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How many children and adolescents in Denmark have been diagnosed with a mental disorder?

Researchers find the gene that makes babies chubby and healthy

The brain gets help in developing the ability to speak

Disease and treatment

How many children and adolescents in Denmark have been diagnosed with a mental disorder?

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Risk of substance use among people with ADHD is also genetically determined

Tuesday, 18th February 2020

New Danish research shows that genetic markers for ADHD also increase liability to substance use. Girls are especially at risk.

Disease and treatment

Creating pancreatic cells in the laboratory to cure people with diabetes

Thursday, 13th February 2020

New research shows how the Notch signalling pathway works when the pancreas forms as the fetus develops. This discovery may lead to new opportunities to cure people with diabetes and understand how pancreatic cancer develops.

Disease and treatment

Computer models can predict when high-risk individuals will develop Alzheimer’s

Monday, 10th February 2020

Computer models can become effective tools for making prognoses for people genetically predisposed for Alzheimer’s disease. In the future, doctors will be able to tell such people when they will develop this debilitating and deadly disease. The research can ...

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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. ...

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

The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer

Possible mechanism linking ALS and type 2 diabetes

Friday, 7th February 2020

People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Now researchers have identified a possible biological mechanism.

Diet and lifestyle

How the brain regulates how hungry and full we feel

Friday, 31st January 2020

New Danish research improves understanding of how the hypothalamus and the rest of the brain control how much we eat.

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. ...

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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You can’t score if you don’t shoot

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

The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer

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Asthma prevention begins before birth

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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.

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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