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 tr... Read more
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, f... Read more
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 Linköpi... Read more
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... Read more
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 B... Read more
New technique enables fast, accurate and noninvasive measurement of bacteria levels It’s important to know how microorganisms — particularly pathogenic microbes — grow under various conditio... Read more
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... Read more
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.... Read more
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 thesi... Read more
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 t... Read more
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 tr... Read more
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 th... Read more