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Fruit fly metabolism could pave the way for new obesity and diabetes drugs

Nitrogen fixation in the Subarctic

Research expedition to the Central Arctic Ocean

Eye diseases caused by errors in small antennae

A microbial process hidden on marine particles

Parrot-talk

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Villum Synergy grant for BIO-researcher

2021.09.22

A new data-driven interdisciplinary research collaboration has seen the light of day: Professor Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen, Department of Biology & Professor Anders Krogh, Department of Computer Science have just received…
BIO-researcher part of new international NNF bridgehead center

2021.09.15

Launching today, the new Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard aims at being a world-leading hub of biomedical research and innovation. With the…
Villum Experiment millions to Anders Garm

2021.09.14

Do you really need a brain to learn something? Every year, the VILLUM FOUNDATION distributes up to 100 million risk-taking DKK to support the wildest and most challenging research ideas. Anders Garm from the Department…
Fruit fly metabolism could pave the way for new obesity and diabetes drugs

2021.09.09

The inner workings of fruit flies are more similar to those of humans than one might think. Now, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a hormone in these flies that can help us better understand…
Indirect effects of climate change reduce nitrogen fixation in the Subarctic

2021.08.05

New research shows that climate change will not only directly interfere with the nitrogen cycle in subarctic tundra, but its effects on microbial activity in soil and on plant productivity will also indirectly lead to a…

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