Published 28 October 2016 Common swift. Photo: N. Camilleri The common swift flies ten months on end without landing. The hypothesis on these birds’ life in the air was presented by British researcher Ron Lockley back in 1970, but it is only now that researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to prove the extreme lifestyle of the species. No other bird species remains in the air for as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-bird-can-stay-ten-months-air-without-landing - 2025-01-19

Published 29 October 2016 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The first transplantation of stem cells in patients with Parkinson's disease is almost within reach. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to control stem cells accurately in the lab in order to achieve successful and functional stem cell therapies for patients. - In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2025-01-19

Published 4 November 2016 Tuukka Ervasti/ imagebank.sweden.se What connection is there between food and drink with added sugar and coronary artery disease? Until recently, the question had been inadequately answered by research, but an extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has now contributed important clues. The study in question focuses on sucrose. Sucrose occurs naturally in fruit and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/association-between-sugary-diet-and-coronary-artery-disease - 2025-01-19

Published 11 November 2016 Propionibacterium acnes (Photo: Matthias Mörgelin, Lund University) There are more and more examples of the ways in which we can benefit from our bacteria. According to researcher Rolf Lood from Lund University in Sweden, this is true for the skin as well. He has shown that the most common bacteria on human skin secrete a protein which protects us from the reactive oxyge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skin-bacteria-could-protect-against-disease - 2025-01-19

Published 14 November 2016 Photo: Arne Sjöström Seven years ago divers discovered the oldest known stationary fish traps in northern Europe off the coast of southern Sweden. Since then, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age site. They now believe the location was a lagoon environment where Mesolithic humans lived during parts of the year.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped-out - 2025-01-19

Published 18 November 2016 Lund University’s 350th anniversary is highlighted with two stamps produced by PostNord, Sweden’s postal authority. Although the stamps were first released on 10 November in Stockholm, today was the official ceremonial launch in Lund. The ceremony that took place in the main University building was attended by the Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz, designer Gustav Mår

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Published 2 December 2016 In preparing for the University’s jubilee year which starts on 19 December, Lund University is now publishing a popular science book entitled “Lund University over 350 Years – History and Stories”. The book is about the University’s journey from a small provincial academy with 14 professors and 80 students to the major international university that it is today, recurrentl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/jubilee-book-highlights-history-lund-university-popular-form - 2025-01-19

Published 2 December 2016 Yang de Marinis With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors, researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to “turn off” an enzyme that proved to play a key role in the regulation of the diabetes-associated TXNIP gene. The results are decreased cell death and increased insulin production in the genetically modified pancreatic beta cells. In a re

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/crispr-editing-pancreatic-cells-reduced-cell-death-and-increased-insulin-secretion - 2025-01-19

Published 2 December 2016 Anders Håkansson (Photo: Apelöga) Anders Håkansson, of Lund University, will be the first professor of medicine in Sweden to focus specifically on gambling addiction. Research into gambling addiction and gambling problems has been enabled by an initiative financed by state-owned company Svenska Spel. The initiative began in 2015 when Anders Håkansson was appointed as a se

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedens-first-professor-medicine-specialising-gambling-addiction - 2025-01-19

Published 6 December 2016 Together with his research team, Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics at Lund University in Sweden, has developed a technology for smarter transistors which could be used in electronics that operate on low energy, such as sensors for the Internet of Things. Using the new transistors on a large scale could save enormous amounts of energy. Transistors are the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smarter-transistors-could-be-three-times-more-energy-efficient - 2025-01-19

Published 7 December 2016 Could online shopping help boost city centres in decline? Engineering students at Lund University in Sweden want to reinvent city commerce by bringing local shops together through a single app. WATCH VIDEO STORYMany shopping districts have experienced a decrease in revenue as customers increasingly turn to shopping malls and e-commerce.When Victor Sandberg wrote his Maste

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-save-your-city-centre-shopping-online - 2025-01-19

Published 8 December 2016 (Photo: Mostphotos) Researchers at Lund and Malmö universities in Sweden have measured a biomarker in cell-free blood plasma which can be linked to an overactive stress system in suicidal individuals. This biomarker can hopefully be used in future psychiatric studies. “We don’t expect the marker to be able to predict who will try to commit suicide, but it may serve as a b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-biomarker-higher-suicide-attempters-and-associated-stress-response - 2025-01-19

Published 9 December 2016 Swedish road freight companies that abide by work environment legislation, taxation regulations and environmental agreements have had a hard time surviving on a market where illegal transport operators can perform the same services at a much lower cost. A new app being developed at Lund University in Sweden makes the entire chain of transport visible to consumers. WATCH V

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-app-makes-transport-industry-transparent - 2025-01-19

Published 12 December 2016 Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law have launched a new human rights hub. The Lund Human Rights Research Hub is meant to be a core driver in developing new research, education, and dissemination of human rights to meet the most pressing human rights challenges of today. The hub was officially launched on December 8.Jona

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-human-rights-research-hub-launched-lund - 2025-01-19

Published 15 December 2016 Helena Jernström and Karin Elebro It is known from previous research that the ER-beta estrogen receptor often has a protective effect. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has found that this effect is more pronounced in patients that undergo chemotherapy. “If the finding is confirmed in further studies, it could contribute to women with the highest risk getting mo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-study-predicts-better-response-chemotherapy - 2025-01-19

Published 19 December 2016 Photo: Jonas Andersson With a ceremony inside the main University building, Lund University’s 350th anniversary has now officially begun, and the extensive jubilee programme packed with more than 250 public events over the next 13 months has been released. The jubilee will last from 19 December 2016 until 28 January 2018, and these dates are based on the founding and ina

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-celebrates-350-years - 2025-01-19

Published 22 December 2016 Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is in Rovaniemi, Finland. In fact, the same calculation us

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2025-01-19

Published 12 January 2017 Johan Jakobsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a sign

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2025-01-19

Published 12 January 2017 The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers ,niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-01-19

Published 13 January 2017 Shatter cone, Siljan (Photo: Sanna Alwmark) A celestial body with a diameter of five kilometres crashed into the Earth’s surface, causing the formation of the so-called Siljan Ring in Dalarna, Sweden. The original impact crater was approximately 60 kilometres in diameter and the bedrock was covered by a layer of sediments 2.5 km thick when the projectile struck, according

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2025-01-19