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Innovation and life sciences at UiO: Six new teams ready for SPARK Norway

Feb 3, 2021

Innovation and life sciences at UiO: Six new teams ready for SPARK NorwaySix new teams have been admitted to UiO´s innovation programme SPARK Norway. The UiO:Life Science board admitted six...

Biodiversity is its own catalyst – to a point

Feb 3, 2021

For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from McGill University show that...

Immune system T cells to be trained to remove cancer

Feb 3, 2021

She has been a postdoc at the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Group Leader at the National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy at Herlev Hospital. Portrait: Sine Reker Hadrup is trying...

UK begins door-to-door testing of 80,000 people to halt South African variant

Feb 3, 2021

The testing surge was announced by the government on Monday after 11 people in different regions tested positive for the variant without having any links to people who had travelled...

J-PAL North America calls for proposals from state and local governments

Feb 3, 2021

J-PAL North America, a research center in the MIT Department of Economics, has announced the latest round of its State and Local Innovation Initiative's Innovation Competition, which supports state and...

Get on your bike: Active transport makes a significant impact on carbon emissions

Feb 2, 2021

Emission targets are unlikely to be met without a significant move away from motorised transport, according to the researchers, and shifting to active transport could save as much as a...

Tracking our earliest human ancestors from microscopic remains

Feb 2, 2021

Photo: Unhammer/HaalandTINY FRAGMENTS: Dr. Haaland studying tiny fragments in the cultural layers of Blombos Cave through a microscope. "Geoarchaeological analyses of archaeological cultural layers involve using methods and techniques that...

Rapid spread of U.K. coronavirus variant in Southern California sparks alarm

Feb 2, 2021

Story continues"This particular variant is estimated to be 50% to 70% more transmissible than previous variants, leading to surges in cases," Martin said. California first detected the B.1.1.7 variant Dec....

Robust artificial intelligence tools to predict future cancer

Feb 2, 2021

Mirai was significantly more accurate than prior methods in predicting cancer risk and identifying high-risk groups across all three datasets. “This, coupled with the higher instance of triple-negative breast cancer...

Mental health conditions alarmingly high among children with autism

Feb 1, 2021

Mental health conditions alarmingly high among children with autism Arts & HumanitiesNearly 78 per cent of children with autism have at least one mental health condition and nearly half have...