The tick Ixodes ricinus can transmit the TBE-virus to humans. Credit: Tove Hoffman, Uppsala University A new study conducted by Uppsala University and the University…
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Figure 1. The figure illustrates the directions of magnetic spins in a hopfion ring. Credit: Philipp Rybakov Hopfions, magnetic spin structures predicted decades ago, have…
An international team of researchers used one of the largest genomic datasets, consisting of nearly 4,000 Darwin’s finches, to study evolutionary changes in the iconic…
Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Illustration by Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched…
Hearing loss can reduce your opportunities, cause social withdrawal, and result in emotional problems. A new hypothesis about crocodile ears. Over 1.2 billion individuals worldwide…
Artistic reconstruction of the Seiche wave surging into the Tanis river, bringing in fishes and everything in its path (dinosaurs, trees) while impact spherules rain…
Legionella bacteria illustration. Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered that the ancestors of legionella bacteria infected eukaryotic cells as early as two billion years ago.…
Illustration of the RecA filament. Credit: David Goodsell How the cell can mend broken DNADNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long…
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered lymph node-like structures close to the tumor in brain cancer patients, where immune cells can be activated to attack…
The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is the first-ever insect to be described from fossil feces. Credit: Qvarnström et al. The tiny beetle Triamyxa coprolithica is…
A mating pair of Callosobruchus maculatus attempting to disengage (female left, male right). Credit: Mareike Koppik A few males are enough to fertilize all the…
Agung, a volcano in Bali, had an explosive eruption in 2018. Credit: O.L. Andersen Indonesia’s volcanoes are among the world’s most dangerous. Why? Through chemical…
The skull of Peştera Muierii 1, which entire genome is now successfully sequenced. Credit: Mattias Jakobsson For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the…
A research group working at Uppsala University has succeeded in studying ‘translation factors’ – important components of a cell’s protein synthesis machinery – that are…
Macrophages (green) accumulate around blood vessels in damaged tissue to regulate blood flow. Credit: David Ahl Cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death, is…
Over 50 millennia, at least five major immigration waves have successively populated the Philippines, the most comprehensive survey of genetic variations in the country to…
Ear membrane and auditory nerve in the cochlea. The octave bands have been given different colors. Humans can perceive frequencies from 20 Hz (the top…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the…
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…
With the modified agar plate CombiANT it is possible to do high-speed tests in order to see how bacteria react to different combinations of antibiotics.…