• Two Professorial Inaugural Lectures

  2022.05.09

  Peter Brodersen and Lotte Bang Pedersen have been appointed professors at the Department of Biology. On that occasion, inaugural lectures will be held on 20 May 2022 at 14.30-16.00 in the Lundbeck auditorium in the…

• Celebration of August Krogh Nobel Prize 1920

  2022.04.20

  August Krogh was one of the great and influential scientists within natural science. A two days symposium will celebrate the 100th anniversary of his Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2020.

• Pig grunts reveal their emotions

  2022.03.07

  We can now decode pigs’ emotions. Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births to deaths, an international team of researchers is the first in the world to translate pi…

• Well-functioning fat may be the key to fewer old-age ailments

  2022.02.17

  Fat tissue plays an important role in human health. However, our fat tissue loses function as we age, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and other ailments. High levels of lifelong exercise seem to…

• Researchers gain a unique view of the inner life of cells

  2022.02.07

  The ever-changing shape of the interior of cells limits our understanding to whatever snapshot we’re looking at under the microscope. Now, a new computer model developed at the University of Copenhagen is allowing…

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