Research news
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Better food in Norwegian kindergartens
Mar 28, 2012 02:38 PM
As the parent of a young child attending kindergarten, you can take extra pleasure in this piece of good news: the food that your child is served in kindergarten is healthier than it has been for a long time.
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With a license to kill
Mar 1, 2012 04:22 PM
The body's natural killer cells are programmed to kill without the intervention of any safety mechanism. Now the secret behind the process has been revealed.
Research events
PhD student at Department of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, Kjersti S. Grotmol will give a presentation of her thesis on the prevalence, course and risk factors for depressive symptoms and alcohol problems in a national cohort of doctors. They have been followed up from their final semester in medical school and 15 years into their career.
The objective of the meeting is to highlight key aspects of DNA damage and repair in aging and the pathogenesis of neurological disease, and to improve our understanding of how nerve cells communicate in the healthy and diseased brain.