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Huffington Post UK: Alzheimer's Drugs Could Reduce Risk of Heart Attack

2013-06-06
The risk of heart attack or serious heart disease is less for people with Alzheimer's disease who eat a certain type of antiretroviral drugs, called cholinesterase inhibitors. Even the risk of death is lower for these patients, according to a recent study led by Professor Peter Nordström published i...

Design student takes over Sweden's twitter account

2013-05-28
Every week, someone in Sweden gets to be the voice of @Sweden, the official twitter account known as Curators of Sweden. This week it's Fredrik Aaro, a 28 year old student in the master's programme in transportation design at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University.

Charge your mobile phone with formic acid?

2013-05-27
Surprisingly the answer is yes. With the technology of today it is possible to use environmental friendly formic acid in fuel cell powering your mobile phone or laptop. Physicist Florian Nitze, Umeå University, has in his thesis developed new catalysts to improve the capacity of these fuel cells.

Sharp increase in international master’s students expected

2013-05-23
The number of international students that have been admitted for master’s degree programmes starting in autumn 2013 has risen dramatically in comparison with the prior year. Some of the most popular programmes are in the areas of public health, finance, molecular biology, business development and in...

The Norway spruce genome sequenced

2013-05-22
Swedish scientists have mapped the gene sequence of Norway spruce (the Christmas tree) – a species with huge economic and ecological importance - and that is the largest genome to have ever been mapped. The genome is complex and seven times larger than that of humans. The results have been published...

Gigantic spruce genome sequenced

2013-05-22
The spruce, giant of the forests, outlived the dinosaurs and is today Sweden’s most important plant from an economical aspect. Its genome is also huge, seven times larger than the human genome. For that reason until now a full mapping of the spruce genome has been impossible. But scientists at Umeå ...

Strong ties between Umeå and China

2013-05-22
A vivid mixture of English, Swedish and Chinese filled restaurant Hjortron on Campus Umeå on Monday when the Alumni Office held a Chinese Afternoon. All Chinese speaking students and staff were invited to mingle and learn more about Umeå University’s and Umeå Municipality’s cooperation with China.

Agnès Varda at Bildmuseet

2013-05-21
On Sunday June 2 at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens a major exhibition with the work by film director and artist Agnès Varda. The exhibition, which fills three museum's floors, shows the breadth of Varda's oeuvre in which both documentary films and installations are included.

Jacob Hashimoto / Superabundant Atmosphere

2013-05-21
On Sunday 2 June at 14:00 Bildmuseet opens the exhibition Jacob Hashimoto / Superabundant Atmosphere. Welcome to the press preview Thursday 30 May at 10:00.

Discovery of a novel medicine for the treatment of chronic wounds

2013-05-20
Every 20 seconds, a limb is lost as a consequence of diabetic foot ulcer that does not heal. To date, medical solutions that can change this situation are very limited. In his doctoral thesis Yue Shen from the Industrial Doctoral School and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Um...

Popular international master's programme receives award

2013-05-16
Jonny Holmström and Johan Sandberg at Umeå University have received a national educational award for developing the master's programme in IT Management.

More severe disease explains the higher costs of care for men

2013-05-15
Men often suffer from more severe cases of psoriasis than women, which may explain why the cost of care for men is higher. This is the conclusion of researchers at Umeå University in a new study.

Cells must use their brakes moderately for effective speed control

2013-05-15
How cells regulate their own function by “accelerating and braking” is important basic knowledge when new intelligent medicines are being developed, or when plant cells are tweaked to produce more bioenergy. In a study published by Nature Communications 14 May, researchers at Uppsala and Umeå univer...

Several subjects listed high in world university ranking

2013-05-08
Five subject areas at Umeå University were listed among the world’s best higher education institutions in this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject. This is a significant increase of the number of subject areas from the prior year.

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