Category Archives: General biology

(Icelandic) Maurar Íslands

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(Icelandic) Eru virkilega til hættuleg afbrigði veirunnar sem veldur COVID-19?

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(Icelandic) Eru til tvö eða fleiri afbrigði af kórónuveirunni sem veldur COVID-19?

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(Icelandic) Hvort er líklegra að veiran sem veldur COVID-19 verði hættulegri eða hættuminni fyrir menn vegna stökkbreytinga?

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(Icelandic) Getur kórónuveiran sem veldur COVID-19 stökkbreyst og orðið hættulegri?

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Videos from conference of Bioethics of clinical innovation and unproven methods, Copenhagen, 9 April 2019

Bioethics of clinical innovation and unproven methods, Copenhagen, 9 April 2019 Conference organized by the Nordic Committee on Bioethics in collaboration with Centre for Legal Studies in Welfare and Market at the University of Copenhagen. The central questions were: How … Continue reading

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(Icelandic) Ný grein um bleikjuafbrigðin í Þingvallavatni

Icelandic press about the paper on differentiation between the sympatric morphs in Lake Thingvallavatn.

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Útdauði tegunda og blinda okkar á hægar breytingar

Útdauði dýra er raunverulegt vandamál og hann getur haft alvarlegar afleiðingar. Ástæður útdauða eru margvíslegar, ofveiðar, eyðing búsvæða, landnýting, mengun frá t.d. landbúnaði og iðnaði, og vitanlega loftslagsbreytingar. Í fyrri viku bárust tíðindi af því að fyrsta spendýrið hafi dáið … Continue reading

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Bioethics of clinical innovation and unproven methods Copenhagen, 9 April 2019

Conference organized by the Nordic Committee on Bioethics in collaboration with Centre for Legal Studies in Welfare and Market at the University of Copenhagen , in Copenhagen, 9 April 2019, 09:00 - 17:00. How are clinical innovations and unproven methods … Continue reading

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Talk in Holar. Evolution of developmental variation, rapid divergence, plasticity and cryptic genetic variation

Couple of weeks back I was lucky enough to visit Holar University College, in the north of Iceland. There we talked about ongoing work on the Arctic charr system, including genetic variation between sympatric morphs in Lake Þingvallavatn. And some … Continue reading

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