A standard blood test can predict a heart attack

Using the results of a standard blood test and an online tool, you can find out if you are at increased risk of having a heart attack within six months

15-Feb-2024 - The tool has been developed by a research group at Uppsala University in the hope of increasing patients’ motivation to change their lifestyle. Heart attacks are the most common cause of death in the world and are increasing globally. Many high-risk people are not identified or do not take their ...

X-rays visualize how one of nature’s strongest bonds breaks

The study solves a forty-year-old mystery: Crucial step in converting methane into useful chemicals

07-Jun-2023 - The use of short flashes of X-ray light brings scientists one big step closer toward developing better catalysts to transform the greenhouse gas methane into a less harmful chemical. The result, published in the journal Science, reveals for the first time how carbon-hydrogen bonds of alkanes ...

Microparticles with feeling

Researchers develop a new method to simultaneously measure flow and oxygen - Accurate and fast as never before

25-May-2022 - An international research team headed by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Aarhus University and the Science for Life Lab in Uppsala has developed tiny particles that measure the oxygen concentration in their surroundings. In this way, they can track fluid flow and ...

A new model can predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria

An international research team has developed a model that predicts growth rates and resistance mechanisms of common bacterial mutants at different drug doses

08-Mar-2021 - A team of scientists from the University of Cologne (Germany) and the University of Uppsala (Sweden) has created a model that can describe and predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. Resistance to antibiotics evolves through a variety of mechanisms. A central and still ...

Ticks on migratory birds found to carry newly discovered hemorrhagic fever virus

05-Jun-2018 - In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University and other institutions have identified genetic material from the recently identified Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever virus in the tick species Hyalomma rufipes. The discovery was made after thousands of ticks were collected from migratory birds ...

Taking high-speed snapshots of living cells with an X-ray laser

X-ray imaging method captures living cells with unprecedented speed and resolution

17-Feb-2015 - An international team led by Uppsala University and including scientists from DESY and the European XFEL has for the first time successfully imaged whole living bacterial cells with an X-ray laser. The method used in this experiment can produce results that are of higher spatial and temporal ...

Extreme x-ray pulses create unique image of intact virus

07-Feb-2011 - They are entirely too small to be seen even with the most powerful microscope. But now an international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid of extremely intensive and ultra-short x-ray pulses from ...

The putative skull of St. Bridget can be questioned

18-Feb-2010 - The putative skull of Saint Bridget (Birgitta) of Sweden that has been kept in a shrine in Vadstena Abbey is probably not authentic. A new study conducted at Uppsala University reveals that the two skulls, believed to be from Saint Bridget and her daughter Catherine (Katarina), is not from ...

Under pressure, atoms make unlikely alloys

13-Mar-2009 - Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys with properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form alloys - for some pairs of elements the atoms are too dissimilar. Now researchers in an international team have ...