Nanoscience Center news

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is celebrating its 55th anniversary. Students, alumni and stakeholders are invited to join the festivities. The programme for the day features both a daytime celebration and an evening event.

The members of the Young Academy Finland for the 2025-2029 term have been elected. The Board of the Finnish Academy of Sciences selects the members for a four-year term by a call for nominations from the Academy's scientific sub-groups

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have received a funding of €1.4 million from the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation. The aim is to develop enabling technology for a robotic prosthesis.

Doctoral Researcher Kameyab Raza Abidi investigated the fundamental behavior of atomically thin metallenes using state-of-the-art computational approaches. Kameyab Raza Abidi debates on Friday 6.6.2025.

Postdoctoral researcher Visa Ruokolainen has received €30,000 funding from the Sakari Alhopuro Foundation to study intranuclear processes of herpesvirus infected cells. The herpes simplex virus 1 is also used as an oncolytic viral drug to combat cancers.

Recycling silver from waste is becoming important for securing the supply of the precious metal. The University of Jyväskylä were collaborating with the University of Helsinki to develop a new method for extracting silver from electronic waste.

Researchers at the Nanoscience Center have isolated giant viruses for the first time in Finland. The finding indicates that giant viruses are more prevalent than thought in soil and water, even in northern environments.

Researchers have developed an innovative ratiometric fluorosensor. The sensor can be used as a novel viral RNA sensing platform which offers a much-needed possibility to detect real-time viral RNA appearance during infection.

Five international researchers will begin their projects at the University of Jyväskylä after securing funding from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.

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PrecisionPhage aims at furthering the utilisation of phage research and innovative phage technologies against global health threat of antibiotic resistance.

The global SuperC consortium wants to realize a superconductor capable of operating at room temperature within a decade. If all its objectives are met, it will have a huge impact on global energy consumption.