was determined that the skeleton designated G was a man. New research ...

Thanks to a gift from an American donor to Uppsala University, Sweden, research into immune reactions in cases of transplantation, autoimmunity and...

The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics increased drastically in intensive care at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, this helped pati...

Thanks to a new prognostic method for detecting cancers including cancer of the large intestine, doctors could provide clearer disease prognoses an...

The number of overall fractures is higher in Sweden than in many other countries, but why are Swedes breaking their hip joints more than any other ...

The earlier infants begin to taste small samples of solid food, the earlier they eat more food and stop breastfeeding. This is shown in a new study...

Anatomical models for surgeons to practise on, patient-specific prostheses and implants, specially designed tools and pharmaceuticals... the list o...

An enthusiastic researcher, a lab experiment that was actually supposed to go wrong, and dedicated innovation support. That is the recipe for how a...

Bacterial perseverance is a new phenomenon that helps explain how bacteria adapt to survive antibiotic treatments. A group of researchers at Uppsal...

A new study from researchers at Uppsala University presents novel findings on why human lymph nodes lose their function with age and the consequenc...

In a new scientific study, researchers at Uppsala University have shown that Scandinavian wolves carry around 100,000 harmful mutations in their ge...

Men are at an increased risk of a severe bout of COVID-19 compared to women. Researchers at Uppsala University have now shown that this may be due ...

Svante Pääbo, this year's Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, created a completely new field of research when he succeeded in mapping the DNA...

Using new gene mapping methods, researchers have found connections between atopic dermatitis (eczema) in dogs and several regions of the genome. So...

The European robin’s closest relatives are found in tropical Africa. The European robin is therefore not closely related to the Japanese robin, des...