News about Health

Professor: "B12 deficiency harms young children's development – and the food relief we provide isn’t good enough"

Vitamin B12 deficiency in infants leads to poor motor development and anaemia, according to a study from Burkina Faso conducted by the University of Copenhagen and Médecins Sans Frontières. B12 deficiency is an enormous…

Mexican Master’s student to visit Denmark

Dr. Adriana Granich is a medical doctor and Master's student in nutrition epidemiology

New research to detect glaucoma timely

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen receives a grant to launch a project to identify early signs of eye diseases before they develop in the patient.

Thousands of intestinal viruses have now been mapped. And they can be used to fight antibiotic resistance

A new method developed at the University of Copenhagen has been used to identify more than 1,000 bactericidal viruses in the human intestines. The researchers believe the discovery may help fight antibiotic resistance.

Kick-off seminar in April 2022

The Rasopta Group met for the first time in Copenhagen at their kick-off meeting from 24 to 30 April 2022. A large group of partners and with Phd Students from 12 countries all over the world. It will be interesting to…

Phenomenal raw materials will get Danes to fall in love with plant-based diets

Phenomenal raw materials and ingredients are the way forward if more people are to replace meat products with plant-based alternatives and Denmark is to become a world leading producer of plant-based foods. Today, the…

Hanxi Li

Welcome to Hanxi Li - now all the ESRs are on board and ready to go. Learn more about Hanxi LI's project.

New research to detect glaucoma timely

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen receives a grant to launch a project to identify early signs of eye diseases before they develop in the patient.

Presenting Sara Sousa de Brito

Welcome to Sara - see Sara's project HERE

Varied strength-training programmes increase strength, but not muscle mass

For years, it has been assumed that variation in strength-training programmes impacts training outcomes. New research at the University of Copenhagen demonstrates that varied strength training has a positive effect on…

Julia and Manuel

Welcome to ESR4: Julia Södergren, from PLEN at UCHP. Julia's project is Microbial ecology of production and degradation of geosmin in RAS Her new colleaque is ESR 8, Manuel Thibaud Blonc. Manuel will be working from…

We have now commenced the 7th year of PartoMa seminars in Zanzibar

We are currently training more than 500 health providers on the archipelago every 3 months

Danish research group visits Mexico

Listen to interview with Mexican PI Dr. Alejandra Cantoral for a local online newsletter at IBERO

..... and to Pedro Martínez Noguera

ESR 5: Pedro Martínez Noguera; Department of FOOD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Organic and inorganic off-flavors in water and fish in RAS

Welcome to Sujan, Matteo and Fernando

Nearly there. This week's ESR profiles are: Fernando, Sujan and Matteo:

Lockdowns did not significantly affect young people’s mental health

Young people’s mental health has not been affected by the two corona lockdowns, a new study from the University of Copenhagen concludes. But in the short run, it did suffer temporarily.

Our skin cells could tell a tale of Parkinson’s without us even knowing

The lipids, or fat molecules, in the skin are significantly different in patients with a certain type of Parkinson’s disease from healthy individuals, a new multicenter study involving the University of Copenhagen finds…

Welcome to Mariana, Dhiraj and Hazim

ESR 6: Mariana Rodriques da Silva, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany: Investigation and the development of managing strategies regarding off-flavours in fish and water of RAS ESR 9:…

Battle of the brains

50 international students united under the slogan “Battle of the brains” in Zanzibar to come up with innovative solutions to East Africa’s challenges with food security and nutrition.

Danish scientists gain new understanding about water on the brain

Article from the Lundbeck Foundation. Is the drain clogged? This tends to be our first thought when discovering the basement flooded with water. And this is a thought doctors and neurologists also recognise as they seek…

Professor inspired by housewives and schoolchildren

University of Copenhagen professor Dennis Sandris Nielsen has been awarded SCIENCE’s Dissemination Award 2022 for his willingness and ability to communicate research about the broader societal perspectives of bacteria,…

Revolutionary tool could meet future pandemics with accelerated response

A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than one million times while minimizing costs.

Department of Psychology involved in new project on the ‘Big Two’

Researchers from the University of Mannheim and UCPH will lead a new project asking why the so-called ‘Big Two’ in human psychology – agency and communion – are so fundamental to us.

Octopus-like tentacles help cancer cells invade the body

With the help of the worlds best tweezers a team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen has shed new light on a fundamental mechanism in all living cells that helps them explore their surroundings and even…