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Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.

Research news

New funds for REGIOPEACE from the Swedish Research Council
Published: 2022-11-08

Beyond winners and losers: Regional variations of peace in Sri Lanka’s war victory (REGIOPEACE)

Traces of ancient organisms in human cells
Published: 2022-11-07

The discovery is an important piece of the puzzle for designing new enzymes.

Voices from KBC 2022
Published: 2022-11-03

Information flows, the research infrastructures are important and the “we-feeling” is growing stronger at KBC.

Re-imagining design beyond materialism
Published: 2022-11-01

Can design respond differently to issues of social and ecological well-being in the future?

Cheaper hydrogen as researchers collaborate with industry
Published: 2022-10-28

Umeå physicist's industrial doctoral project one of twelve selected in the country.

WHO’s Director General keynote speaker during Kunskapsveckan
Published: 2022-10-28

The conference will be kicked off by the Director General of WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

New class of antibiotics effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria
Published: 2022-10-24

Umeå researchers one step closer to a new weapon against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

Parents in dual-earner households reports fewer depressive symptoms
Published: 2022-10-18

New research adds to the understanding of the long-term consequences of parental division of paid labor.

Discovery of exciting bacteria in underground caves in Africa
Published: 2022-10-14

Researchers from Umeå University, SLU and Algeria have found bacteria in previously unexplored caves.

Melting permafrost increases greenhouse gas from arctic lakes
Published: 2022-10-05

When permafrost melts greenhouse gas emission from arctic lakes increase, as quantified in a new study.

Non-target hunt for hazardous substances in the sea
Published: 2022-10-04

Andriy Rebryk has developed a method for non-target screening for potentially harmful substances.

Reduced climate impact by better insight in life cycle assessment
Published: 2022-10-04

The right tools are key to ensure investment decisions that reduce global emissions, new thesis shows.

New findings of how cells turn independent and regulate functions
Published: 2022-10-03

New thesis shows how cells regulate their protein level and adjust to the environment outside their organism.

Gabriel Torrens is one of the first with the Nobel laureate as a patron
Published: 2022-09-30

The Excellence by Choice Postdoc programme is managed by UCMR and UPSC with Emmanuelle Charpentier as patron.

Arctic lakes act as “reactors” or “chimneys” for carbon dioxide
Published: 2022-09-27

The period of ice-cover and subsequent ice-melt is important for understanding CO2 emission from arctic lakes.