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CRISPR technology and a computer model can enhance the production and purity of drugs
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Fewer people living with HIV have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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Proteins reveal cancer patients’ risk of relapse

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Body and mind
Energy and motivation determine your memory
Sunday, 5th July 2020
Researchers have discovered more about how brain cells convert motivation into energy and signalling to store memories. This discovery may be used to produce drugs for people with memory loss or impaired memory or for people with ADHD.
Disease and treatment
Researchers on the trail of COVID-19: people have a civic duty to get tested
Friday, 3rd July 2020
The next phase of the global battle against COVID-19 is in full swing, and huge testing facilities to monitor the rate of transmission are up and running. An entirely new simulation system can very accurately assess the development of epidemics ...
Disease and treatment
Major antibody trial in Denmark will determine whether the immune system remembers the new coronavirus
Tuesday, 30th June 2020
The new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) will be around for a while. Occasional outbreaks in schools, mink farms and water parks in Denmark indicate that the virus has probably been tamed but is far from fully controlled. A crucial question that needs ...

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Environment and sustainability
Plants need special help to survive climate change
The current trajectory of global climate change will strongly affect how well plants can adapt to their environment. Contrary to what one might think, however, the plants in the hottest regions may not be those immediately hit hardest. Experiments in ...
Diet and lifestyle
Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing
Disease and treatment
You can’t score if you don’t shoot
Body and mind
How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight
Disease and treatment
How researchers plan to design better medicine
Disease and treatment
Prenatal exome sequencing: doctors’ experiences
Monday, 29th June 2020
Doctors in Denmark have been able to carry out prenatal whole-exome sequencing for 2 years, and the researchers are now sharing their experiences.
Disease and treatment
Side-effects from cancer medicine to advance our knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias
Friday, 26th June 2020
What happens at the molecular level when the heart suddenly starts beating irregularly? A new research project at the University of Copenhagen will attempt to answer this question by studying cancer patients who experience arrhythmia as a side-effect of treatment ...
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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Environment and sustainability
Plants need special help to survive climate change
Diet and lifestyle
Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing
Disease and treatment
You can’t score if you don’t shoot
Body and mind
How the genes of the mother and child influence birth weight
Disease and treatment
How researchers plan to design better medicine
Disease and treatment
How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement

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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.
Diet and lifestyle
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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