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Danish researchers develop new type of immunotherapy

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Researchers have finally gotten yeast to produce menthol

Tuesday, 29th October 2019

For many years, researchers could not get yeast to make enough of the small biological molecules industry uses as fragrances and biofuels. Now researchers have engineered synthetic enzymes into yeast, enabling it to produce the scent of menthol.

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People with a diabetes complication may require fewer treatments

Friday, 25th October 2019

New Danish research shows that the number of times people with diabetic macular oedema need therapy may be halved simply by combining two approved therapies.

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6000 Danes are helping researchers to understand neuropathy

Tuesday, 22nd October 2019

A major Danish research project is attempting to discover the causes of diabetic neuropathy – a frequent yet overlooked complication of diabetes. The participants include 6000 Danes with diabetes.

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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

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Infertile men are not more likely to develop osteoporosis

Friday, 18th October 2019

New Danish research shows that men with reduced semen quality are not more likely to develop osteoporosis, as potentially feared.

Researchers map the structure of a memory protein

Tuesday, 15th October 2019

The pharmaceutical industry has waited a long time to determine the structure of a protein that plays an important role in memory and in developing numerous physiological processes, including low blood pressure, low body temperature, obesity, analgesia, drug addiction, cancer-cell ...

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Gener fra isolerede folkeslag røber fedmens akilleshæl

Monday, 1st July 2019

Forskere har i årevis forgæves søgt i høstakken af menneskelige gener efter den nål, der har ført til verdens fedmeepidemi. Kigger man på verdens befolkningers samlede pulje af gener, er der ingen tydelig sammenhæng ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Women can write themselves out of a fertility crisis

Thursday, 5th January 2017

Men and women undergoing fertility treatment often experience stress and depression. Nearly one in six women and one in five men experience severe symptoms of depression after 1 year of treatment. In particular, the stress level increases in the time between ...

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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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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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Many drugs in the blood of young people dying from heart attacks

Wednesday, 10th May 2017

An analysis of nearly 500 post-mortem reports of unexpected deaths among young people shows that most had a high blood concentration of at least one and often several drugs. The results suggest a possible connection between unexpected heart attacks and that ...

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