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Technology

2021.11.24

New algorithm could save lives: Predicts COVID-related intensive care unit resource use

A new algorithm can predict how many patients will need intensive COVID-related healthcare. This is valuable knowledge when it comes to prioritising caregivers and ventilators in individual hospitals. The innovation…

Cancer

2021.11.23

Molecular hijacking: Cancer gene re-programs ‘protein factories’ to stimulate cell growth

The ribosomes, the ‘protein factories’ in our cells, can be altered by cancer genes, a new study from the University of Copenhagen shows. This has implications for our understanding of both normal development and…

PLANTS

2021.11.22

Ancient natural medicine could improve cancer treatment

Plants used by the indigenous population in Australia, the Aboriginal people, to fight infection, among other things, may be able to help cancer patients who are no longer susceptible to chemotherapy.

Outer space

2021.11.22

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen’s Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies billions of light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies…

FOOD SCIENCE

2021.11.22

New knowledge about our Earth’s most important biochemical reaction: A step towards increasing CO2 uptake in plants

A group of proteins in plant cells plays a vastly more important role in regulation of photosynthesis than once thought, according to new research at the University of Copenhagen. The research is an important step…

Nano chemistry

2021.11.15

Danish chemist helps England extend lifespan of world-renowned shipwreck

Using an advanced new X-ray scanning technique, a team of University of Copenhagen researchers has helped to identify the substances quietly eating their way through the wreckage of the Mary Rose, a 510-year-old English…

The good life

2021.11.12

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

We still lack knowledge on how best to help patients with chronic diseases. Ayo Wahlberg, who just completed a large-scale study on the everyday lives of people living with chronic disease, calls for new initiatives.

New research

2021.11.12

New research project will examine plants’ own method of releasing seed proteins

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen will investigate what plants do when they have to mobilise and use their seed proteins to germinate. If successful, they will potentially be able to discover a more…

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THEME: Green research and green solutions

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Recent news

New algorithm could save lives: Predicts COVID-related intensive care unit resource use

Molecular hijacking: Cancer gene re-programs ‘protein factories’ to stimulate cell growth

Ancient natural medicine could improve cancer treatment

One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust

We prefer farmed salmon – as long as we don't know what we're eating

Schools managed to prevent increased learning gaps during the corona crisis

New discovery could make life difficult for corona virus

Artificial intelligence favours white men under 40

New knowledge about our Earth’s most important biochemical reaction: A step towards increasing CO2 uptake in plants

Danish chemist helps England extend lifespan of world-renowned shipwreck

Living with chronic disease: Three questions that still need answering

New research project will examine plants’ own method of releasing seed proteins

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