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Umeå University (Swedish: Umeå universitet (Template:Lang-sju)) is a university in Umeå in the mid-northern region of Sweden

Can drug resistance in tuberculosis be reversed?

About 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, making it the most lethal infectious disease worldwide. A growing rise in drug-resistant TB is a major obstacle to successfully treating the illness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Umea University in Sweden have found a compound that prevents

Can drug resistance in tuberculosis be reversed?

Light-emitting electrochemical cells could compete with fluorescent tube, LED and OLED lighting

Researchers from Umeå University and Linköping University in Sweden have developed light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) that emit strong light at high efficiency. As such, the thin, flexible and light-weight LEC promises future and improved applications within home diagnostics, signage, illumination and healthcare. The results are published in Nature Communications. The light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) can be

Light-emitting electrochemical cells could compete with fluorescent tube, LED and OLED lighting

Organic light-emitting devices and printed electronics can now be connected to a socket in the wall

Organic light-emitting devices and printed electronics can be connected to a socket in the wall by way of a small, inexpensive organic converter, developed in a collaboration between Linköping University and Umeå University. Printed electronics and organic light-emitting devices now perform at levels sufficient for a number of eco-friendly, energy-efficient applications. Previously the idea has

Organic light-emitting devices and printed electronics can now be connected to a socket in the wall

New hanging 3D printer does not depend on a box, frame or rails opening up new possibilities

Sliperiet at Umeå Arts Campus is in the process of making a 3D printed Tower of Babel using a novel hanging printer. This offers a low-cost solution and increased flexibility to print large volumes. A new type of 3D printer has been demonstrated at Sliperiet, Umeå Arts Campus. Suspended on thin fishing lines, ‘Hangprinter’ is

New hanging 3D printer does not depend on a box, frame or rails opening up new possibilities

Umeå researcher served a world first (?) CRISPR meal

For (probably) the first time ever, plants modified with the “genetic scissors” CRISPR-Cas9 has been cultivated, harvested and cooked. Stefan Jansson, professor in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology at Umeå University, served pasta with “CRISPRy” vegetable fry to a radio reporter. Although the meal only fed two people, it was still the first step towards

Umeå researcher served a world first (?) CRISPR meal

Lasers Help Speed Up the Detection of Bacterial Growth in Packaged Food and Other Environments

New technique enables fast, accurate and noninvasive measurement of bacteria levels It’s important to know how microorganisms — particularly pathogenic microbes — grow under various conditions. Certain bacteria can cause food poisoning when eaten and bacterial growth in medical blood supplies, while rare, might necessitate discarding the blood. Now a group of researchers from Zhejiang

Lasers Help Speed Up the Detection of Bacterial Growth in Packaged Food and Other Environments

Dye-sensitized solar cells that use carbon nanotube thin films as transparent electrodes offer significant cost savings

Solar energy is one of the most promising forms of renewable energy, but the high cost of conventional solar cells has so far limited its popularity. To increase the competitiveness of solar energy, scientists have turned to the development of dye-sensitized solar cells — solar cells that use low-cost organic dyes and titanium dioxide (TiO2)

Dye-sensitized solar cells that use carbon nanotube thin films as transparent electrodes offer significant cost savings

New treatment for African sleeping sickness comes closer

Researchers at Umeå University have identified drugs targeting infections of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei and are thereby well on the way to find a cure against African sleeping sickness. This is the kernel of a thesis, which will be publicly defended on 8 November 2013. African sleeping sickness (Human African trypanosomiasis) is caused by a

New treatment for African sleeping sickness comes closer

Discovery of a novel medicine for the treatment of chronic wounds

Every 20 seconds, a limb is lost as a consequence of diabetic foot ulcer that does not heal. To date, medical solutions that can change this situation are very limited. In his doctoral thesis Yue Shen from the Industrial Doctoral School and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics at Umeå University presented a novel

Discovery of a novel medicine for the treatment of chronic wounds

Revealing the weapons by which bacteria fight each other – New Antibacterial Potential

This exciting finding opens the way for the development of new antibacterial drugs to fight bacteria using their own weapons. A new study which was performed jointly at Umeå University and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, discovered that bacteria can degrade the cell membrane of bacterial competitors with enzymes that do not harm

Revealing the weapons by which bacteria fight each other – New Antibacterial Potential

New wastewater treatment technique protects fish from antidepressants

Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a new technique to prevent pharmaceutical residues from entering waterways and harming wildlife. The new water treatment technology – called membrane distillation – separates drug residues from sewage with the help of district heating, says who worked on the development project with IVL and

New wastewater treatment technique protects fish from antidepressants

Pill to Gill: Antianxiety Drugs Flushed into Water May Be Making Fishes Fearless

Levels of human drugs commonly found in the world’s waterways may be altering the way fishes behave Antianxiety drugs may be making fish more aggressive. New laboratory tests reveal that even extremely low concentrations of the calming drugs benzodiazepines—more commonly known as Valium and Xanax, among others—cause fish to become less timid and to feed faster,

Pill to Gill: Antianxiety Drugs Flushed into Water May Be Making Fishes Fearless

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Dream bat research career uncovered at Arena Theatre event
The public lecture is being held on Monday 13 May by Dr Morgan Hughes, a post-doctoral fellow at UMEA University & University Honorary Fellow, at the University’s Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton.
Study provides deeper understanding of how membrane remodeling works in human cells
In a study published in the prestigious scientific journal PNAS, Umeå researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that inhibits interaction between two proteins in complexes that ...
New discovery of mechanism that controls cell division: Study
The study shows movement of a unique protein complex known as the Mediator along DNA genes may affect the process of cell division.
Study finds new discovery of mechanism that controls cell division
Scientists at Umea University in Sweden have shown that the movement of a unique protein complex known as the Mediator along DNA genes may affect the process of cell division. The finding might be ...
Novel chemical tool for understanding membrane remodeling in the cell
Researchers describe a natural product-like molecule, Tantalosin, that inhibits interaction between two proteins in complexes that reshape membranes inside the cell. The findings lead to a deeper ...

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New discovery of mechanism that controls cell division: Study
The study shows movement of a unique protein complex known as the Mediator along DNA genes may affect the process of cell division.
Study finds new discovery of mechanism that controls cell division
Scientists at Umea University in Sweden have shown that the movement of a unique protein complex known as the Mediator along DNA genes may affect the process of cell division. The finding might be ...
Scientists Discover Protein Complex That Controls Cell Division
Researchers have discovered that how a special protein complex called the Mediator moves along genes in DNA may have an impact on how cells divide. The discovery may be important for future research ...
Slowing ALS Progression Through Gene Therapy
One such glimmer has emerged for those facing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, with a gene therapy from Umeå University ... made a discovery that could ...
Umeå University
Umeå University is Sweden’s fifth oldest university, best known for its Institute of Design and research into genomes. It began as a medical school in 1957 and was inaugurated eight years later as ...