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Surgery can counteract genetically determined obesity
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People with ADHD have restless legs syndrome more often
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Researchers produce cannabinoids by using yeast
Tuesday, 14th May 2019
The market for cannabis has taken off in recent years, and it will definitely grow in the future. Researchers have finally discovered how they can synthesize the relevant cannabinoid compounds in cannabis by using yeast, opening up new pharmaceutical applications.
Diet and lifestyle
Pregnant women becoming increasingly overweight
Friday, 10th May 2019
New Danish research shows that the body mass index (BMI) of pregnant women is increasing over the years. Their newborn babies are also becoming larger, which increases the child’s risk of becoming overweight. A researcher is concerned.
Disease and treatment
Blood supply may be the Achilles heel of tumours
Wednesday, 8th May 2019
Danish research shows that the arteries supplying blood to cancerous tissue act differently than other arteries in the body. Tumours may be targeted with medicine that alters blood flow thereby effectively killing them or making them more susceptible to radiation ...

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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement
The myriad processes that take place in our body’s cells are the basis of life as we know it. Since cells are filled with fluid, British chemist Carol Robinson created a lot of attention by setting out to investigate ...
Body and mind
The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer
Disease and treatment
Asthma prevention begins before birth
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Gastric surgery works: let’s turn it into a pill
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Researchers search for the tremors that stop the heart
Disease and treatment
Researchers map the unique proteins secreted by cancer cells
Friday, 3rd May 2019
Cancer cells in various tissues secrete various proteins. Researchers have now identified many of the proteins that cancer cells secrete. The discovery enables researchers to start creating diagnostic tools using a blood test that can identify almost any type of ...
Environment and sustainability
Technology from the physics laboratory can make yoghurt more palatable
Wednesday, 1st May 2019
Scientists have used advanced laser technology to analyse the viscosity of dairy products. This technology can make it easier for food scientists and the food industry to analyse such properties as keeping dairy products from spoiling and optimally maintaining consumer ...
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 ...
Body and mind
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 ...
Diet and lifestyle
Computers will help us to be healthier as we age
Tuesday, 3rd January 2017
One hundred years. That is how old you are predicted to become if you were born in about 2000 and have a relatively healthy and active lifestyle. The prospect of a longer life has intensified research on healthy ageing. New research ...

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How life’s building blocks got their freedom of movement
Body and mind
The body’s final line of defence on the route to cancer
Disease and treatment
Asthma prevention begins before birth
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Gastric surgery works: let’s turn it into a pill
Body and mind
Researchers search for the tremors that stop the heart
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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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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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