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Beet red reimagined: how engineered yeast is revolutionising natural colourings

DNA 2. jul 2024 3 min Professor Irina Borodina

Microorganisms in a membrane bioreactor can convert CO2 from flue gas into valuable products

Climate 26. nov 2024 3 min Associate Professor Michael Vedel Wegener Kofoed

Willow trees and their physical and chemical products can help to solve global climate and environmental problems

Climate 28. nov 2024 3 min Postdoc Andrés C. Acosta

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12. dec 2024 3 min

Could higher temperatures break pollen?

17. sep 2024 3 min

Establishing new forests is not always straightforward

13. aug 2024 2 min

Changing land use alters the types and diversity of predatory soil microbes

20. jun 2024 6 min

Scientists learn to activate hidden genes in microbes, with potential for drug discovery

11. jun 2024 4 min

Looking for next-generation antibiotics from trash-heap insects

19. may 2024 4 min

Human noise threatens the communication of baleen whales

16. may 2024 2 min

Robotic device pulls silk fibres produced by E. coli from a solution

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Viruses – dead or alive?

As SARS-CoV-2 ravages the world, researchers are still debating whether this coronavirus, comprising DNA and RNA, a little enzyme and a protein coating, is alive. Viruses have no metabolism and cannot reproduce without a host. However, research has shown that viruses have a common evolutionary origin with our cells. The discussion does not change the never-ending battle humans have with deadly viruses, and since viruses have no metabolism, treatment and combating transmission are difficult.

19. mar 2024 3 min

Risk factors associated with long-term sick leave following COVID-19

3. dec 2021 3 min

How SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells

1. sep 2020 4 min

Smallpox epidemics were already rampant in the Viking Age

11. jul 2023 5 min

Surprising findings: does COVID-19 pose a greater risk at home or at the office?

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9. sep 2020 3 min

New research will monitor COVID-19 among socially disadvantaged people

27. aug 2020 1 min

New podcast focuses on COVID-19 research in Denmark

10. mar 2021 1 min

Yeast and fungi will accelerate the green transition

18. nov 2021 4 min

CO2: From climate burden to valuable resource?

5. mar 2022 4 min

Can overweight among children and adolescents be prevented before they are even conceived?

1. jun 2021 2 min

Biotech companies of the future will reuse each other’s residual products

6. jul 2021 3 min

New food category to create a real alternative to meat

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19. apr 2020 12 min

Researchers seek to exploit the food potential of 400,000 wild plant species

28. okt 2019 3 min

Researchers have finally gotten yeast to produce menthol

4. jan 2024 3 min

Quinoa mystery finally solved

23. feb 2023 3 min

Recreating meat-like textures from pumpkins and mung beans

17. apr 2021 3 min

Regulating plants’ zinc status can help 2 billion zinc-deficient people

22. dec 2016 1 min

Researchers fighting famine

3. mar 2022 2 min

Maximising the conversion of wheat straw to xylitol

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