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The quest to save people from the voices that kill

Tuesday, 22nd September 2020

Voices that talk to you. They encourage you to kill yourself, stab somebody or contemplate how to kill yourself. This is reality for 1 of 100 people. Most often they do not know that the voices are not real, and 1 in 4 actually ...

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Antibiotics seldom necessary for people with COVID-19

Monday, 21st September 2020

Danish research shows that people with COVID-19 who are hospitalized rarely have bacterial infections. Antibiotics are therefore not needed at admission, says a researcher.

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Medicine in the spotlight for exacerbating COVID-19

Saturday, 19th September 2020

People with diabetes and/or high blood pressure develop COVID-19 symptoms that are worse than average. Danish researchers will investigate whether the medicine taken for these conditions is the cause. So far, studies indicate that the medicine used to lower ...

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The brain’s eternal struggle to achieve harmony

Hunger can be one of the most urgent needs to tame. The secretion of hormones and the emission of nerve signals can be so massive that people must eventually surrender. The violent interplay between the forces of the body – especially ...

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Major antibody trial in Denmark will determine whether the immune system remembers the new coronavirus

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Plants need special help to survive climate change

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Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing

Inserting human genes in Escherichia coli advances researchers’ knowledge on evolution

Thursday, 17th September 2020

Researchers have inserted genes from humans into Escherichia coli bacteria and studied how the bacteria evolve to make these genes function. This insight gives researchers a better understanding of what being an organism means and can be used ...

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Low-dose corticosteroids extremely effective against severe COVID-19

Thursday, 17th September 2020

A new meta-analysis of clinical trials testing low-dose corticosteroids against severe COVID-19 shows excellent effectiveness. The analysis confirms a much-publicized trial in the United Kingdom, the results of which were published in June. Intensive care units in Denmark have started ...

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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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Major antibody trial in Denmark will determine whether the immune system remembers the new coronavirus

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Plants need special help to survive climate change

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The quest to save people from the voices that kill

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Antioxidants can become too much of a good thing

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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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