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he resarch group: Professor Eystein Sverre Husebye (to the left) together with molecularbiologists Bergithe Eikeland Oftedal and Aleksander Hellesen.
Researchers from Bergen discover new autoimmune disease (24.06.2015)
Researchers at the University of Bergen (UiB) have discovered that a rare autoimmune disease called APS1 may be more common than previously believed. The disease can lead to diabetes, hair loss, loss of pigments, dental problems and a number of other problems, especially in the internal organs.
Underwater subsea oil rig, used to illustrate article on Subsea cluster in Bergen.
UiB participating in world-leading cluster cooperation (19.06.2015)
Earlier this month, the Subsea cluster in Bergen was granted Global Centre of Expertise (GCE) status. For UiB the participation in this cluster represents a strengthening of the university's marine research environment and points towards the establishment of Science City Bergen and the EnTec building.
In summer 2014, some of the filming for the material for the new online course took place on Greenland. Here one of the project leaders, Professor Kerim Nisancioglu, is being interviewed for the MOOC.
The first Norwegian MOOC on climate (18.06.2015)
Would you like to learn about the drivers of the climate system? Take a look at this open online course, provided by the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and the University of Bergen.
Siri Gloppen
BSRS 2015: Sustainable development can be pursued with legal tools (17.06.2015)
A human rights based approach may make governments legally accountable for the political commitments made in the Sustainable Development Goals.
Model of the brain
More left-handed among schizophrenics (15.06.2015)
More left-handed people are found among schizophrenics than in the general population. Brain researcher Marco Hirnstein believes that this is due to common genes between hand preference and the disease.
Ph.d. candidate Hamidah Hussain from Pakistan and master student Chukwuemeka S. Agbo from Nigeria at the first course in health economics at the Centre for International Health in spring 2014.
How to get more out of every health care penny (12.06.2015)
A new course in health economics at the University of Bergen provides the health care workers with the opportunity to offer more effective help to patients.
On board a North Sea fishing vessel, with a fisherman on deck, hauling in the catch of the day.
Legal puzzle in the North Sea (03.06.2015)
What is the best way to manage an ecosystem? This is one of the many questions Sigrid Eskeland Schütz deals with in her work as a professor of law.
Kjersti Fløttum from University of Bergen and Endre Tvinnereim from Uni Research Rokkan are co-authors of an article published in Nature Climate Change on 1 June 2015.
What you think about when you hear the words climate change (02.06.2015)
Using a new method, researchers in Bergen discovered that so-called climate sceptics are more ambivalent about climate issues than previously assumed. Their results have now been published in Nature Climate Change.
Photo of micro algae, used to illustrate an article about a new research project.
Turning micro algae into "green" plastic (02.06.2015)
A new research project aims to turn micro algae into recycled plastic and to develop super algae to bind CO2.