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A hormone builiding muscle mass can be vital in helping the aged, cancer patients and the obese, new research from the University of Bergen shows.

Professor Peter M. Haugan has long participated in high level work in the United Nations, building partnerships between science and diplomacy.

- I think this will provide me with new and important approaches for my own research, says PhD candidate from Ghana, Evans Manu. He is one of 97 researchers who are participating Bergen Summer Research School 2017.

UiB is once again Norway's most cited university. That was the result of a major new survey. On a worldwide basis, UiB has also climbed up the rankings due to frequently cited and international researchers.

The University of Bergen and the University of the South Pacific announced the establishment of a joint marine chair at a reception during the UN Ocean Conference.

At least eight million tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. A new exhibition at the University Museum of Bergen tells the story about the whale that showed the world how damaging plastic pollution is.

For the first time Music Academies in Norway collaborate in organizing a summer school. The International Music Research Summer School will be held in Oslo, but the initiative comes from Bergen and Grieg Research School.