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Mette Burmølle new ERC Consolidator grantee

Even the smallest creatures have big stories to tell

Study reveals the evolution of birds from dinosaurs

Number of leopards in northern China on the rise

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How Earth’s oddest mammal got to be so bizarre

2021.01.06

Often considered the world's oddest mammal, Australia’s beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has venomous spur…
New Consolidator grantee at the Department of Biology

2020.12.09

Associate Professor Mette Burmølle has received one of the highly acclaimed Consolidator grants from the European Research Council, ERC. The grant, as the name implies, helps researchers with promising scientific track…
Two Young Investigator fellowships from the Carlsberg Foundation

2020.12.03

Two talented newly appointed Associate Professors has been granted founding to help them expand their research groups and pursue their supreme research
Funding from NNF to researchers from the Department of Biology

2020.11.30

This year two researchers from the Department of Biology met the high international standards of NNF and got awarded grants for projects in Bioscience and Basic Biomedicine
Anti-CRISPRs pave the way for future biotechnological discoveries

2020.11.20

Anti-CRISPR genes that encode CRISPR-Cas inhibitors could serve as marker genes for identifying new anti-defense systems with biotechnological potential

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