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Category Archives: Research
Personalised Medicine: What’s in It for You?
Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy was based on genetic testing, which is the basis of personalised medicine. Learn more about personalised medicine and how you can benefit from it. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Medical sciences, Research
Tagged diabetes, Estonia, Estonian genome chip, genetic risks, genetics, genome chip, health inventory, health risks, personalised medicine, prevention
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Anti-Ageing Lifestyle Keeps You Young for Longer
Find out how and why your lifestyle choices can prevent premature ageing and increase your mental and physical well-being. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences, Studies
Tagged age management, anti-aging medicine, health, lifestyle, successful aging, well-being, wellness
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Solving the Problem of Consciousness
You are a very complicated machine, yet you don’t feel like that – it feels like something to be you. Neuroscientist Jaan Aru looks into how the neural machinery of the brain produces conscious experience. Continue reading
Posted in Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged binocular rivalry, brain, brain research, cognitive psychology, consciousness, neural activity, neurobiological mechanism, neuroscience, perception
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How Greenfinches Help Our Understanding of the Immune System
Tuul Sepp. a young and talented researcher of animal ecology, knows that parasites rule this world. She looks into our defence system with the help of Estonian greenfinches – find out how. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged animal ecology, birds, ecoimmunology, greenfinches, hosts, immune defence, immune system, immunology, multidisciplinary, parasites
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Can The Financial Crisis Snowball Be Avoided?
Andres Kuusk from UT Institute of Economics argues that sound macroeconomic fundamentals and policies do not protect countries against crisis caused by ‘financial contagion’. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Social sciences
Tagged economics, financial contagion, financial crisis, herding behaviour, international finance, investor behaviour, macroeconomic fundamentals, PhD, PhD thesis
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The Curious Case of Estonia’s Fashion Sense
Natalia Hoffman, an independent researcher into the Estonian visual communication, has examined the local fashion scene (including junk shops and flea markets) and came out with some interesting observations. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Humanities, Research
Tagged charity shops, Estonia, Estonian fashion, fashion, flea markets, junk shops, Kihnu, national costume, student fashion
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4 New Recipes for Becoming a Top Researcher
Find out the 4 new recipes on how to become a top researcher, shared by the UT Professor of Experimental Psychology Jüri Allik who belongs to the top 1 per cent of the world’s most-cited scientists in his field. Continue reading
Posted in Career, Humanities, Medical sciences, Natural and exact sciences, Research, Social sciences
Tagged PhD, recipe, research, researcher, scientist, success, top scientist
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