Published 31 January 2024 Nature Medicine asked leading researchers which clinical trials in the coming year that are likely to have an outsized impact on medicine. One of the 11 listed trials were the trial "Stem cells for Parkinson’s disease" done at Region Skåne in Lund. Both, WCMM Fellow Agnete Kirkeby and WCMM researcher Gesine Paul Visse, are part of the responsible team. The STEM-PD trial w

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Published 1 October 2024 As a significant advancement for preclinical research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg’s Research Foundation has awarded a grant of 3.9 million SEK to upgrade the Preclinical Magnetic Resonance (MR) platform’s imaging system. The investment will enhance the capabilities of the platform, which plays a crucial role in supporting cuttin

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By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 9 March 2021 A long-tailed tit. Photo: Wikimedia Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die youn

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By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 24 May 2022 Olivier Van Aken and Essam Darwish. Photo: Johan Joelsson. A 30-year-old genetic mystery has been solved. It has previously been established that touch can trigger stress reactions in plants. However, the molecular models for explaining this process have been quite spartan so far. Now researchers at Lun

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/what-happens-when-plants-have-stress-reactions-touch - 2025-04-21

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 10 February 2023 Many bird species in the tropics catch and eat damselflies and dragonflies. Here is a Rufous-tailed Jacamar that has caught a large dragonfly in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Photo: Erik Svensson. The size of dragonflies and damselflies varies around the globe. These insects are generally larger in

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By nina [dot] hansson [at] kanslik [dot] lu [dot] se (Nina Hansson) - published 15 November 2020 Maj Hasager Maj Hasager is herself educated at Malmö Art Academy and has for the past nine years been teaching at the Master's Program. From January 1, she will take on the role as Rector. What are your feelings about your new assignment? -I feel great joy, recognition and trust being elected as Rector

https://www.arts.lu.se/article/maj-hasager-elected-new-rector-malmo-art-academy - 2025-04-21

By annika [dot] permevik [at] ses [dot] lu [dot] se (Annika Permevik) - published 14 April 2025 The examining committee toasts Réka's approved thesis. On 11 April, Réka Tölg defended her doctoral thesis ‘The (im)possibilities of circular consumption: Producing and performing circular clothing consumption in retail and household settings’. The thesis examines how circular consumption actually happe

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Published 1 June 2017 Yesterday afternoon some 60 people gathered in the conference room at Palaestra in Lund to participate in the seminar ”Universities' role in sustainable change work” hosted by LUCE, Child Rights Institute at Lund University (CRi@LU) and partners. The event marked the start of a new online global platform aiming to strengthen international collaboration and research focusing o

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/change-agents-childrens-rights-told-their-stories - 2025-04-21

Published 24 January 2019 Researcher Margareta Johansson, Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, har been part of the global permafrost monotoring research. A pioneering permafrost study has just been released in the online journal Nature Communications, showing that in all permafrost regions, soil temperatures rose by an average of 0,3 degrees Celsius between 2007 and 2016. Margareta J

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Published 14 September 2020 ClimBEco summermeeting in Lund. Photo: Ylva van Meeningen ClimBEco’s annual summer meeting was held this August over two consecutive days, with both online and in-person meetings in Lund, Malmö and Gothenburg. The summer meeting is one of the highlights of our graduate school, where current PhD students can meet, network and learn more about an interdisciplinary topic.

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/summary-climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-04-21

Published 23 June 2015 On 15-16 June 2015 MERGE's annual spring/summer meeting was held at Örenäs Castle in Glumslöv. MERGE researchers and PhD students got together for two days of discussions, scientific presentations and beautiful walks around the castle area. You can find the presentations from the meeting here. Markku Rummukainen, coordinator of MERGE, started the meeting with a background on

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