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BC salmon may have exhibited virus for decades (05.01.2012)
Are Nylund says that wild salmon in British Columbia (BC) waters have been found to carry what a federal scientist believes may be a new strain of the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus, which has afflicted fish farms in eastern Canada, Chile and Europe.
Progress in diarrheal disease research in Bangladesh (02.01.2012)
A chronicle in Dagens Næringsliv (06.12.2011)
Fisheries-induced evolution is in the focus in Dagens Næringsliv.
Getting to drilling sites in Russian Arctic was not always...
Ancient rocks reveal carbon-cycling information (02.12.2011)
Two billion year old rocks are providing information about a period of extreme carbon cycle disruption and the Great Oxidation Event – both critically important to our understanding of Earth’s geological and biological history.
Biotechnology and microbial diversity of Ethiopian soda lakes (01.12.2011)
In October this year Lise Øvreås arranged a symposium together with Associate professor Amare Gessese at Addis Ababa University.
Jan Mayen survey points to petroleum potential (30.11.2011)
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and the University of Bergen have acquired samples from steep parts of the seabed on the Jan Mayen ridge between Norway and Iceland.
Geobio paper published in Science (24.11.2011)
CGB researcher, Bjarte Hannisdal, is co-author of a paper that shows that long-term changes in the diversity of marine animals may have been linked to the earth's geological evolution over the last 500 million years.
Ranga starts his master's project on guppies (17.11.2011)
EvoFish welcomes new master's student, Ranga Jayawickrama, who will study moprhological variation in guppies.
Finding out more about life beneath the sea floor (16.11.2011)
The International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) aims to discover vital information about our Earth System.
Farmed salmon diet fattens mice (10.11.2011)
Jérôme Ruzzin, a post-doc in the Experimental Toxicology research group, was involved in a study with mice that provides more evidence that a diet high in farmed salmon contaminated by persistent organic pollutants - POPs - contributes to weight gain and increases the risk of diabetes.
New student union initiative (27.10.2011)
Students enrolled in Fish Health and Aquaculture at BIO have confronted their need for more information by deciding to establish their own student union (linjeforeninga).
Adventure on the high seas (06.10.2011)
Our scientist-at-sea, PhD student Steffen Jorgensen, aboard the JOIDES Resolution has sent his fourth report.
At sea for two months (26.09.2011)
Steffen Jorgensen, a PhD at CGB, will be literally at sea for two months this autumn aboard an international research cruise.
Guppy research in BBC! (18.09.2011)
'Science & Environment' section of the BBC News has talked with Beatriz Diaz Pauli.
Testing a new state-of-the-art lander (16.09.2011)
For two weeks at the end of summer 2011, three researchers from the Centre of Geobiology were involved in the testing of NIVA’s new lander system.
Scottish and Norwegian microbiology prize winners (15.09.2011)
Tron Frede Thingstad in the news in Compute Scotland.
The CryoCARB team on the Taymyr Peninsula, Summer 2011
A Siberian field experience (14.09.2011)
It was quite different from "everyday life" says researcher Antje Gittel.
Eirik Normann from the Research Council of Norway, Centre leader and Biology...
New Centre aims to be world leading (13.09.2011)
The Sea Lice Research Centre, a newly awarded Centre for Research-based Innovation, opened Friday 9 September. It will be led by BIO professor, Frank Nilsen.

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