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Can a computer analyse a picture of a face and decide how old the person is? Anders Hast thinks it can. He is currently developing an algorithm tha...

Thanks to a gift from an American donor to Uppsala University, Sweden, research into immune reactions in cases of transplantation, autoimmunity and...

A smart video stabilisation method is the innovation behind Uppsala company Imint. The software will soon be embedded in a billion mobile phones. A...

Andreas Lifvendahl, Johan Svensson and Harald Klomp, who have all played major roles in the growth of the successful software company Imint, have b...

An enthusiastic researcher, a lab experiment that was actually supposed to go wrong, and dedicated innovation support. That is the recipe for how a...

Just a minute... Per Andrén, Professor of Mass Spectrometry Imaging and head of Uppsala University's MSI facility that in December consolidates its...

What happens if you are discriminated against by artificial intelligence (AI)? In the future, algorithms will take more and more decisions – for be...

Svante Pääbo, this year's Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, created a completely new field of research when he succeeded in mapping the DNA...

Philosophical discussions, lectures on groundbreaking discoveries and the chance to see the celebrities of science in real life. Uppsala University...

The silent pandemic – that is what the challenge of increasing antibiotic resistance in our society is sometimes called. Treatments are rendered mo...

The entrepreneur Sverker Lerheden has donated SEK 7.5 million to Uppsala University in the name of his wife, Birgitta Sintring Lerheden. The money ...

Uppsala University takes 11th place out of 700 higher education institutions in the QS World University Ranking: Sustainability. According to the l...

SciLifeLab and the Faculty of Pharmacy receive key positions as the EU invests 25 million euros in a European platform to enhance repurposing of me...

In just 30 minutes, their test can determine which antibiotic is required to treat a urinary tract infection. Johan Elf and Özden Baltekin are reco...

A major technology shift is happening in the workplace. What is the impact on the work environment when artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics a...

Antibiotic resistance, Innovations and Design Thinking were on the agenda when the Faculty of Pharmacy welcomed young researchers from six European...

Under the original plan, the role of national vaccination coordinator would have already been completed. But with a virus that evades both immune s...

Uppsala-based battery company Altris AB was recently given the green light for funding to the tune of SEK 100 million. The company’s roots are at t...

“We are now fully focused on bringing our ADAC technology to the clinic,” says Sara Mangsbo, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Faculty...

Earlier in May, the Beijer Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was inaugurated in Building 10 of the Ångström Laboratory. The lab will focus its res...