Modern immunotherapeutic anti-cancer drugs support a natural mechanism of the immune system to inhibit the growth of cancer cells. They dock onto a specific receptor of the killer cell and prevent it from being switched off by the cancer cells. This is a complex molecular process, which is known but […]
Day: 4 February 2021
Social media is increasingly used to spread fake news. The same problem can be found on the capital market – criminals spread fake news about companies in order to manipulate share prices. Researchers at the Universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt and the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana have developed an […]
Furthermore, the number of students arriving at BME is also growing while BME students can now choose to study at 8 different prestigious European universities after the university joined the EELISA alliance. The degree programmes of BME open the door to many foreign universities for Hungarian students while BME’s foreign […]
A sharp decrease in air travel is one of five new measures to be implemented at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in a bid to reduce the university’s environmental impact. All activities at SLU involve creating and sharing knowledge about sustainable systems and responsible use of natural resources, and […]
Tiny earthquakes, too small to be felt on the Earth’s surface, create chemical changes which turn groundwater acidic, according to newly-published research at the University of Strathclyde. The research paper ‘Microseismic events cause significant pH drops in groundwater’ published by Geophysical Research Letters, documents for the first time how tiny earthquakes, not […]
Today, neuroscience and robotics are developing hand in hand. Mikhail Lebedev, Academic Supervisor at HSE University’s Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces, spoke about how studying the brain inspires the development of robots. Robots are interesting to neuroscience and neuroscience is interesting to robots —this is what our article ‘Neuroengineering challenges of fusing […]
With the help of the new AcademySampo portal, one can easily find information about people who registered to study at the university in Finland between the 1640s and 1890s. On Runeberg Day, Friday 5 February, a new AcademySampo portal will be published, which will gather a huge amount of information […]
An international team of scientists from universities in Europe and South Africa found that “Sacred Forests” in Togo, West Africa play a vital role in the storage of carbon and could help to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is important to preserve the soil in these forests, which […]
On 26 January, Transform4Europe (T4E), an alliance of VMU and six other European universities that was officially recognized by the European Commission last year as a ‘European University’, held a virtual kick-off meeting at which it showcased its activities to the participating universities and the alliance’s external partners in the different European […]
The coronavirus pandemic doesn’t seem to discourage students from studying abroad, since the international Master’s degree programmes taught in English at the University of Eastern Finland attracted a record number of applications this year. There were a total of 1,996 applicants to the university’s 20 Master’s degree programmes taught in […]
