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Interaction between fungi and people more important than previously thought
Saturday, 4th January 2020
Most of the bacteria present in our gut and on our skin help us to combat disease. However, just as we were getting accustomed to how important bacteria are for people’s lives, another actor has arrived on the scene. ...
Body and mind
People with cancer experience a need to talk with others in the same situation
Tuesday, 31st December 2019
Social networks are important for people diagnosed with acute leukaemia. A new qualitative study shows that people with cancer especially need to talk to others who have been in the same situation.
Disease and treatment
Vaccines – an unresolved story in many ways
Friday, 27th December 2019
In the past 40 years, Danish research has shown that the story of vaccines is not quite as simple as the World Health Organization, national health authorities and others portray it.

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You can’t score if you don’t shoot
Three decades ago, only a small number of researchers talked about gut hormones. Today, many people view these hormones as building blocks for developing new therapies to confront the obesity and diabetes epidemics that are sweeping the world. Daniel J. ...
Body and mind
How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight
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How researchers plan to design better medicine
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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement
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The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer
Body and mind
The body’s cells build massive protein scaffolding around damaged DNA
Monday, 23rd December 2019
New insights into the body’s repair mechanisms extend understanding of how DNA damage can lead to the development of various diseases, including cancer.
Body and mind
Circadian rhythm regulates protein activity in the brain
Thursday, 19th December 2019
New research shows that sleep deprivation interferes with the rhythm of protein activity in the brain. In the long term, the discovery may influence understanding of how nervous system diseases develop.
Disease and treatment
Severe risk of bias in the results from clinical trials of treatment for anorexia
Tuesday, 3rd December 2019
Research shows that the findings from clinical trials on treatments for mental disorders have a high risk of bias.
Disease and treatment
Genetic needle found in obesity’s enormous haystack
Monday, 1st July 2019
For decades, researchers have been combing the haystack of human genes for reasons that can explain the global obesity epidemic. By examining the total gene pool of the world’s large populations, researchers have discovered more than 700 genetic variants, each ...
Diet and lifestyle
Central regulator discovered: researchers now striving to tune metabolism
Friday, 2nd March 2018
Obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other diseases resulting from imbalanced metabolism are hitting record highs worldwide. Our changing diet and sedentary lifestyles warn of the increasing challenges ahead. Researchers have recently discovered a protein that is present throughout the body ...
Disease and treatment
The man with the golden DNA scissors
Wednesday, 5th April 2017
A tiny bacterium has upended the world as we thought we knew it just a few years ago. It has taken 25 years for researchers to understand what the bacterium was hiding. Virginijus Siksnys, a biochemist in Lithuania, cracked the code. ...
Body and mind
Structure is the key
Thursday, 30th March 2017
All life is based on structures. And knowing these structure is the foundation for understanding life. Poul Nissen, the recipient of the 2017 Novo Nordisk Prize, has studied the basic structures that create coherence in living organisms his whole life.
Disease and treatment
Molecular cause of type 2 diabetes can also cause Parkinson’
Monday, 9th January 2017
They arrive like a thief at night. Slowly, insidiously – catching a person unawares. Type 2 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease both, in their own way, slowly incapacitate the people affected. Researchers have now found a molecular mechanism behind the development of ...

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The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer
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Disease and treatment
Vaccines – an unresolved story in many ways
Friday, 27th December 2019
In the past 40 years, Danish research has shown that the story of vaccines is not quite as simple as the World Health Organization, national health authorities and others portray it.
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Missing link found between stress and mental illness
Friday, 7th April 2017
Anxiety and depression annually cause 1.6 million to 1.9 million days of sick leave in Denmark. Now Swedish researchers have found a possible link between the stress hormone cortisol and these two mental disorders. The individual sensitivity for developing these conditions appears ...

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