2010-01-07
When ribosomes produce protein in all living cells, they do so through a chemical reaction that happens so fast that scientists have been puzzled. Using large quantum mechanical calculations of the reaction center of the ribosome, Johan Åqvist's group at Uppsala University has now provided the first detailed picture of the reaction. The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2010-01-07
Today, Prof Per Ahlberg, together with colleagues from Poland, presents the earliest known fossil footprints of land vertebrates in the leading journal Nature. The footprints, which are about 395 million years old and come from Zachelmie Quarry in Poland, show that land vertebrates evolved much earlier than had been thought. [link to article]
2010-01-07
Together with partners in Groningen, Munich, Montpellier and Harvard, Biology at Uppsala University now launch MEME (the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology). This research oriented master programme offers scholarships for talented students from the whole world. Students will start the programme at Uppsala or Groningen and will spend at least one semester at a partner university.
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