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In cases of severe infection, identifying the correct antibiotic – and doing so quickly – can be a matter of life and death. At Uppsala University ...

A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130...

Due to current circumstances, the University Management and the faculties have jointly decided to cancel the Conferment Ceremony on Friday 13 Novem...

Over the past decade, more and more biopharmaceuticals have been developed for anti-cancer immunotherapy. Sara Mangsbo is actively contributing to ...

Behavioural differences between wild and domestic rabbits are striking as Charles Darwin described in "On the Origin of Species". An international ...

In Alzheimer’s disease, a protein (peptide) forms clumps in the brain and causes sufferers to lose their memory. In a recently published article, a...

With a new and more accurate computational model for how the drug rosuvastatin (Crestor) is taken up and eliminated in the liver, researchers at Up...

An online healthcare programme has proven to improve symptoms of depression in cancer patients. The programme was developed and tested by researche...

Blood and lymph vessels in the body’s organs look different depending on their function. In a new project, Lena Claesson-Welsh at Uppsala Universit...

Using a home-grown filamentous fungus, Mikael Hedeland, professor of analytical pharmaceutical chemistry, managed to expose four medalist guilty of...

Alzheimer’s disease makes up about 60 per cent of all cases of dementia. There is still no cure or treatment that can slow the progression of the d...

In the winter of 2020, a novel robotised laboratory for cell profiling will open at Uppsala's Biomedical Centre – a high-tech facility ready to del...

Uppsala University and the Uppsala Region are launching a joint research project aimed at surveying, preventing and reducing the spread of COVID-19...

Reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia and stroke, better sleep, reduced anxiety and relief of aches and pains. There is much to suggest ...

Using biomedical analyses, a new algorithm, and patients’ preferences, researchers in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Finland and Sweden will spend ...

Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the clos...

Professors Lena Claesson-Welsh and Leif Andersson have received grants for research projects on the formation of blood and lymphatic vessels and on...

Every third patient with severe kidney failure and receiving dialysis is fluid overloaded after dialysis treatment. Jenny Stenberg has developed a ...

Soluble ligands have growing interest as drug targets. A new study by Helgi Schiöth's research group in functional pharmacology at Uppsala Universi...

Vice-Rector Mats Larhed talks about who he is, what a vice-rector does and what he wants to do the next three years.