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Life & Chemistry

New gene found to be involved in ALS

To try to identify the pathogenic genes involved in ALS, the Umeå scientists, in collaboration with Dutch and Belgian researchers, compared DNA samples from…

Studies and Analyses

More sick leave given to men by male GPs compared with female counterparts

The report, written by primary care experts at the University, indicates that male GPs are more likely to give male patients a larger amount of intermediate…

Communications Media

Computer poetry pushes the genre envelope

The dissertation, to be publicly defended on September 14, has been jointly submitted at Uppsala University and the Blekinge Institute of Technology.“The way…

Transportation and Logistics

New design methods promise better flight-control systems —safer, cheaper, and greener aircraft

With knowledge from many fields, it is possible to propose the right solution for the aircraft's control system at an early stage. This reduces the risk of…

Medical Engineering

New Technique Enhances Early Cancer Diagnosis Potential

In an article in the latest issue of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, Uppsala University researchers describe a technique that the journal regards as…

Life & Chemistry

Automated Microrobotic System for Zebrafish Microinjection

Based on computer vision and motion control, the automated microrobotic system is capable of immobilizing a large number of zebrafish embryos into a regular…

Environmental Conservation

Exploring Nanotechnology’s Environmental Impact: Promise or Peril?

“The jury is still out on whether nanotechnology will prove to be an environmental protector or, in fact, a polluter,” says Aleksandra Kordecka, Chemicals…

Information Technology

The use of an ‘average face’ drastically improves facial recognition

Researchers from the University of Glasgow, led by Dr Rob Jenkins and Professor Mike Burton, have developed a new technology that drastically improves the…

Life & Chemistry

Neuronal Excitation: Ceramide’s Role Without Action Potentials

This new mechanism involves molecules known to play a role in numerous mechanisms of cell functioning, but not hitherto in conduction of excitation.To…

Life & Chemistry

Shape Encoding Begins in Retina for Faster Visual Processing

It is well established that the images the observer sees are divided in half as they are sent to the two hemispheres of the brain. When a person looks at the…

Life & Chemistry

Rhythmic breathing adapts to external beat through “brain calculus”

The team, led by Chi-Sang Poon, a research scientist at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), suggests that this innate ability to…

Health & Medicine

Hertfordshire Conference: Understanding Mental Health Recovery

The University’s Centre for Mental Health Recovery which is the first centre of its kind in a higher education institution, has joined forces with the…

Life & Chemistry

How One Insect Sparks Biological Invasions: A New Study

Zayed, a recent graduate of Packer’s lab, examined patterns of genetic diversity in both native European and invasive North American populations of a solitary…

Life & Chemistry

New Mechanism Unveiled for DNA Recombination and Repair

The team has recently published two structural biology articles related to RecA family recombinases. One paper is to be published in the online, open-access…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Reptiles from Russia Had First Modern Ears

In a new study published in PLoS ONE, Johannes Müller and Linda Tsuji, paleobiologists at the Natural History Museum of the Humboldt University in Berlin,…

Information Technology

W3C Connects HTML and Semantic Web for Enhanced Data Sharing

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium completed an important link between Semantic Web and microformats communities. With “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from…

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