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Lakes

Earth’s many new lakes

ERC

ERC Starting Grant for Jakob Grunnet Knudsen

AlphaFold

Social media at its best...

sugar cravings

The beginning of the end of unbridled sugar cravings?

Plasmider

Warring genetic parasites could lead to new defenses against dangerous bacteria

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Earth’s many new lakes

2022.11.28

The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a unique global survey of 3.4 million lakes that the University of Copenhagen has taken part in. There has been a particular…
ERC Starting Grant for Jakob Grunnet Knudsen

2022.11.22

Assistant Professor Jakob Grunnet Knudsen has received an € 1.5 million ERC starting Grant from the European Union for his project, "Paracrine signalling in alpha cells and the integration of mechanisms that control…
Social media at its best...

2022.11.09

In a grand international collaboration, researchers from the Department of Biology participated in testing the suitability of protein structures predicted by a new artificial intelligence system, called AlphaFold, for…
The beginning of the end of unbridled sugar cravings?

2022.11.08

Obesity is by all means a growing problem. In a new study, researchers from the Department of Biology have characterized a biological mechanism that can possibly be used to fight obesity by toning down the urge to eat…
Postdoc from the Department of Biology receives VILLUM International Postdoc grant

2022.11.04

Postdoc Jolanta Rieksta, Department of Biology, has just received VILLUM FONDEN's International Postdoc grant of 2.5 mDKK.

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