The word “brainwashing” usually triggers negative associations. But our brain health for sure depends on it. Scientists at the University of Oslo have recently made new and important discoveries about how and why this happens when we are sleeping.
2023
Eating nuts and seeds frequently can reduce the risk of heart disease, shows a major new study review.
Many employees in the offshore sector work night shifts. This may make them more susceptible to aggressive prostate cancer than if they only worked during the day.
Obesity or excess fat around your waist in mid-life, can have a negative effect on old age: you double your risk of becoming frail.
A billion people worldwide suffer from brain diseases such as dementia, addiction and depression. Scientists carrying out brain research at UiO are now contributing to a more efficient utilisation of research data by developing 3D brain atlases and new analytic tools.
Imagine a horse race, where the winner takes it all and is awarded both food and protection against enemies. In the same way, bacteria compete with one another in the gut of newborn babies.
20 years ago, four out of ten European children ate fruit and vegetables daily. Today, the proportion is the same, in spite of schemes to provide children with fruit at school. Why hasn’t there been more improvement?
Every year, many people get ill from the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, and some variants are resistant to nearly all kinds of antibiotics. A team of scientists have now found out more about how infections from these variants arise.