News archive 2016

News archive 2016

Facebook makes you #unhappy and #lonely

2016.12.23

A study from the Department of Sociology shows that the constant streem of friends' happy status…
Weight loss reduces psoriasis symptoms

2016.12.22

Weight loss has a significant and prolonged positive impact on psoriasis symptoms and quality of…
Archaeologists connect ancient Corinth's inner and outer harbours

2016.12.20

Researchers from the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports and the University of Copenhagen are…
Are all obese individuals unhealthy?

2016.12.19

Why are some overweight people affected by conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases…
How does the liver find its place in the body?

2016.12.16

New research investigating how the liver finds its place in the body during development. In a…
Dairy engineer heads leading biotech center

2016.12.14

The managing director of the research and innovation consortium BIOPRO, Jesper Bryde-Jacobsen, is…
The Earth releases more CO2 to the atmosphere when temperatures rise

2016.12.13

Understanding the Earth’s release of greenhouse gases is crucial to predicting how the atmosphere’s…
2016 Junior Researchers seek to uncover stock fraud and the motivation to learn German

2016.12.08

Four innovative upper-secondary-school students are the winners of this year's Project Junior…
New company to optimize pharmaceuticals

2016.12.07

The newly started company GlycoDisplay has discovered how to alter the properties of proteins by…
Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

2016.12.05

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant…
Danish research paves the way for new treatments of the brain

2016.11.30

New research results from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of…
Innovation success honoured at the annual commemoration

2016.11.22

The 2016 Innovation Prize was awarded to two researchers whose spin-out projects have raised…
The University of Copenhagen joins strategic alliance

2016.11.21

The University of Copenhagen has been invited to join LERU, an exclusive European network of…
FOOD Professor Rasmus Bro receives the first Nils Foss Excellence Prize

2016.11.21

The first recipient of the Nils Foss Excellence Prize is Professor Rasmus Bro, who works with…
Bekzod Khakimov received the first Nils Foss Talent Prize

2016.11.21

Bekzod Khakimov, from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, is the first…
Whale shark genetics revealed by water samples

2016.11.21

How many whale sharks can fit into a liter of water? From just a few water samples collected off th…
DNA study unravels the history of the world’s most produced cereal

2016.11.18

Genome sequence of a 5,310-year-old maize cob provides new insights into the early stages of maize…
Greenland deep sea DNA

2016.11.17

From just a few liters of water it is now possible to examine the ocean’s fish down to one kilomete…
Experienced researcher and leader to be the new Rector

2016.11.11

The Board of the University of Copenhagen has found the person to succeed Ralf Hemmingsen as leader…
Food scientists hunting for biological “blood trail” left by muscles

2016.11.11

Already at the age of 50, we begin to lose muscle mass (called sarcopenia), which increases our ris…

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