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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...

Positive trend with PhD Students

2013-05-14
The month of May is intense at the Department of Computing Science with several dissertations and licentiate seminars. A total of five PhD students defend their jobs during the month.

Anna Clark, Australian Centre for Public History, is a guest professor at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies April 20th to June 20th

2013-04-26
Anna Clark from the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia visits the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and the research group History of Education from April 20th to June 20th, 2013. During her stay as a guest professor at the d...

Dr. Robert Parkes, University of Newcastle, is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies April 2nd to May 31st

2013-04-26
Dr. Robert Parkes is Senior Lecturer in Curriculum Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He visits the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies as a Visiting Research Fellow within the research group History of Education from April 2nd to May 31st this year. During ...

Erik Thomson, historian at the University of Manitoba, is a guest at Umeå Group for Premodern Studies from May 6th to June 3rd

2013-04-24
Erik Thomson, Associate Professor of History at the University of Manitoba, Canada, visits the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and the research group Umeå Group for Premodern Studies from May 6th to June 3rd, 2013. During his time as guest researcher he will give a semi...

Do not miss! Plant researcher Stefan Jansson is blogging

2013-04-22
From 22 April and two weeks onwards, Stefan Jansson will write on the university´s research blog. He is professor at the department of Plant Physiology.

NBC News: Critters evolve rapidly to cope with environmental change

2013-04-09
Critters can evolve over just a handful of generations to survive whatever environmental maladies humans toss their way, from climate change to over fishing, suggests a new study. "That is the first take-home message, and it is a positive message," Thomas Cameron, a biologist at Umea University in...

Environmental change triggers rapid evolution

2013-04-09
Environmental change can drive hard-wired evolutionary changes in animal species in a matter of generations. A study by Umeå University ecologist Tom Cameron and a research team at University of Leeds overturns the common assumption that evolution only occurs gradually over hundreds or thousands of ...

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