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Skin deep innovation: Psoriasis patients can soon ditch the cream

If University of Copenhagen's 38,000 students are representative, 1,300 of them have the skin condition plaque psoriasis. A lot of people have it, but current treatments are impractical. Two UCPH researchers have developed a clever alternative.

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You did well — so why do you feel like a fraud? The psychology of impostor syndrome

Academics can feel like they’ve tricked their colleagues into overestimating them. This researcher knows how to fight it.

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Taking on dental shame and inequality in Denmark

Denmark ranks among the worst for dental health inequality — and it can lead to isolation and shame. Meet a researcher who is driven by a sense of fairness, working to help the elderly and the vulnerable.

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New AI model to transform how asylum cases are judged

In a few years time, and with an AI model under development at the Faculty of Law, we can predict how religion, nationality or education can influence the outcome of an asylum case. The aim is to prevent bias in case processing.

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Working environment

Publish or perish? He chose to just walk away

Former research group leader Luis Toledo calls it a 'detox' to leave academia, where he constantly swung between success and failure.

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People

Astrophysicist honoured for uncovering black holes’ orbital secrets

Astrophysicist Johan Samsing gets the MERAC Prize for his research on the movement of black holes billions of light-years away.

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Working environment

Another one in the water: Law professor latest to fall into South Campus canal

Several people have fallen into the canal by the Faculty of Law, but those responsible refuse to put up fencing. »It is generally safe to walk around them,« is the official response.

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From farm to screen: How a TV documentary funded pig emotion research

We now know that pigs' grunts can be translated into underlying emotions after an unusual collaboration between University of Copenhagen biologists and a documentary production company.

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Breakthrough on life-threatening skin condition: To be applied to other diseases

Researchers have cured seven patients of a life-threatening skin disorder with a new method that finds defective proteins. Now they're looking at using the method on types of cancer.

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Sigh of relief: We are not slaves to social media

Experiment in the field of cognitive psychology shows that social media do not overload or ruin our attention capacity. We are actually good at choosing the information we consider valuable.

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