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A simple blood test with 90% accuracy that shows whether a patient has Alzheimer’s disease has floored the research community, which is calling it a gamechanger. Oskar Hansson, professor of neurology at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, is leading the research team that has rapidly taken a major step towards better diagnostics. “The blood test will make it easier for general practitio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-type-blood-test-gives-more-reliable-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-11-21

The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University in Sweden has received major funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation – operational support worth SEK 150 million plus SEK 68 million for recruitment packages in data-driven life science. During the period 2014–2015, the foundation granted SEK 825 million to establish four Wallenberg Centres for Molecular Medicine (WCMM)

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/knut-and-alice-wallenberg-foundation-funds-molecular-medicine-research - 2025-11-21

Large ships often run on heavy fuel oil, something that leads to pollution and considerable emissions. However, one promising alternative is building or converting engines to run on methanol instead. The Fastwater project led by Lund University in Sweden has received EUR 5 million from the EU to develop the new technology. In 2022, a pilot boat is expected to be launched. The Paris Agreement and a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/methanol-could-be-climate-neutral-option-shipping - 2025-11-21

A new project that aims to build motors made of proteins has received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant, and will be coordinated by Lund University in Sweden. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed molecular machines, that is, molecules that convert light into energy, or energy into motion. The model for these tiny machines is found in cell biology, where molec

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-11-21

Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cannot regulate their own body temperature, which is instead strongly influenced by the temperature in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2025-11-21

A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk group, so forms of treatment were modified. Now a group of physicians at Lund University want to evaluate how these new forms of treatment were experienced by the patients themselve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-11-21

Men perceive themselves as having less power in their private than in their public lives, a new study from Lund University has suggested. Furthermore, both men and women agree: power in your private life matters more than that in public life. Power is often associated with men who possess visible status and money. But it can also be exercised in one’s private life to initiate and relationships wit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/men-feel-less-powerful-their-private-lives - 2025-11-21

The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in in their interiors. Binary stars are systems containing two stars that orbit each other thanks to their mutua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2025-11-21

Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for treatment of diabetes in the future. The study is published in Diabetes Care. Wh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-11-21

One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from passenger air travel. Thus, there is good reason to view air travel in a new light. It is actually an elitist activity, rather than what the aviation industry would like us to believe – that everyone flies. This is claimed by Stefan Gössling at Lund University and Linnaeus University in a new art

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/one-percent-worlds-population-accounts-more-half-flying-emissions - 2025-11-21

The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine. “It feels very exciting and a little solemn to be entrusted with the role of vice-chancellor. The positions brin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-be-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-11-21

A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology among others, and was recently presented in a doctoral thesis. The brain is both our most

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-11-21

How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At first, the line looks like a jumble. It makes turns in all directi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-11-21

The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an online format. Our climate researcher Markku Rummukainen comments on the event. When

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/global-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-11-21

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that validated biomarkers can reveal an individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Using a model that combines the levels of two specific proteins in the blood of those with mild memory impairment, the researchers are able to predict the risk of developing Alzheimer’s. The researchers have also developed an app that doctors can use to give

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/app-predicts-risk-developing-alzheimers - 2025-11-21

Is Africa rising? That’s one of many questions covered in LUSEM’s newly launched open global online course (MOOC) – African development, from the past to the present. Taking on an economic history perspective of the continent, the course covers the past centuries – with an emphasis on the past hundred years. With more than two decades worth of research and fieldwork on Africa, Lund University Econ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-launched-mooc-africas-development - 2025-11-21

So far, the way dolphins navigate, find food and socialise using sound signals has baffled researchers. Josefin Starkhammar, senior lecturer at the Division for Biomedical Engineering, together with colleagues, has now developed an algorithm which brings us closer to understanding the cetaceans’ phenomenal signalling system. In future, the new algorithm could be used to protect dolphins and to dev

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-algorithm-brings-us-closer-dolphin-communication - 2025-11-21

One wants to shed new light on mysterious dark matter. The other wants to understand how tendons are constructed and how they heal after an injury. Researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni and professor of biomedical technology Hanna Isaksson are now receiving SEK 40 million from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, is recei

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-two-lund-university-researchers - 2025-11-21

Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, who led the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, will take up the appointment of visiting professor of Pharmacology at Lund University in Sweden on 1 January 2021. “During my years as a student and researcher in Lund I had many mentors who inspired me. I want to give something back and share my experience of what drives good innovatio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mikael-dolsten-head-research-pfizer-appointed-visiting-professor-lund-university - 2025-11-21

Mikael Dolsten was an advisor to President Obama, worked with Joe Biden on Cancer Moonshot, was involved in the R&D for some 30 drugs – and he is now leading the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine as head of research at Pfizer. It is an impressive career to say the least, and it started in Lund, Sweden. The circle will be closed on 1 January 2021, when he takes up his visit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mikael-dolsten-head-research-pfizer-appointed-visiting-professor-lund-university-0 - 2025-11-21