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Forskere har funnet ut at virus sprøytet inn i hjernen kan kurere hjernekreft.
A virus to cure brain cancer (24.07.2018)
Injection of a genetically modified polio virus into the brain can give brain cancer patients several years more than normal treatment.
Jan Haavik og Ole M. Sejersted ved med diplom ved Det Norske Vitenskapsakademi
Jan Haavik elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (05.06.2018)
Professor Jan Haavik, head of the Neurotargeting Research Group and KG Jebsen Center for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, was recently elected as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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The master theses' are submitted (04.06.2018)
Twelve students in the master class of 2018 at the Department of Biomedicine lower their shoulders after having submitted their master theses.
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Changes in breast tissue that increase cancer risk (30.04.2018)
A research team led by James Lorens at the Department of Biomedicine and CCBIO used new technology to determine how breast tissue changes with age may contribute to breast cancer risk. The research is published in Cell Reports, with a commentary on Eureka Alert.
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American Association for Cancer Research awards Aminur Rahman (03.04.2018)
Aminur Rahman, PhD, has been awarded the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Scholar-in-Training Award
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A mutation that can cause autism (23.03.2018)
Read a summary of how researchers from UiB investigate new genetic variants associated with intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, and congenital abnomalies.
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Killing cancer with rat poison? (22.03.2018)
Researchers at the University of Florence had been looking for an new anti-cancer drug, when they realized the old rat poison called Vacor could be the answer to their searches
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Disputation: Henriette Christie Ertsås (20.03.2018)
Henriette Christie Ertsås defends her dissertation “The effects of ageing on microenvironment-contextual epithelialcell signalling” at the University of Bergen
Putting a break on cell movement (12.03.2018)
These researchers have made a sensational finding in cell biology. Adrian Drazic, Henriette Aksnes and Michaël Marie from Thomas Arnesen's group found an enzyme that others have been looking for for 30 years.
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Nordic Proteomics Conference (15.02.2018)
The Proteomics Unit of the University of Bergen, PROBE, and the Norwegian Proteomics Society organize this edition of the Nordic Proteomics Conference NPC 2018
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Brain Tumor Research and Therapy (15.02.2018)
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14th MIC Confocal Microscopy Course (05.02.2018)
Open for registration, deadline 23rd of February.
Dag Rune Olsen og Bent Høie
Stakeholders give input to the minister for health (30.01.2018)
At the UiB, health minister Bent Høie met representatives of the health industry and health institutions to receive input for a new parliamentary report on the health industry.
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A practical approch to STED-imaging (18.01.2018)
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Women with ADHD often develop anxiety and depression (04.01.2018)
Compared with adult men with ADHD, adult ADHD women have an increased risk of experiencing anxiety and depression, shows a new UiB study. Men with ADHD in contrast suffer more from substance abuse and schizophrenia.
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Strong association between ADHD and sleep disorders (08.12.2017)
People who are diagnosed with ADHD report more sleep problems – 15 times more so for certain types of sleep disorders than others without the diagnosis. “These are surprisingly large differences”, says the UiB-researcher behind the study.
Thomas Arnesen, Jill Walker Rettberg og Harald Sodemann har motteke ERC Consolidator Grants for sine prosjekt.
Three UiB researchers granted top EU funding (06.12.2017)
Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council for excellent research projects.
Ruth Brenk
Millions to research for discovering new antibiotics (05.12.2017)
Ruth Brenk at The Department of biomedicine received a grant of 7 million NOK for research to discover new antibiotics. The work will be carried out with collaborators at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology.

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