Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences - News

In his doctoral thesis, Muhammad Waseem Khan, M.Sc., studied the possible adverse health effects of human exposure to low frequency magnetic fields.

MSc Muhammad Usman Rasheed's thesis assesses the effects of warming, nitrogen addition, ozone and shoot herbivory on Scots pine seedlings based on two field experiments

The University of Eastern Finland secured a total of 3.9 million euros of research funding for five consortia.

Several UEF researchers representing the fields of medicine and molecular medicine were ranked in world's top 10,000 scientists for career-long impact. Ranked in the top 100 in their own field were particularly researchers representing forest sciences.

Vaginal delivery and breastfeeding supported the development of asthma protection associated gut microbiota at the age of two months.

Admixing genes of locally adapted wild fish with the hatchery fish might enhance stocking results by increasing the frequency of adaptive behavioural phenotypes, according to the doctoral dissertation of Nico Alioravainen, MSc.

Research could potentially lead to improved welfare and fewer animals being used for experiments.