Published 8 June 2021 Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. (Photo: Johan Joelsson) For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-04-21

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 9 June 2021 Since April 2020, volunteer participants 18 years and older who reside in Sweden have been eligible to report daily their health status in the free app. Photo: iStockphoto During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-tracks-spread-covid-19-sweden - 2025-04-21

Published 9 June 2021 Lund University has been ranked 87th in the world, climbing 10 spots in the QS World University Rankings 2022. This makes Lund the top ranked university in Sweden, and one of two Swedish universities currently in the top 100. QS evaluates just over 1,600 of the world's universities and ranks 1,300 of them. In total, there are about 26,000 universities in the world. Lund Unive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-top-100-ranking - 2025-04-21

Published 14 June 2021 Photo: Ragnhild Haarstad, Stockholm City Museum Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies. Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/free-and-nutritious-school-lunches-help-create-richer-and-healthier-adults - 2025-04-21

Published 15 June 2021 Photo: Mostphotos An international group of clinicians and scientists from MIT and Lund University, among others, have analysed how individual genetic changes affect the heart muscle. The researchers have created a new computer tool that could help tailor treatments for heart patients with inherited heart disease. The study is published in NPJ Genomic Medicine. (TEXT: Agata

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/computer-method-help-predict-outcomes-heart-patients - 2025-04-21

Published 16 June 2021 The results were presented at a press conference in Lund Since 2005, the guidelines for the care of unconscious cardiac arrest patients have been to cool the body temperature down to 33 degrees Celsius. A large, randomised clinical trial led by Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden has shown that this treatment does not improve survival. The study is published in the Ne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/induced-hypothermia-after-cardiac-arrest-did-not-improve-survival - 2025-04-21

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 14 June 2022 Is it possible to combine an interest in fashion and at the same time choose sustainable and ethical choices when shopping for clothes? Photo: iStockphoto On-trend clothes that you only wear a few times – in the beginning of the 2000s the fashion industry started speeding up production. Today, it account

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fast-fashion-has-huge-impact-environment - 2025-04-21

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 15 June 2022 Children of immigrants are sorted on the basis of preconceived notions with measures that do not take into account their own perspectives. Photo: iStockphoto How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/other-sides-story-how-immigrants-children-experience-life - 2025-04-21

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 16 June 2022 X-Lab is a makerspace at LTH that offers an innovation environment, workshop and co-working surface. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg A regional project led by Lund University called Make Space för Verkstad has mapped out around 70 creative spaces and labs around Skåne with the aim of highlighting a common infrastr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mosaic-creative-spaces-connects-knowledge-and-innovation - 2025-04-21

Published 16 June 2022 Lund University has been ranked 95th in the world in the QS World University rankings, making it the top ranked comprehensive university in Sweden. QS has ranked almost 1 500 universities, placing the top 100 within the top 7%. The universities are assessed using five indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, internat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-top-100-global-ranking - 2025-04-21

Published 17 June 2022 Photo: iStock/SciePro When asthmatics’ respiratory tracts are exposed to dust mites, their immune response becomes less effective, which can lead to a weaker immune system. People who suffer from asthma associated with infection may therefore be more susceptible to secondary viral or bacterial infections. According to the researchers, the results suggest that asthmatics shou

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-dust-mites-and-respiratory-infections - 2025-04-21

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 22 June 2022 Art and culture can touch us on new levels that provide new perspectives and new issues. Photo: iStockphoto Art and culture have the capacity to make us aware of our relationship to ourselves and others, our world and our time. Using existential sustainability as an umbrella term, we can investigate new angl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-and-culture-bring-us-existential-awareness - 2025-04-21

Published 29 June 2022 Photo: Jessika Sellergren When you take a dip in a Swedish lake, it is not unusual to find you cannot see the lake bottom. Lake water coloured brown by organic material can be an inconvenience for swimming tourists, but mainly causes problems for the ecosystem and drinking water. Focusing on Lake Bolmen, researchers, public authorities and local organisations are now joining

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/many-reasons-take-care-lake-water - 2025-04-21

Published 15 August 2022 During Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 August international students are arriving in Lund. The autumn's Arrival Days take place in newly renovated premises in AF-borgen. Arrival Days aim to welcome international students to Lund University, provide them with information and ensure that they are settled in before the start of their studies. For two days, staff from Lund University

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/arrival-days-welcome-international-students-lund-university - 2025-04-21

Published 17 August 2022 Photo: iStock/Paul Campbell Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease and the results have now been published in the journal Brain. Basic medical research often faces the challenge of developing disease models that corresp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-reprogram-human-skin-cells-aged-neurons-study-neurodegenerative-disorders - 2025-04-21

By Petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 23 August 2022 Children taking part in the TEDDY study in Sweden have an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes and are screened for the disease. Research nurse Jessica Melin takes a blood sample from one of the participants. Photograph: Kennet Ruona Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? World

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2025-04-21

Published 23 August 2022 Photo: Unsplash By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history.The standard dating method since the 1950s has

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-develop-first-ai-based-method-dating-archeological-remains - 2025-04-21

Published 24 August 2022 Photo: iStock/andresr Around 80% of people with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer’s disease, often when they are between 40 and 50 years old. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that a simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome with a high degree of certainty. The findings are important for several reasons, not least the abil

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-detects-alzheimers-people-down-syndrome - 2025-04-21

Published 25 August 2022 The environment in which breast cancer arises –the interplay between the patient’s BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins –is of importance for the prognosis. This is shown in a study from Lund University in Sweden. The knowledge could further enhance precision medicine in breast cancer. Major advances in diagnostics and treatment have improved survival rates among

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis - 2025-04-21

Published 30 August 2022 Photo: Unsplash The most common analytical method within population genetics is deeply flawed, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This may have led to incorrect results and misconceptions about ethnicity and genetic relationships. The method has been used in hundreds of thousands of studies, affecting results within medical genetics and even commercia

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-reveals-flaws-popular-genetic-method - 2025-04-21