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The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation, and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, afternoon two beams of protons circulated in opposite…

According to an international study, minor genetic differences can affect the ability to utilise the energy of various nutrients. This work shows how nutritional planning based on genetic data could promote the development of personalised…

Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of a substance is changed, through the…

An international reseach consortium led by the University of Helsinki has performed the largest study to date evaluating transferability of genome-wide polygenic risk scores across ancestries. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) measure genetic…

As a rule, students of the University of Helsinki attended teaching remotely during the pandemic, from spring 2020 to spring 2022. Under the direction of Academy Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro, a research group surveyed student wellbeing…

The University of Helsinki’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Services Team announces the call for applications for its first pre-incubator programme produced in collaboration with the Helsinki Think Company and powered by the City of…

Helsinki University Press (HUP) is an open scholarly publishing house operating under Helsinki University Library, whose publishing activities have rapidly grown and become increasingly international in its first two years of operations.…

The new collective agreement is valid from 8 April 2022 to 31 March 2024. In 2022, wages will be increased by a general increase of 1.45% on 1 June 2022 and local instalment by 0.45% on 1 December 2022. The pay rises for 2023 will be…

Two landmark genetic studies on schizophrenia have just appeared together in the journal Nature.The first study of more than 121,000 people, from an international consortium called SCHEMA, identified extremely rare protein-disrupting…

The Marcus Wallenberg Prize is an international prize with the purpose of recognizing, encouraging and stimulating pathbreaking scientific achievements, which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development…