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Changing climatic conditions can alter microbial biomass and community composition, increase microbial activities and trigger decomposition of the organic matter in the deeper peat layers by changing microbial processes and indirectly by affecting...

Rodent mothers produce more offspring after smelling odors produced by frightened males.

About three per cent of the world’s population is affected by valvular heart diseases.

University of Jyväskylä’s Laser laboratory of the Nanoscience Center (Laserlab-NSC) became a full member of Laserlab-Europe in the general assembly of the consortium at Salamanca, Spain.

A study recently published in Scientific Reports discovered that 65% of Lyme disease patients irrespective of their disease stage respond to several microbes.

Scientists from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, have found new functions and structural details of muscle attachment structures.

Pine sawflies terrify forest owners, but they help researchers understand the evolution of cooperation.

Do animals exposed to radioactive fallout need probiotics?

Professor Johanna Mappes and postdoctoral researcher Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga from Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland participated in international collaboration and researched how the wood tiger...

M.Sc. Matti Häkkilä defends his doctoral dissertation in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology "Biotic homogenization of forest bird communities under human influence".

M.Sc. Jaakko Junikka defends his doctoral dissertation in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology "Evolution of conflict and cooperation in human groups".