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About half of children with celiac disease have problems with enamel damage. UiB researchers have now found that the cause is an immune reaction to one of the most common proteins in cow’s milk.

When Nagaoka University of Technology in Japan hosted a hybrid event to showcase links between science and business, UiB’s industry partner Aanderaa stepped up to the challenge. The event originated in the university’s international commitments towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG14), Life Below Water.

The Appendicularian Facility at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen is one of only four in the world. This month, guest researchers traveled from the U.S. to conduct experiments in this unique laboratory.

Kirstine Kolsrud has been appointed as the new director of Faculty of Social Sciences (UiB). «I look forward to leading the wonderful, competent administration at the faculty,» she says.

Offshore wind farms can “steal” the capacity of other farms by up to 20 percent up to 50 kilometres away, due to wake loss. The regulation is ambiguous and needs to be developed to accommodate large-scale offshore wind development in the North Sea and other ocean areas, according to PhD Candidate Eirik Finseraas at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.

“There are huge knowledge gaps regarding the deep sea. My scientific project is to help fill some of those knowledge gaps,” says researcher Pedro Ribeiro. Inadvertently, this has led him and his colleagues into the hot topic debate on deep-sea mining.

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