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Published 5 February 2016 Within 100 years, approximately half of the 6,000 languages in the world will become extinct. A window to the past is currently being opened in Lund, where you can listen to languages that are no longer spoken thanks to a special resource for digital language documentation. Niclas Burenhult. Every two weeks, a language is lost. Through an infrastructure project funded by
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/language-collectors - 2025-04-21
Published 16 September 2016 Why do humans and other mammals have two kidneys, but only one heart and one brain? “Because the kidneys are so important, of course!” says Diana Karpman – partly joking and partly serious. As a consultant and professor in nephrology, she really does think these organs are among the most essential in the body. Diana Karpmans work has been very rewarding. In a healthy in
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/searching-causes-kidney-failure - 2025-04-21
Published 18 November 2016 After your PhD, the clock starts ticking fast. For a young researcher there are no guarantees that you will have a long career in research. Still, you have to give it your all, often while combining it with having small children. There is no time for you to draw up a plan B. In this equation, Pontus Nordenfelt from Future Faculty calls for more honesty and clearer career
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-people-should-be-sharing-grants - 2025-04-21
Published 19 April 2018 Consumers are demanding cheaper clothing while more are becoming aware and reassessing their consumption: second hand rather than “fast fashion”. The sustainability challenges of clothing companies often have to do with long supply chains – and the consumers’ demands. But together, consumers, businesses and politicians can change the fashion industry, according to Johan Jan
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-trends-fashion-industry-fast-and-cheap-sustainable - 2025-04-21
Published 25 September 2018 Data gathering for European climate research goes on around the clock at the University’s Hyltemossa research station. The tallest of its two masts reaches as high as 150 metres straight up into the sky. Every other week, the station’s staff must climb to the top of the mast to clean two sensors. Recently, intensive work has been conducted on the lower mast to install e
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/top-research-gathers-high-level-climate-data - 2025-04-21
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 13 December 2018 Marlene Malmström. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Although patient influence in healthcare has gradually started to increase, the role of the patient's next of kin is still very limited. Despite the fact that the disease affects the whole family, public healthcare often does not utilise the patient's relatives
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/role-relatives-needs-be-highlighted-cancer-care - 2025-04-21
By helena [dot] lind [at] sam [dot] lu [dot] se (Helena Lind) - published 18 December 2023 New faculty management ready to take over! From the left: Åsa Lundqvist, Charlotte Simonsson, Björn Badersten and Agnes Andersson. On 1 January, the faculty's new deans will take office. Who are they and what is their role? Agnes Andersson, DeanWhich of the faculty management’s areas will you be responsible
https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/meet-our-new-faculty-management - 2025-04-21
Published 21 September 2021 One of the two masts at the research station reaches 150 metres straight up in the air from the dense forest. A staff member climbs the mast every other week. Photo: Adam Kristensson. 20 years of measurements are only the beginning. Long-term measurements over several decades are crucial to enable predictions of how airborne particles affect the future climate, accordin
https://www.science.lu.se/article/long-term-measurements-show-how-climate-changing - 2025-04-21
Published 22 April 2022 LUCSUS researchers Barbara Schröter and Torsten Krause are studying how we can achieve more sustainable value chains for e.g. gold and cattle in Colombia. The Caquetá River in Putumayo, Colombia. Photo: Barbara Schröter The increasing demand of minerals, oil, and agricultural goods have severe negative social and environmental impacts. The extraction of resources leads to l
By Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 8 November 2022 Read about our research, engagement and researchers at COP27, the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, hosted by Egypt in Sharm El Sheikh. It is held between 6-18 November. Reports launched at COP27 The land Gap report Countries’ climate pledges are dangerously over reliant on ineq
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/lucsus-engagement-during-cop27 - 2025-04-21
Published 18 April 2019 LUMES alumni Sophia Speckhahn and Annabel Schickner from batch 19 visited LUMES to share their stories about life after LUMES, from graduation to getting their first jobs. Today they are both working with sustainability within different sectors in Germany. Find out what they think are the most important skills they gained from the LUMEs programme and what career advice they
https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/meet-lumes-alumni-sophia-speckhahn-and-annabel-schickner-batch-19 - 2025-04-21
By carys [dot] egan-wyer [at] fek [dot] lu [dot] se (Carys Egan-Wyer) - published 18 February 2022 Delivery truck Perhaps not, argues Yulia Vakulenko. At least not when it comes to the delivery service needs and preferences of rural versus urban e-consumers in the age of consumer-centric supply chain management. The new age of consumer-centric supply chain management highlights the benefits of pla
https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/does-one-service-fit-all - 2025-04-21
Published 4 May 2023 After a long break due to the pandemic the WCMM Research Day has been organized in its full form on-site again. It brought WCMM researchers, communicators, economist, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members, the director Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, and co-directors Jonas Larsson and Lars Dahlin, the two newly recruited DDLS fellows and everyone else invited together to em
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/interview-research-day-organization-committee - 2025-04-21
Published 2 June 2020 nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf File nano_tsunami.com_-_nano_medicine_in_depth.pdf High-powered living DNA cannonWe all know that a viral infection can be developed extremely quickly, but in factit's even more dramatic than that - the process is literally explosive.The pressure inside a virus is 40 atmospheres, and it is just waiting for anopportunity to blow up
https://www.virus-biophysics.lu.se/article/high-powered-living-dna-cannon - 2025-04-21
By paulina [dot] nordling [at] thm [dot] lu [dot] se (Paulina Nordling) - published 23 February 2024 The participants in the MA Performing Arts as Critical Practice have started their independent Work in the Field projects this Spring. The eight participants have partnered up with performing arts venues and will conduct artistic investigations, involving different communities and organizations in
https://www.thm.lu.se/en/article/work-field-students-ma-performing-arts-critical-practice - 2025-04-21
By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 31 March 2022 The islets of Langerhans are clusters of cells that are spread out over the pancreas. Lena Eliasson and Jones Ofori separate the islets of Langerhans from the pancreas to study them in the lab. Photo: Petra Olsson Researchers at Lund University have discovered increased levels of a microRNA in type 2 diabetes
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-drug-candidate-increases-insulin-secretion-type-2-diabetes - 2025-04-21
By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 31 May 2022 Anita Wisén. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. In order to be able to prescribe the appropriate dose of physical activity to patients, healthcare professionals need to consider a range of individual factors. There is a need to facilitate the assessment of aerobic capacity i. e. maximal oxygen uptake capacity (VO2max),
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/my-aerobic-capacity-rpc - 2025-04-21
