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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

Scientists remove yeast cell's sex drive and turn it into a cannabis tracker

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science have modified a yeast cell to sense the active substances in cannabis and get it to turn red when it does. The result paves the way for more actors to…

Risk and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

The study identified five key themes in the experiences of people living with chronic illnesses during the pandemic: wellbeing, normality, healthcare access, coping resources, and meaningfulness.

Multiple Perspectives, Cultivating Communities: Reflections on the NEEDS 2022 Conference

Disaster Studies is a growing multidisciplinary field that continues to produce diverse – and often competing or contrasting – perspectives on how disasters are conceptualized and addressed. The Northern European…

New gene technology is able to predict the effect of treatment on the individual breast cancer patient

How do you know whether breast cancer treatment will be able to cure the individual patient? New gene technology can tell us, and it may prove vital to patients.

Introducing Azadeh Shahsavar

Azadeh Shahsavar is a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology.

Searching the formula of happiness in times of war

Being granted a fellowship for displaced Ukrainian scholars, Iryna Ignatenko will spend a year at the Department of Anthropology looking into ‘Danish happiness’.

Learning how to grow super mushrooms, with termites as teachers

Termites have cultivated and eaten them for 30 million years. This incredible mushroom has more protein than chicken, soy and corn, but has yet to be grown by humans. By imitating termites, scientists at the University…