University of Copenhagen

Overweight & Obesity

Some guts are better than others at harvesting energy, study shows

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that a portion of the Danish population has a composition of gut microbes that, on average, extracts more energy from food than do the microbes in the guts of their ...

Neuroscience

Major discovery about mammalian brains surprises researchers

In a new breakthrough to understand more about the mammalian brain, University of Copenhagen researchers have made an incredible discovery. Namely, a vital enzyme that enables brain signals is switching on and off at random, ...

Medications

Traditional medicine could give new hope to heart patients

At the European Football Championship last summer, time suddenly stood still. The buzzing tension that filled the air disappeared in a matter of seconds when footballer Christian Eriksen suddenly collapsed, died and was resuscitated ...

Oncology & Cancer

How the immune system can help us diagnose cancer

One of the deadliest forms of cancer is biliary tract cancer. Only one in three patients diagnosed with the disease is operable. The rest must settle for life-sustaining treatment.

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