News archive 2018 – University of Copenhagen

New discovery about the brain’s water system may prove beneficial in stroke

2018.06.14

Water is transported from the blood into the brain via an ion transporter, a new study on mice…

Copenhagen Health Science Partners Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

2018.06.14

The research partnership between UCPH and the Capital Region of Denmark, which pairs clinicians wit…

New forms of learning can safeguard small programmes

2018.06.01

A betrayal of joint Nordic relations, a loss of ‘irreplaceable cultural heritage’ and a ‘strike…

Study Offers New Hope for the Fight Against Genetically Determined Obesity

2018.05.30

A large group of people with obesity have a genetic mutation that is causing their obesity. Common…

Researchers discover that a power failure in your fat cells could short-circuit your health

2018.05.30

The energy metabolism of the body’s so-called brown fat cells is controlled by the fat molecule…

New Chromosome Study Can Lead to Personalised Counselling of Pregnant Women

2018.05.25

Foetuses with a specific, rare chromosomal aberration have a 20 per cent risk of a developmental…

Personal data have been stored incorrectly

2018.05.24

A review of internal drives at the University of Copenhagen has revealed that thousands of students…

Dean Ulla Wewer Rewarded for Unselfish Effort for Research in the Health and Medical Sciences

2018.05.18

An excellent researcher, a quality-conscious and unselfish leader and a future-oriented promoter of…

Royal recognition to Australian exchange students

2018.05.18

For the 14th time, the Crown Princess handed out scholarships to two Australian exchange students a…

New research shows how Indo-European languages spread across Asia

2018.05.09

A new study has discovered that horses were first domesticated by descendants of hunter-gatherer…

Researchers Defy Biology: Mice Remain Slim on Burger Diet

2018.05.03

Our bodies are extremely efficient at storing fat from food into our fat tissue. In a new study,…

Researchers Discover Connection Between Circadian Rhythm and Aggression

2018.05.02

A research team including a researcher from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences has…

Researchers “assassinate” disease-causing bacteria with virus cocktail in a model of the small intestine

2018.04.26

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in targeting and killing a single…

Sugar Control Cell Absorption of Bad Cholesterol

2018.04.26

Sugar or carbohydrates affect cells’ ability to absorb and remove bad cholesterol – LDL in the…

Sperm Cell Researcher Wins PhD Cup

2018.04.26

Anders Rehfeld from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and Rigshospitalet has won the…

Lykke Friis to step down as prorector

2018.04.24

Lykke Friis will leave the University of Copenhagen this summer. The University of Copenhagen will…

Fat Cells Seem to Remember Unhealthy Diet

2018.04.20

Fat cells can be damaged in a short amount of time when they are exposed to the fatty acid palmitat…

Margrethe Vestager named new distinguished alumnus at the University of Copenhagen

2018.04.17

EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is the new distinguished alumnus at the University o…

China needs babies

2018.04.13

Anthropological study shows a Chinese fertility industry on the rise.

Surprising Discovery: Sweet Tooth Gene Connected with Less Body Fat

2018.04.11

Last year researchers from the University of Copenhagen discovered that a particular craving for…

Weight Loss Before Puberty Reduces the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

2018.04.05

A high body mass index (BMI) and overweight during childhood increase the risk of developing type 2…

Elite researcher sets record with 200,000 citations

2018.04.04

Professor Matthias Mann from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the…

Neutron scattering brings us a step closer to the quantum computer

2018.03.29

A major challenge for future quantum computers is that you have to keep the quantum information lon…

A new dean is to strengthen research and education at the Faculty of Humanities

2018.03.26

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen will have a new dean from 1 August 2018. …

The University of Copenhagen supports death sentenced scientist

2018.03.23

The Rector of the University of Copenhagen has signed a letter to express concern for the death…

More user-friendly buildings with VR

2018.03.19

A new project by two UCPH graduate students at the Department of Computer Science is combining the…

Virtual reality reveals our eating behaviour and desires

2018.03.14

New research from the Future Consumer Lab at the University of Copenhagen shows that virtual realit…

1,000-year-old Copenhageners found

2018.03.08

In the City Hall Square archaeologists have excavated what may be the oldest Copenhageners so far.…

Elite Research Prize for Ground-Breaking Research in Cell Memory

2018.03.01

Each year the Ministry of Higher Education and Science honours some of Denmark’s most talented…

Highly specialised labour headed to Denmark

2018.02.27

The University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science will begin a large-scale elite researcher…