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Faculty of Science and Technology

Our Faculty has 3 300 full-time students, 1 000 employees, and a strong research. The eleven departments of the faculty comprises research and education within architecture, biology, chemistry, computing science, industrial design, mathematics, physics, educational science, and technology.

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Bacteria can help each other survive in persistent infections

New thesis shows why stubborn infections may need to be understood as bacterial communities.

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Tiny proteins in the spotlight at a Nobel Symposium in Umeå

Leading researchers gather in Umeå for a Nobel Symposium on microproteins, tiny proteins with important roles.

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Researchers receive doctoral students via MSCA Doctoral Network

Nicolò Maccaferri, Aleksandra Foltynowicz and Katarina Wulff get doctoral student funding via EU programme.

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New AI methods make medical image analysis more reliable

New AI methods take into account the structures in medical images and provide more reliable results.

Left: Carla M. BrunnerRight: Ajay Poonia
Metamaterials make the unexpected possible

Who has not dreamed of an invisibility cloak? The potential of metamaterials inspires researchers worldwide.

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A few minutes of freezing can change the fate of iron in nature

Ice is not a passive freezer, it affects iron minerals in a warmer climate with frequent freeze-thaw-cycles.

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Predicting how plants respond to their environment

How do genetic differences shape plant responses to the environment? Yanjun Zan aims to predict them.

ALS forskare Ulrika Nordström och Matthew Marklund
Conferred as doctors – 20 years after their PhD defences

They missed their doctoral conferment. Twenty years later, Ulrika Nordström and Matthew Marklund celebrate.

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Not the genes, but how they work together makes a tree a tree

Trees are shaped not by unique "tree genes", but by how genes work together.

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