Nature, Numbers & Technology

WEIGHT LOSS AND PSORIASIS

2016.12.22

Weight loss reduces psoriasis symptoms

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…

dairy engineer

2016.12.14

Dairy engineer heads leading biotech center

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…

origins of agriculture

2016.12.05

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication

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…

AWARD

2016.11.21

FOOD Professor Rasmus Bro receives the first Nils Foss Excellence Prize

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…

AWARD

2016.11.21

Bekzod Khakimov received the first Nils Foss Talent Prize

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…

WHALE SHARK DNA

2016.11.21

Whale shark genetics revealed by water samples

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…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

New interdisciplinary research group at FOOD sees food science as a path to better health

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…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food scientists hunting for biological “blood trail” left by muscles

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…

FOOD-Health

2016.11.11

Food research prevents illness in infants

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…

arctic diet

2016.11.08

Earliest greenlanders had whale for dinner

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…

Pancreatitis

2016.11.08

Blood fats equals risk of pancreatitis

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,…

New times

2016.11.07

Danish research centre on threshold of quantum revolution

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…

Plant life

2016.10.31

Fossils reveal approaching relocation of plants on Earth

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.

Brain research

2016.10.18

New initiative will promote brain research in Denmark

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…

Sclerosis

2016.10.12

New project to find correlations between diet and health in people suffering from sclerosis

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…

Wild astronomical discovery:

2016.10.11

Chaos in cosmos: Stars with three planet-forming discs of gas

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..…

Biophysics:

2016.10.11

Trust fosters networking and knowledge sharing

A group of researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have examined how a communication network can arise within a new experiment called Expert Game. They discovered that the driving mechanism for...

PSYCHIATRY

2016.10.06

Get Psychiatric Help via Your Smartphone

New research into digital treatment has led to the development of an app for treating people suffering from depression or bipolar disorder, preventing readmission to hospital. The Copenhagen Center for Health Technology…

New top job:

2016.10.06

Robert Feidenhans’l resigns as head of the Niels Bohr Institute

Robert Feidenhans’l, professor and head of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen has been appointed as the Chairman of the Management Board of the large European research facility XFEL in Hamburg.

food fraud

2016.10.05

Food scientists: We can detect much more food fraud

Researchers from the Department of Food Science (FOOD) at the University of Copenhagen point out that “non-targeted” methods of analysis can reveal far more food fraud than we are currently detecting. The analytical…

Systems Medicine

2016.10.05

Systems medicine – the future approach to diseases

In his review in the acknowledged journal Nature professor and pioneer in the field of bioinformatics, Søren Brunak, gives a unique insight into how we, in the future, can acquire knowledge on our body and the mechanism…

Grant

2016.10.04

A million USD for intestinal flora research that could potentially prevent obesity

The Department of Food Science (FOOD) at University of Copenhagen has received 6.3 million Danish kroner (app 1 million USD) from the Danish Council for Independent Research to study whether you can prevent obesity by…

Genes

2016.09.30

Genes affect birth weight and risk of lifestyle diseases

Researchers have identified 60 genes that are essential for babies' birth weight and can also predict whether a child is at risk of developing lifestyle diseases later in life. Danish researchers involved in the study…

Genetic diversity

2016.09.29

Animals in human altered areas have higher risk of extinction

Human activity has already transformed the surface of the Earth. A just published Science paper shows that it also seems to reduce genetic diversity within animals - putting them at higher risk of extinction. The…

Climate:

2016.09.27

Tracking the amount of sea ice from the Greenland ice sheet

By analysing ice cores drilled from deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, researchers have started to calculate how much Arctic sea ice there was in the past. The results have just published in the research journal…