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Researchers at the Universities of Turku and Helsinki found that women were more likely to volunteer for all-female paramilitary organizations if they had brothers or husbands who were currently serving in the military.  This result suggests that bonding with larger and frequently imagined communities, such as the nation state or religious groups, can arise from psychology mechanisms designed by evolution to increase cooperation among close relatives.

Library News in Brief brings you the latest news of the Library's work, new developments, acquisitions and services. The Library News in Brief will be published on the library web pages at the beginning of the month.

The university network is being upgraded and maintenanced during the first two weeks of July. During this time, there will be interruptions in network connectivity in buildings on the University Hill.

Teemu Niiranen has dedicated most of his adult life to studying high blood pressure. His work with hypertension has led to several research projects and changed international clinical guidelines. Turku Collegium for Science and Medicine at the University of Turku has made it possible for Niiranen to establish his own research group.

Researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new route that transports subcutaneously administered antibodies into lymph nodes in just a few seconds. The discovery enables targeted therapies for the immune system.

The University of Turku was placed 287th in the QS World University Rankings 2020. All in all, 1,000 different universities were globally ranked according to six indicators.

National Repository Library (NRL) has started using  Koha library system on June 18th 2019. Because of the change, the ordering of the article requests from NRL has also changed.

Scientists in the FinnBrain research project of the University of Turku discovered that the gut microbes of a 2.5-month-old infant are associated with the temperament traits manifested at six months of age. Temperament describes individual differences in expressing and regulating emotions in infants, and the study provides new information on the association between behaviour and microbes. A corresponding study has never been conducted on infants so young or in the same scale.