News archive for Faculty of Science and Technology

Tiny little deep sea helpers may help Norwegian industry to be greener! (25.05.2016)

Juliane Wissuwa defended her PhD at the University of Bergen (UiB), 25.5.2016. It is entitled: "The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Vent Fields - A valuable Resource for Marine Bioprospecting?”.

Evidence for the Oldest Eukaryotic Life Found (21.05.2016)

Yuangao Qu, a post-doc at the Centre for Geobiology (CGB), was a member of a team who discovered macroscopic fossils from the 1 560 Myr old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in the Yanshan area of North China. The results have been published in Nature Communications.

Schematic representation of the Naa10 protein, encoding exons, domains and localization of mutations in affected males and females.

New NAA10 mutations identified in 11 girls and boys with development delays. (12.05.2016)

In recent years, several sporadic cases of NAA10 mutations have been identified in patients with varying degrees of developmental delays. In the curremt issue of Human Mutation, Svein Isungset Støve, Marina Blenski and Thomas Arnesen from the NAT-group at the Department of Molecular Biology in collaboration with geneticists from Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States discovered... Read more

Field study in Brasil (02.05.2016)