2020.12.01 | Department of Biology
The sperm whale is the world's largest toothed predator, and they consume as many fish and squid as the entire global fishing industry. However, we have not, until recently, understood how such large predators find their food in the deep ocean. By putting a data logger on the tip of the nose of a sperm whale, researchers from Aarhus University…
2020.11.25 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR – which allows direct editing of our genes – evolved and adapted, we are now one step closer to understanding the basis of the constant struggle for survival that takes place in nature. The results can be used in future biotechnologies.
2020.11.23 | Computer Science, Department of Geoscience, Department of Mathematics
The Independent Research Fund Denmark has just awarded some of the foremost research talents, Sapere Aude research leader grants. There are three recipients from the Faculty of Natural Sciences (NAT), and they will help renew Danish research and create the foundation for future centres of excellence and research breakthroughs.
2020.11.18 | Department of Physics
Aarhus University is collaborating with three Danish universities to establish a national satellite programme in collaboration with the Danish Industry Foundation. The programme is designed to generate even more graduates with high-tech skills, and it will be part of students' degree programmes. A grant of DKK 4.25 million from the Danish Industry…
2020.11.12 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
In a screening for a functional impact to the neuronal differentiation process, Danish researchers identified a specific circular RNA, circZNF827, which surprisingly “taps the brake” on neurogenesis. The results provide an interesting example of co-evolution of a circRNA, and its host-encoded protein product, that regulate each other’s function,…
2020.11.03 | Department of Physics
Georg Bruun and Nikolaj Thomas Zinner have both been appointed professors in theoretical physics at Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University.
