Events
Life sciences information meetings spring 2016: Establishing interdisciplinary research groups
Information meetings at departments and faculties at UiO in May and June. Article in Norwegian, but the meetings are held in English when requested.
Guest lecture June 2: Mapping the first week of human embryo development using single cell RNA-sequencing
Fredrik Lanner from Karolinska Institutet will present the work leading up to the recent publication on gene expression in early human embryos, and present his plans to use CRISPR technology to edit genes in early human embryos, as one of the first researchers in the world.
Video from Life Science Lunch on epigenetics May 12
How do our genes and the environment shape us and make us who we are? Watch the movie nurture vs nature and the talk about the epigenetic clock.
Research News
Immunotherapy: Fighting cancer with the help of someone else's immune cells
Researchers from the University of Oslo/the Oslo University Hospital and the Netherlands Cancer Institute show that even if one's own immune cells cannot recognize and fight their tumors, someone else's immune cells might. Read the Science Daily-article about the research.
Humanities in the life sciences
A number of researchers in the humanities are contributing fresh insight into human life and society. See examples on how the research at the Faculty of Humanities is linked to the life sciences.
- More research news from UiO:Life Science, faculties, departments and UiO’s research magazine Apollon
New videos
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NRK Kunnskapskanalen: Life Science
What are life sciences, and how can we create a leading Nordic Life Science hub for research, education, innovation and business in Oslo? Parts of the opening conference for UiO:Life Science – Oslo Life Science – February 16 – was shown on TV May 14. -
Reuters video: Nasal spray device could help those with autism or schizophrenia
Postdoctoral fellow Daniel Quintana at the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), the Faculty of Medicine at UiO and Oslo University Hospital, explains how they tested the spray that contains oxytocin.
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What newborn babies seeWhat do newborn babies see? Norwegian and Swedish psychologists and computer scientists has looked into this. Professor Tim Brennan at the Department of Psychology at UiO is one of the researchers.
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In the Norwegian version of the newsletter you may also watch videos from lectures at UiO for students in upper secondary school.
