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Proteins in dental enamel shed new light on human history

Wednesday, 1st April 2020

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have studied 800,000-year-old dental enamel from our distant relatives to obtain unique insight into human history. One of the researchers says that the proteins from dental enamel can help to develop our collective family ...

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Researchers develop a database linking exercise and genes

Monday, 30th March 2020

A new database provides researchers a rapid overview of whether exercise changes their favourite gene. The database can be used to rapidly answer many questions how exercise training or inactivity affects the body.

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Danish researchers trying to make crops more resistant to plant pathogens

Friday, 27th March 2020

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen will develop a new method of making crops such as barley and wheat more resistant to plant pathogens. The research will not only help farmers but also the world economy, the climate and people ...

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Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing

In recent decades, many people have been taking dietary supplements to get enough antioxidants to reduce the harmful effects of free radicals and thereby stay healthy. A few years ago, researchers warned that people with cancer should not take antioxidants, ...

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How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight

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Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing

Wednesday, 25th March 2020

In recent decades, many people have been taking dietary supplements to get enough antioxidants to reduce the harmful effects of free radicals and thereby stay healthy. A few years ago, researchers warned that people with cancer should not take antioxidants, ...

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Mapping the influenza viruses that can be transmitted from animals to people

Monday, 23rd March 2020

When a virus suddenly spreads from animals to people, this can herald the start of a worldwide pandemic that can kill thousands of people – just as we see it now with COVID-19. An international research team based in Denmark is ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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.

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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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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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