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The University of Eastern Finland has years of experience in research addressing the cultivation of strawberries. The latest cultivation experiments show that strawberries can be grown cost-effectively and self-sufficiently, even from seeds.

Periodontitis, an inflammation of the structures supporting the teeth, significantly increases the risk of stroke in people under 50 years of age who do not have any known predisposing causes.

The VR-Haptic Thinkers’ second meetup attracted a good number of attendees from all over the world, with more than 29 different countries represented.

12–14 June 2024, UEF Joensuu campus hosts the significant international conference Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities that addresses topics of cultural mobility and multiethnicity.

Researchers from the Neuro-Innovation PhD programme are organising, for the first time, an English-language science camp as part of SnellmanEDU’s Children’s University.

The doctoral conferment ceremony of the University of Eastern Finland culminated in the ceremonial conferment of degrees in Joensuu today. A total of 82 doctorates were conferred, 13 of which were honorary doctorates conferred upon persons chosen by the university’s faculties.

The doctoral dissertation of Yasemin Kontkanen, M.Soc.Sc, will be examined at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies.

Basic science talks on early inflammatory activation in neurodevelopmental disorders were accompanied by perspectives from autistic people, educational professionals, and clinicians.

Some cancer cells can survive chemotherapy, which may lead to cancer recurrence. A new study reveals how cancer cells can perform this "evasive maneuver” in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

A new study revealed that dogs can learn to identify concentrations of eucalyptus hydrolate that are clearly below the detection threshold of sophisticated analytical instruments used today.