Answers on When and How the First Animals Appeared From 500 Million-Year-Old Microfossils
When and how did the first animals appear? Science has long sought an answer. Uppsala University researchers and colleagues in Denmark have now jointly found,…
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Genetic Sequencing of 240 Mammals to Help Identify the Mutations That Lead to Human Diseases
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals…
New High-Speed Test Shows How Antibiotics Combine to Kill Bacteria
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine — rapidly, easily and cheaply — how effective two antibiotics combined can be in…
Nitric Oxide a Possible Treatment for COVID-19 – Only Substance to Have a Direct Effect on SARS-CoV-2
Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the closely related…
New Microfluidic Technology for the Selection of Single Photosynthetic Cells
Novel technology for the selection of single photosynthetic cells for industry and ecosystem understanding. You might need a microscope to witness the next agricultural revolution….
DNA Increases Our Understanding of Stone Age Cultures and Battle Axe Cultural Influences
What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new interdisciplinary study, researchers have combined archaeological and genetic…
Researchers Developed New Test Method for Safer Dosing of Hydroxychloroquine
Researchers at Uppsala University and Uppsala University Hospital have developed a new method to measure levels of the medication hydroxychloroquine in patients with the rheumatic…
How Gene Flow Between Species Influenced the Evolution of Darwin’s Finches
Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridization, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common…
Physicists Accomplish Crucial Step for Advancing Quantum Computers
Physicists at Uppsala University have identified how to distinguish between true and ‘fake’ Majorana states in one of the most commonly used experimental setups, by…
Researchers Develop Record Breaking Magnesium Carbonate Material
Researchers from Uppsala University have developed a magnesium carbonate material with record breaking properties. A novel material with world record breaking surface area and water…
Examining the Genes of Stone Age Farmers
New findings from a team of Swedish-Danish evolutionary biologists show that the genetic variation of today’s Europeans was strongly affected by immigrant Stone Age farmers….