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Discovery at Umeå University awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation invests in infection medicine

The financial support is included in a national investment into Life Science.

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New findings of how cells turn independent and regulate functions
Published: 2022-10-03

New thesis shows how cells regulate their protein level and adjust to the environment outside their organism.

New findings on the water-splitting reaction in photosystem II
Published: 2020-09-17

Casper discusses in his thesis which water molecules that are the active ones and how this reaction proceeds.

New formal methods for natural language processing
Published: 2019-01-17

Computers represents the semantic meaning of a sentence by graphs. These graphs can be made more explicit.

New frames added to the molecular movie on how plants make oxygen
Published: 2020-05-25

Scientists take steps towards capturing a molecular movie of how oxygen-oxygen bond formation occurs.

New funds for REGIOPEACE from the Swedish Research Council
Published: 2022-11-08

Beyond winners and losers: Regional variations of peace in Sri Lanka’s war victory (REGIOPEACE)

New gene-editing installation at Curiosum
Published: 2022-02-21

A collaboration with students on the Design-Build-Test course leads to an interactive CRISPR-Cas9 exhibition.

New initiative in research in the growing field of Media AI
Published: 2021-06-30

Automatic analysis of combined media in text, image and sound is becoming increasingly important.

New insights into regulation of root initiation
Published: 2019-12-05

Abdellah Lakehal has studied how the initiation of adventitious roots is regulated at the molecular level.

New knowledge about food can improve the overall health of children
Published: 2020-09-28

Nutritionist and gastronome Ulrica Johansson studies optimised supplementary food intake for young children.

New knowledge about the virulence and resistance of hospital superbug
Published: 2024-01-22

Bacterial pili increase virulence and form biofilm structures that strengthen antibiotic tolerance.

New knowledge on how climate affects pendulous lichens in northern forests
Published: 2020-11-17

Research from Umeå University explains how traits in pale lichens allow them to thrive in wet climates.

New leadership at Umeå School of Architecture
Published: 2019-09-04

Mikael Henningsson, Sara Thor, Michael Gruber and Amalia Katapodis will lead Umeå School of Architecture.

New method measures pressure with high precision
Published: 2023-10-13

Accurate measuring is crucial when for example dosing medicines and handling dangerous gases.

New method to recycle adsorbents in wastewater treatment
Published: 2023-11-02

Pierre Oesterle's thesis shows how recycling can be made more eco-friendly using pressure cooker technology.

New non-toxic method for producing high-quality graphene oxide
Published: 2024-02-20

Produces significantly fewer defects compared to the most commonly used method today.