Allergisk stimulans aktiverar förstadieceller till mastceller
2021-09-29
Förstadieceller till mastceller orsakar inte bara ökningen av mogna mastceller vid inflammatoriska tillstånd, utan de spelar en aktiv roll vid sjukdomar som exempelvis astma. Det visar en ny studie gjord av forskare i immunologi, som publiceras i Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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How innovation from Uppsala University can reduce antibiotic-resistant bacteria
2022-06-23
Treating severe infections with a combination of antibiotics has long been standard practice in Swedish medicine. Despite this, at present there is no clinical test to prove how well it actually works. Researcher Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos wants to change that.
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New inherited retroviruses identified in the koala genome
2022-06-23
Historic virus infections can be traced in vertebrate genomes. For millions of years, these genomes have been repositories for retroviruses that incorporated their code into germline cells and were inherited as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs). Researchers from Uppsala University now provide new findings about retroviral establishment in the koala genome. The findings are being published in the journal PNAS.
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Inês Rodrigues Faria, master student at IMBIM, received the best short oral presentation award at the 11th One Health Sweden Scientific Meeting "Pandemics and preparedness", March 2022.
2022-05-31
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Erik Schubert, PhD student at IMBIM, has received an award for best post at the scientific conference Viruses 2022
2022-05-02
Erik Schubert presented results on how human adenovirus can affect homeostasis in mitochondria, focusing on which viral protein may be responsible for mitochondrial DNA release.
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Ancient Genes for Symbiosis Hint at Mitochondria’s Origins
2022-04-27
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Ancestors of legionella bacteria infected cells two billion years ago
2022-02-16
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago. It happened soon after eukaryotes began to feed on bacteria. These results, described in a new study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, also contribute to the chicken-or-egg debate about whether mitochondria or phagocytosis came first.
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The Swedish Society for Virology has decided that the first Sigvard Olofsson Award in virology is to be shared between Mahmoud M Naguib at IMBIM and Ka-Wei Tang at Sahlgrenska Academy
2022-01-02
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Herring and sprat: silver of the sea that turned into sand
2021-12-14
“I’m passionate about understanding the genetic background of biodiversity development and I’d like our research to culminate in more sustainable use of herring and sprat, which are a superb resource,” writes Leif Andersson, Professor of Functional Genomics at IMBIM.
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Johanna Lindahl has been awarded about 3 million in research grants from Formas.
2021-12-14
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Researchers at IMBIM are awarded a total of SEK 20 million in research grants from Cancerfonden
2021-12-14
Cancerfonden´s research committee has decided to distribute SEK 732 million to 230 research projects. In total this year, there will be SEK 850 million for Swedish cancer research.
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För andra året i rad har medicinska studierådet utsett IMBIM´s kurs medicinsk mikrobiologi till bästa kurs på läkarprogrammet.
2021-12-09
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Örjan Carlborg, Lionel Guy, Jenny Hesson, Diarmaid Hughes, Mahmoud Naguib and Linus Sandegren have been awarded SEK 2.8 million för the coming four years
2021-11-24
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Carl-Johan Rubin has been awarded NOK 3 120 000 by Havforskningsinstitutet for the next four years.
2021-11-24
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Dan Andersson, Patric Jern, Nils Landegren and Jin-ping Li are awarded a total of 21.8 million SEK by the Swedish Research Council for the grant period 2021-2025
2021-11-02
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Why some Darwin’s finch nestlings have yellow beaks
2021-11-02
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Allergisk stimulans aktiverar förstadieceller till mastceller
2021-09-29
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Dan I Andersson har tilldelas medel om 2 025 000 dollar över fem år från amerikanska National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2021-06-01
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Gut epithelium muscles up against infection
2021-04-13
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Nils Landegren tilldelas Stora Gustafsson priset 2021
2021-04-08
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Påskkaninen som kan gå på ”händerna”
2021-04-01
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Mastcellers frisättning av serotonin bidrar till luftvägsöverkänslighet vid astma
2021-03-11
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Over half a billion people a year get some type of bacterial intestinal infection. By building their own intestines, so-called organoids, Mikael Sellin and his colleagues at IMBIM, Uppsala University can study how these infections occur.
2021-01-18
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Antibiotic resistance from random DNA sequences
2021-01-12
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Genome sequencing for more sustainable herring fishery
2020-12-16
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Linnémedaljen tilldelas professor Kerstin Lindblad Toh
2020-12-09
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Stora bidrag till utveckling av forskningsinfrastruktur. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh tilldelas 7 850 000 kr för sitt projekt En svensk EBP plattform: infrastruktur och proof-of-principle project
2020-11-24
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Carl-Henrik Heldin, Per Jemth, Joakim Näsvall and Gunnar Pejler are awarded a total of 14.2 million by the Swedish Research Council for the grant period 2020-2024.
2020-11-24
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Rapid testing for antibiotic resistance
2020-11-17
In cases of severe infection, identifying the correct antibiotic – and doing so quickly – can be a matter of life and death. At Uppsala University a very fast test for antibiotic resistance is being developed. The goal is to reduce the time from taking a sample to getting a result from one day to under four hours.
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240 mammals help us understand the human genome
2020-11-12
A large international consortium led by scientists at Uppsala University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has sequenced the genome of 130 mammals and analysed the data together with 110 existing genomes to allow scientist to identify which are the important positions in the DNA. This new information can help both research on disease mutations in humans and how best to preserve endangered species. The study is published in Nature.
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Per Jemth, Lena Kjellén, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh och Anna-Karin Olsson tilldelas 11 miljoner i forskningsanslag av Cancerfonden
2020-11-12
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Carl-Henric Heldin, Per Jemth, Joakim Näsvall, John Pettersson och Gunnar Pejler har tilldelats projekt/etableringsbidrag på totalt ca 20 miljoner över fyra år av Vetenskapsrådet.
2020-11-04
Vetenskapsrådet har fattat beslut om vilka ansökningar som beviljats bidrag inom Naturvetenskap och teknikvetenskap 2020. Uppsala universitet får 225 miljoner till 65 forskningsprojekt som spänner över ett brett fält av områden
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Leif Andersson receives 25 million SEK in project grants from KAW
2020-10-01
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New high-speed test shows how antibiotics combine to kill bacteria
2020-09-18
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine – rapidly, easily and cheaply – how effective two antibiotics combined can be in stopping bacterial growth. The new method is simple for laboratories to use and can provide greater scope for customising treatment of bacterial infections. The study is published in PLOS Biology.
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Genomic Analysis Reveals Many Animal Species May Be Vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 Infection
2020-08-25
För att i framtiden snabbt kunna hejda utbrott av covid-19 som orsakas av viruset SARS-CoV-2 och för att redan nu kunna skydda utrotningshotade arter som riskerar att drabbas, behövs kunskap om vilka djur som är tänkbara smittbärare av viruset. Professor Kerstin Lindblad-Toh vid Uppsala universitet och hennes kollegor har identifierat ett stort antal däggdjur som potentiellt kan smittas.
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Birgitta Tomkinson has been awarded the newly established pedagogical prize by BAStU-rådet / BMA program
2020-08-24
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The Swedish Research Council has granted Jin-ping Li SEK 797,320 in project grants for research on coronavirus and covid-19
2020-07-09
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Novel function of platelets in tumour blood vessels found
2020-06-25
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50 miljoner till forskning om antibiotikaresistens
2020-06-05
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Carl-Henrik Heldin, senior professor at IMBIM, has been appointed by the European Commission as chair of the committee to appoint members of the ERC Scientific Council.
2020-05-27
European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth has invited six high-level scientists to identify future members of the ERC Scientific Council. One of the six is Carl-Henrik Heldin, senior prefessor at IMBIM.
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Intensive hunt for drugs to fight COVID-19
2020-05-12
The entire world is currently waiting for a vaccine against COVID-19. Intensive research is ongoing to develop useful drugs against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. At Uppsala Biomedical Centre (BMC), substances are being tested that attack the same type of enzyme as drugs against HIV and hepatitis C.
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Tests provide new picture of the spread of the virus
2020-05-11
Two recent studies testing for antibodies against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 provide a new picture of the spread of virus in Sweden. “To gain a more realistic picture of the spread of the virus in Sweden, we need to perform more tests,” says Åke Lundkvist, professor of virology at Uppsala University.
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How gene flow between species influences the evolution of Darwin’s finches
2020-05-05
Despite the traditional view that species do not exchange genes by hybridisation, recent studies show that gene flow between closely related species is more common than previously thought. A team of scientists from Uppsala University and Princeton University now reports how gene flow between two species of Darwin’s finches has affected their beak morphology. The study is published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
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Kerstin Lindblad-Toh has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Sciences
2020-04-28
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Professor of Comparative Genomics at Uppsala University, has been elected as one of 146 new members of the National Academy of Sciences, founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.
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Shady Younis and Gustav Brander has received ”The Wallenberg Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship Program at Stanford” respectively ”The Wallenberg Foundation scholarship program for postdoctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Broad Institute"
2020-04-08
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New insights into evolution: why genes appear to move around
2020-03-06
Scientists at Uppsala University have proposed an addition to the theory of evolution that can explain how and why genes move on chromosomes. The hypothesis, called the SNAP Hypothesis, is presented in the scientific journal PLOS Genetics.
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Mikael Sellin appointed Future Research Leader by SSF
2020-02-18
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“Lethal” mutation makes tuberculosis bacteria resistant to antibiotic
2020-01-29
Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tuberculosis bacteria that carries a mutation that in theory should kill them manages to stay alive. The researchers discovered that the same trick that kept the bacteria alive also made them resistant to a very important type of antibiotic.
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Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded an ESCMID Research Grant 2020
2020-01-22
Maria Letizia Di Martino has been awarded 20,000 € by ESCMID (European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases). The project - Revealing the Shigella flexneri epithelial invasome in a human enteroid infection model - will provide a global map of the Shigella virulence factors required for infection of the human “mini-intestine” model. This will form a solid basis for future molecular studies of human shigellosis, a research field thus far hampered by the lack of physiological infection models.
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Carl-Henric Heldin, Staffan Johansson and Gunnar Pejler have been awarded a total of 10.6 million SEK by the Swedish Cancer Society, Cancerfonden
2019-11-21
Cancerfonden has decided to give an additional SEK 670 million to Swedish cancer research. This means that the Swedish Cancer Society decided this year on a record dividend of SEK 770 million. It is the largest amount in the history of the Swedish Cancer Society.
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Formas has decided to award Dan Andersson, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh och Linus Sandegren three million SEK each in research funds in the Annual Open Call for Research and Development Projects 2019
2019-11-20