Research news
Show recent news on some of our research challenges: Antibiotic resistance • Artificial intelligence • Biodiversity • The climate challenge • Common diseases • Coronavirus • Democracy • Digital humanities • Drug development • Energy • The evolution of life • Global health • Human rights • Life sciences • Medical engineering • Mental health • Migration and racism • New materials • Social sustainability
-
Downward trend broken – fatalities in organised violence increase again
17 juni 2021
New data from Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), at Uppsala University, show that the total number of fatalities stemming from organised violenc...
-
A national research infrastructure in Uppsala
16 juni 2021
SciLifeLab is the largest national research infrastructure in life sciences, that was founded in 2010 by the four host universities: Karolinska Ins...
-
New technology paves the way for vaccination against cancer
11 juni 2021
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...
-
Consensus and continuity determine Swedish foreign policy
10 juni 2021
The Swedish Government was able to undertake and justify Swedish military involvement in Afghanistan in 2002–2014 by describing it as a traditional...
-
Funding for research collaborations with external parties
09 juni 2021
A WHO report on immigration detention and a study of communication in the time of the pandemic. These are the topics in focus in two of the four ne...
-
Five smart solutions for the mining industry
08 juni 2021
Five prototypes to improve work in the mining industry. They are the result of the EU project Smart Exploration, which has been led by Uppsala Univ...
-
The national COVID-19 Data Portal turns one year old
03 juni 2021
The national Swedish COVID-19 Data Portal was launched one year ago to support researchers in utilising Swedish and European infrastructures for da...
-
Vigorous political efforts needed for new antibiotics
02 juni 2021
More than 30 years have passed since a new class of antibiotics was last discovered. The world’s antibiotic consumption is rising, and the problems...
-
Meeting point for epidemiologists
02 juni 2021
The EpiHub at Uppsala University brings junior and senior researchers together to exchange experiences and methods in epidemiology. Something that ...
-
How the major Swedish forest fire of 2014 affected the ecosystem
01 juni 2021
Swedish researchers from institutions including Uppsala University have spent four years gathering data from the areas affected by the major forest...
-
New network for nuclear astrophysics
01 juni 2021
Uppsala University is a member of the new Horizon2020 network ChETEC-INFRA, or Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos – Infras...
-
The role of religion analysed through Facebook comments
27 maj 2021
By analysing Facebook comments under news posts from the country’s largest news publishers, Linnea Jensdotter at Uppsala University has studied the...
-
The attitudes of children and youth about the pandemic year and the future
27 maj 2021
We have lived with COVID-19 and restrictions in society for over a year. How do children and youth see this pandemic year? A new study is trying to...
-
Medical technology centre develops eHealth and imaging technology for the medical system
27 maj 2021
MedTech Science & Innovation is a collaboration between Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital aimed at streamlining the journey from r...
-
Complete DNA from a 35,000 years old woman sequenced
21 maj 2021
For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the entire genome from the skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived in today’s Rom...
-
New study explains how chemicals in plastic may cause lower IQ levels in children
21 maj 2021
The chemical bisphenol F (found in plastics) can induce changes in a gene that is vital for neurological development. This discovery was made by re...
-
Married in Sweden – but single in another EU Member State?
21 maj 2021
A same-sex marriage entered into in one EU Member State may not be recognised in another. The argument is often that such a marriage is too differe...
-
“We live in the age of garbage”
12 maj 2021
In the quest for a circular economy and a sustainable society, we need to transform our waste into a resource. In the so-called waste package, the ...
-
Uppsala Biobank, a resource for healthcare
11 maj 2021
Uppsala Biobank proved itself to be an important resource early on and a route into healthcare for research. Today, Uppsala Biobank’s services are ...
-
New thesis: Finery for fashionable ladies
11 maj 2021
When the first descriptions of knitting and crochet were published in Swedish, in the mid-19th century, such handiwork was described as the finest ...