By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 2 January 2023 Johan Flygare and Aurélie Baudet, stem cell researchers at Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. Stem cells programmed to produce insulin in people with type 1 diabetes or to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack. Gene and cell therapies that improve cancer treatments. These new and innovative therapies

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/advanced-treatments-future-are-soon-here - 2025-03-25

Published 16 December 2016 Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stret

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-03-25

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 13 May 2019 Photo:Louise Larsson From internal training courses for university lecturers in which the participants take a deep dive into case method teaching, to dedicated conferences and competitions. The alternatives to traditional classroom teaching are increasing and one of them is known as case method teaching, wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-case-method-teaching-spreads-one-lecturer-another - 2025-03-25

Published 12 February 2021 Photo: Istock/Jirapong Manustrong Data literacy is increasing its importance for current and future professionals. But what is ‘data literacy’ exactly and how do LUSEM educators work with it? We asked Blerim Emruli, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, and recently announced as one of the select participants in the Inaugural Professor Ambassador Class at Qlik. Senior Lecturer

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/data-has-power-transform-business-and-improve-society - 2025-03-26

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 31 March 2021 The forest has many benefits. What climate benefit you get by leaving the forest for storing carbon, or by extracting biomass that can replace fossil raw materials, largely depends on the time horizon. Photo: kn1/IStockphoto. The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, i

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-03-25

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 22 June 2023 Mohamed Eldeeb defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 9, 2023. With a passion for scientific discovery with clinical impact, Mohamed has dedicated the last four years to unraveling the mysteries as to why some children develop pediatric leukemia and others don’t. His research shed light on the mechanisms that p

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/mechanisms-initiation-and-suppression-pediatric-leukemia-phd-interview-mohamed-eldeeb - 2025-03-25

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-mouse-model-confirms-how-type-2-diabetes-develops - 2025-03-25

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 30 September 2021 A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Fredrik Schlyter Researchers have successfully mapped the entire genome of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle. The breakthrough paves the way for new research into bark beetles and better prospects for effective pest control of a species that can destroy more than 100 million cubic

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/entire-genome-common-forest-pest-now-revealed - 2025-03-25

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-gps-system-microorganisms-could-revolutionise-police-work - 2025-03-25

By lina [dot] tornquist [at] innovation [dot] lus [dot] se (Lina Törnquist) - published 15 January 2025 Much of the world's infrastructure is made of concrete, which presents a challenge when it cracks and needs repair. Traditional repair methods involve cutting away a large amount of material. Now researchers at Lund University are investigating an innovative solution: using fungi to mend concret

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/sustainable-construction-how-fungi-research-lund-university-could-revolutionise-infrastructure - 2025-03-25

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-03-25

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson & Jessika Sellergren) - published 6 February 2023 Ville Maisi and Martin Bech have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Photo: Kennet Ruona/Till Dreier Ville Maisi and Martin Bech have been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants. Over a five-year period, the two researchers will conduct projects focusing on

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-consolidator-grants-detection-microwave-photons-and-x-ray-microscopy - 2025-03-25

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 31 March 2023 The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier and her companions in the pioneering field of “attophysics”, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz. Photo: Kennet Ruona For her pioneering work in attosecond physics, Anne L’Huillier is one of the

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-new-frontiers-knowledge-awardee - 2025-03-25

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 August 2023 Researchers at Lund University, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Hannover Medical School and the biopharma company Amniotics will investigate how natural killer cells can be tailored for the treatment of AML, glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. Photo: iStock. As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer - 2025-03-25

By annika [dot] persson [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Persson) - published 7 July 2023 The conference took place in the house of The Academic Society in Lund, AF-borgen. CCT, Consumer Culture Theory, annually arrange an international conference on consumer culture. This year it was organized on 27-30 June by the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. The conference was attende

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/fashion-textile-care-cryptocurrency-and-seaweed-cct-conference - 2025-03-25

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 3 June 2024 Bacteriophage attacking a bacteria. Photo: iStock There is a constant war between bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, where both try to outsmart each other. An international study led by Lund University provided an important missing bit to the puzzle of how the bacteria defend themselves against pha

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/war-between-bacteria-and-their-virus - 2025-03-25

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 3 December 2024 Magnesium plays a crucial role in protecting cells against damage from free radicals (antioxidant defense). Illustration: iStock/Just_Super An international team of researchers, led by scientists at Lund University, has uncovered how magnesium enters mitochondria. Magnesium is a vital mineral that plays a key r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/auto-regulating-channels-supply-our-cells-magnesium - 2025-03-25

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 12 February 2025 Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain inj

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-03-25

Published 1 June 2021 Thomas Mathiesen (1933-2021). Photo: University of Oslo. The distinguished socio-legal scholar Thomas Mathiesen died on Saturday, May 29. He was 87 years old. Thomas Mathiesen received his doctorate from the University of Oslo in 1965 with the dissertation The Defenses of the Weak, which examined the Norwegian prison service. Three years later, he founded the Norwegian Associ

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/honorary-doctor-faculty-social-sciences-has-passed-away - 2025-03-25

Published 9 January 2019 ONGOING RESEARCH: Amin Parsa’s research on migration and the use of new technology in tracing mobility focuses on how the use of such technology can potentially reshape our laws. – I want to show how our use of new technology is shaping the way that we do law, says Amin Parsa.– Generally my research is about the relationship between law and technology. Artificial intellige

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/new-technology-shapes-our-understanding-what-legal - 2025-03-25