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Selfish genes are genes that are passed on to the next generation but confer no advantage on the individual as a whole, and may even be harmful. Fo...

In the EU project ENEFRF, researchers at the Ångström Laboratory are working on improving the radio frequency amplifiers that will make technology ...

Uppsala has been named Climate City of the Year in 2018. One important factor behind the award is the Uppsala Climate Protocol network that Uppsala...

Men's and women's ideal pictures of one another do not match. That’s the way it has been for a long time. A new thesis from Uppsala University stud...

Håga, Scandinavia's most significant Bronze Age site, is relatively unknown. But in a new book, archaeologists at Uppsala University have brought t...

Joseph Minahan, Professor of Theoretical Physics, and Maria Strömme, Professor of Nanotechnology, have been awarded the Björkén Prize, Uppsala Univ...

Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host genomes, enabling their inheritance through g...

At last the shovels were dug into the pile of sand outside the Ångström Laboratory and the construction of New Ångström was officially started. “H...

In a new scientific article, researchers at Uppsala University describe how, using a completely new method, they have synthesised an artificial enz...

Prevailing dogma in biological research holds that the cell’s protein factories, the ribosomes, function the same way in all cells and in all condi...

Today ground will be broken for the expansion of the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University. The goal is to create an innovative interdisciplina...

How do the large-scale patterns we observe in evolution arise? A new paper in the journal Evolution by researchers at Uppsala University and Univer...

Uppsala University maintains its position on the top 100 list when Times Higher Education (THE) ranks the world’s best universities 2019. This year...

Should researchers inform research participants, if they discover genetic disease risks in the participants? Yes, many would say, if the informatio...

The rise of a populist party like the Sweden Democrats in Sweden is usually said to be linked to the past few years’ refugee flows. But the explana...

Not all the votes in the Swedish election have been counted, and the political situation is unclear. We talked to Li Bennich-Björkman, Professor of...

Hello there Peter Bergsten, Professor of Medical Cell Biology, specifically experimental diabetes research, at the Department of Medical Cell Biolo...

Uppsala University retains place 63 in the latest ranking of the world’s best universities by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. In the ranking for 2018 ...

More than 100 new holders of international master scholarships were welcomed to Uppsala University at a reception with speeches and mingling at the...

Health promotion in South Africa presents challenges different to those here at home. “One difference in the process is that we work very closely w...

Professor Lars Tranvik will be awarded with The Ecology Institute Prize 2018 in freshwater ecology. The prize is presented annually since 1986, alt...

Why do some people comfortably walk between skyscrapers on a high-wire or raft the Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel whereas others freeze on the me...

A filter that purifies biopharmaceuticals of virus particles, a super glue that can be used for fractures and a transdermal patch for medication fo...

“Hello, Håkan Engqvist, Professor of Applied Materials Science and recipient of this year’s Hjärnäpple*, Uppsala University’s prize for successful ...

In autumn 2019 Sweden’s new SCAPIS medical knowledge bank will be ready for studies of cardiopulmonary diseases, and researchers in the field are b...

How does antibiotic resistance arise? In a new article in the July number of the Journal of Biological Chemistry researchers from Uppsala Universit...

After an unusually warm and dry summer in Sweden the discussion about climate change gained new force. So, what is actually happening to the climat...

A new international study shows the importance of studying historical skeletal material to increase knowledge about how viruses develop.

A new study from Uppsala University shows that many patients with colon cancer do not need any chemotherapy and that among patients who benefit fro...

In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University now demonstrate that one night of sleep loss has a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of ...

A new study by researchers at Uppsala University, published in the journal Science Advances, uses satellite nighttime light data to reveal how floo...

Uppsala University has been granted a significant increase in the number of Erasmus+ scholarships in the EU/Europe for the academic year 2018–2019....

For 20 years UU Holding has promoted the use of research conducted at Uppsala University in society. In a recent report UU Holding analysed what go...

While both the Swedish National Food Agency and the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in recent years have come up with new guidelines f...

This weekend the news reached the world that former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had passed away. Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United...

Now it is time to nominate for the title Alumnus of the Year 2018. Take the opportunity to recognize someone who have inspired you or made a lastin...

Breaking with the long-held idea that working memory has fixed limits, a new study by researchers at Uppsala University and New York University sug...

In a study published in Behavioral Ecology researchers from Uppsala University show that the same type of sperm is not always the best for all male...

Nanosized magnetic particles called skyrmions are considered highly promising candidates for new data storage and information technologies. Now, ph...

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous m...

The European Research Council (ERC) has now announced which researchers have been awarded ERC Starting Grants in the 2018 call. A total of EUR 603 ...

A new study by researchers at Uppsala University and INGV, Italy, published in Scientific Reports, sheds light on magma storage under the currently...

An international research team that includes researchers from Uppsala University and Stockholm University have identified a likely source for the h...

The workings of memory and learning have yet to be clarified, especially at the neural circuitry level. But researchers at Uppsala University have ...

An international team of scientists has used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how domestication has affected brain morphol...

A costly and desolate trek through social measures or a worthwhile rescue for Sweden? Olof Åslund, Professor of Economics, sees migration as a key ...

The U4 universities (Ghent, Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the Eur...

There is no risk of an eruption when volcano researcher Steffi Burchardt is out on a research expedition. She studies extinct volcanoes that had er...

Leading battery researcher Kristina Edström, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University, has won the KTH Great Prize for 2018. Her rese...

On 1 September, Gunilla Lundmark will take office as Managing Director of Uppsala University Holding Company, where she succeeds Lars Jonsson. She ...