Press Releases

• Discovery of gatekeeper nerve cells explains the effect of nicotine on learning and memory
  
• Cloned receptor paves way for new breast and prostate cancer treatment
  Researchers at Uppsala University have cloned a T-cell receptor that binds to an antigen associated with prostate cancer and breast cancer. T cells...
• PCB can increase risk of abdominal fat
  There is a correlation between high levels of the environmental toxin PCB and the distribution of body fat to the abdomen. This is shown in a new s...
• Food supplementation in early pregnancy reduces infant mortality
  The devastating role of maternal and child malnutrition is especially prominent in South Asia. In this week’s issue of JAMA researchers from Uppsal...
• Active lifestyle in elderly keeps their brains running
  
• Children’s brain tumours more diverse than previously believed
  Paediatric brain tumours preserve specific characteristics of the normal cells from which they originate – a previously unknown circumstance with r...
• High levels of phthalates can lead to greater risk for type-2 diabetes
  
• Faulty signaling in brain increases craving for sugar and drugs
  When glutamate and dopamine do not collaborate as they should in the brain’s signal system, the kick that alcohol, sugar, or other drugs induce inc...
• New discovery brings hope to treatment of incurable blood cancer
  Multiple myeloma is one of the most common blood cancers, and at present considered to be incurable. In a new study from Uppsala University, resear...
• Major breakthrough may pave the way for therapeutic vaccines
  It should be possible to use therapeutic vaccines to create both cheap and effective drugs for diseases like cancer and allergies. One problem in d...
• New mechanism explains how the body prevents formation of blood vessels
  Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and abroad, have identified an entirely new mechanism by which a spec...
• DNA molecules in moss open door to new biotechnology
  Plasmids, which are DNA molecules capable of independent replication in cells, have played an important role in gene technology. Researchers from U...
• Malnutrition among older adults in rural Bangladesh challenges the Millennium Development Goals.
  Ninety per cent of older persons in rural Bangladesh displayed either overt or risk for malnutrition in a collaborative study presented in a disser...
• Evolutionarily preserved mechanism governs use of genes
  Researchers at Uppsala University have found that the protein coding parts of a gene are packed in special nucleosomes. The same type of packaging ...
• Operation for aneurysm yields nearly normal longevity
  Preventive operations are being used more and more often to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms. Even though the operation is now being offered to eve...
• Antibiotics-resistant gulls worry scientists
  
• Cell transplants may cure deafness
  When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed...
• Neuroscience at Uppsala University rewarded
  Klas Kullander, associate professor of neuroscience at Uppsala University, is one of five winners of the Göran Gustafsson Prize for 2009 - the larg...
• Right warfarin dose determined by three genes
  Researchers at Uppsala University, together with colleagues at the Karolinska Institute and the Sanger Institute, have now found all the genes the ...
• Important new model shows how proteins find the right DNA sequences
  Researchers at Uppsala University and Harvard University have collaboratively developed a new theoretical model to explain how proteins can rapidly...