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Uppsala alumna Emma Ekberg Berry recently accepted the Sigvard Eklund Prize for her degree project on wear in control rod drives at the Forsmark nu...

Data collected in healthcare settings must be easier to use for research according to representatives of the Uppsala Clinical Research Center (UCR)...

"There are many ways of being Swedish, and being Jewish is one of them." These words set the seal on Carl Henrik Carlsson’s history of the Jews in ...

About 10,000 men in Sweden are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. This makes it our most common cancer. Over the past 15 years, great progr...

COLUMN. While every scientifically well-founded study shows that emissions must be reduced both vastly and rapidly if we are to achieve adopted cli...

Uppsala University is represented among the delegates to the global get-together. At the UN’s summit on climate issues in Glasgow from 31 October, ...

Each year, nearly 8,000 Swedes die of sepsis, commonly known as blood poisoning. Inger Persson and her team have developed the NAVOY Sepsis algorit...

Just a minute… Ola Spjuth, professor of pharmaceutical bioinformatics and co-founder of Scaleout Systems, the tech company that was created at Upps...

Sisters Bonnie and Sandy Nilhamn have made donated money to a foundation they created for the promotion of academic traditions at Uppsala Universit...

Since 1 July 2021, lifelong learning has become an area prescribed by law in Sweden’s Higher Education Act. But work on this national task has been...

Are you curious about Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard or the chief architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, Christiana Figu...

Hjärnäpplet is awarded by Uppsala University for outstanding transference of knowledge. This year’s prize goes to Professors Rolf Larsson and Peter...

How the cell can mend broken DNA using another DNA copy as template has puzzled researchers for years. How is it possible to find the correct seque...

For Jenny Larsson, Uppsala University’s Alumnus of the Year 2021, interest in the environment arose early in life. As Managing Director of Hitachi ...

Which effects did the heat wave of summer 2020 have in Siberia? In a new study geologists from Bonn, Uppsala and St. Petersburg compared the spatia...

The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed drugs as antivirals. Researchers at Uppsala Univer...

In a study published in the US journal Science Advances, a single cell type map of human tissues is presented. An open access atlas has been launch...

Hello there Professor Dan Larhammar of the Department of Neuroscience, and also chair of the All European Academies (ALLEA) Scientific Committee on...

With a new method, researchers at Uppsala University want to teach our immune system to identify tumors and create the T cells to destroy them. "It...

Hans Ellegren, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University, has been elected new Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Scie...