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Professors Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Jens Hjorth and Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Science, are among 11 Danish research heavyweights to receive up to 40 million kroner each from the VILLUM FONDEN…

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have developed a new type of vaccine in collaboration with a Danish biotech company to participate in eradicating the unpleasant bacterial disease furunculosis amongst both…

How might Danish firms large and small make use of the world’s most powerful neutron and X-ray microscopes for product development? Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and the Technical…

Danish scientists from the DynaMo Center, University of Copenhagen, bridge an important gap that changes our understanding of the evolution of plant transport proteins.

On February 23, Professor Søren Galatius of the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Mathematical Sciences received one of five Elite Research Prizes presented annually by the Minister for Higher Education and…

In West Africa, spontaneously fermented foods are deeply embedded in the food culture and the population has a great deal of knowledge about how these foods should be produced. This knowledge has been handed down over…

Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen to take up professorship at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute on March 1st. As an internationally recognized expert and one of the main authors of a UN Climate Change…

Jens Hjorth, professor and director of the Dark Cosmology Centre at the University of Copenhagen, will receive the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology on January 23, 2017. The 5 million kroner…

Head Chef at the Nordic Food Lab, University of Copenhagen, Roberto Flore on how the lab is exploring the traditional Indonesian food tempe in a Scandinavian context. Research Intern Anna Loraine Hartmann on the…

Weight loss has a significant and prolonged positive impact on psoriasis symptoms and quality of life. The findings stem from a study conducted by Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, in collaboration with the University of…

The managing director of the research and innovation consortium BIOPRO, Jesper Bryde-Jacobsen, is educated as a dairy engineer. The education gives him a solid background for making strategic decisions, which are rooted…

Recent archaeological studies have suggested that the cultivation of morphologically wild plant species (pre-domestication cultivation), a precursor of agriculture, developed across southwest Asia around 11,600-10,700…

The first recipient of the Nils Foss Excellence Prize is Professor Rasmus Bro, who works with advanced data analysis at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen. Rasmus Bro has worked tirelessly to…

Bekzod Khakimov, from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen, is the first recipient of the Nils Foss Talent Prize. He has a PhD in Metabolomics from 2013 and is continuing building the Foodomics…

How many whale sharks can fit into a liter of water? From just a few water samples collected off the coast of Qatar, scientists at the University of Copenhagen in collaboration with the Qatar Ministry of Environment and…

In recent years, the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen has had an increased research focus on how food affects human health. This focus cuts across department disciplines, so FOOD has…

Already at the age of 50, we begin to lose muscle mass (called sarcopenia), which increases our risk for diseases, resulting in a loss of quality of life and costing society dearly. But if we easily can screen all older…

Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be…

Test pit in the midden at Fladstrand, East Greenland, with bone remains and a clearly visible stratigraphy. Copyright and credits: Jens Fog Jensen (jens.jensen@snm.ku.dk), Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum…

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that mild to moderate levels of blood fats equals an increased risk developing acute pancreatitis. It is far more serious than we previously believed it to be,…

Within a few decades, quantum physics will reshape society as we know it. This will include the quantum computer, among other things, now being developed by researchers worldwide. The Villum Foundation has provided 30…

Scientists from Centre for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate predict profound changes in the distribution of plants on Earth. The study is based on recordings of fossilized pollen. It is published today in Nature.

Five of Denmark’s leading researchers on structural biology will collaborate on a project to gain insight into the brain’s functions and diseases. The initiative is called BRAINSTRUC and funded by Lundbeckfonden with up…

Cut down on meat, leave out all dairy products and eat lost of leguminous fruit. Advice is plentiful when it comes to a sclerosis friendly diet, but in actual fact, not much is known about the subject. However, this is…

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have discovered a system consisting of two stars with three rotating planet-forming accretion discs around them. It is a binary star where each star has its own planet-forming..…