News about Health

More than two billion are infected with this disease. Vitamin D can help

A rare patient has made it possible for researchers to prove that vitamin D – the “sun vitamin” – helps the body fight tuberculosis.

New research project will investigate the effect of sleep extension on body weight, metabolism and learning ability in children

Many children and young people sleep less than recommended. A new research collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet will study the effect of sleep extension on weight, metabolism and learnin…

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of thei…

Newly appointed professor: Data science can save food research decades

We can potentially save decades of food research by using data science to investigate where we have the greatest chance of finding the most significant results. It is a latent game changer when we want to convince…

The proteins of Parkinson’s disease – a new project will give us a better understanding

Associate Professor Vito Foderà has received 2 mill DKK from Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project “Real-time Investigation of Protein Phase Separation and Amyloid Transition in Complex Environments”.

New project will design 3D microfluidic chips for cancer therapy

Associate Professor Anan Yaghmur has received 2.9 mill DKK from Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project “MICNANO: MICrofluidic synthesis and online characterization of cubosomal and hexosomal NANOcarriers for colorectal…

Umami is key to make plant-based Christmas dinner taste like Christmas

How do you combine plant-based foods to bring out the flavours of Christmas? A food engineer and ph.D. from the University of Copenhagen has experimented in Gastro Science Lab. Boosting of umami taste is key.

Now we understand better how cell division works. That puts us a step closer to devising more effective cancer therapies

How does a cell know when to divide? Researchers have found the answer, and it may prove significant to future cancer therapy.

Political depression

Anna Iskra, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. UCPH researchers have teamed up with Danish company…

Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener

The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude oil, making them far from environmentally innocent. UCPH researchers have teamed up with Danish company…

Professor Camilla Foged appointed as Member for the mRNAVAC WP

Camilla Foged has been appointed Member of the mRNAVAC Working Party by the European Pharmacopoeia Commission.

Top scientists from UCPH and Oxford get DKK 180 million to research obesity

Worldwide, more and more people are suffering from obesity. Now a group of top researchers has received a great grant to develop new treatment.

World AIDS Day: panel discussion and exhibition

On December 1st, the PrEPping project exhibited photographs and stories at a World AIDS Day event in Huset-KBH.

Gene targeting in cell lines

Here we apply apply our expertise in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to cell lines. We can now help you generating your new in vitro experimental system by knocking out your gene of interest, or introducing point…

Last chance to register for 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium

The registration for the 12th Uppsala University Pharmaceutical Profiling in Drug Discovery and Development Symposium is closing on Dec 21 and there are still places available. To all Nordic POP members, we also want to…

New theory about the neural network that controls walking

In an article from the Lundbech Foundation, the recent findings from the research team consisting of Rune Berg, Henrik Lindén, Peter Petersen and Mikkel Vestergaard, is presented. For decades, it has been thought that…

Newsletter from AEM

Please read the whole newsletter here. Visit by the AAALAC accreditation panel All project plans are valid for two years after which they must be renewed Information from suppliers of animals Price adjustments from…

Scientists finds stem cell network in ancient fish

An ancient fish called a ‘living fossil’ has helped researchers understand the basics of stem cells. This will further stem cell research and be a step in the direction of creating artificial organs

A successful online PhD course on the method Photovoice

The past month Y-ENGAGE facilitated a tailored PhD course intended to support our PhD students in aligning their Photovoice study designs with their particular research objectives.

Extraction of biofilm matrix for proteomic analyses - A proof-of-concept study

Project type: Master In nature, the predominant lifestyle of bacteria is living in polymicrobial communities. Most bacteria live in so-called biofilm communities in which cells are embedded in a self-produced…

Investigating anti-predator properties of bacterial multispecies biofilm communities

Project Type: Master In nature, microorganisms such as bacteria, archaea, fungi, or single-celled eukaryotes live and interact in various microenvironments. These inter-microbial interactions impact fitness and survival…

Labour augmentation with oxytocin in low and lower-middle income countries

New systematic review by Monica Kujabi et al. sheds light on the massive over-use of oxytocin in many resource-constrained settings