By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 10 September 2024 Foto: iStock/kali9 There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that received oxygen therapy at home for 24 hours a day, and a group that received the same therapy for 15 hours a d

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/no-benefits-24-hour-compared-15-hour-oxygen-therapy - 2025-01-11

By alexis_bento [dot] luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis Bento) - published 13 September 2024 Researchers are developing a new cancer immunotherapy that reprograms cancer cells into dendritic cells using an adenoviral vector. The image shows how this new approach, tested In preclinical studies, works. Image credit: Joana Carvalho. Researchers at Lund University are developing a new type

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-reprogram-tumor-cells-cancer-fighting-immune-cells-living-beings - 2025-01-11

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 7 October 2024 PhD student Luís Oliveira drew resounding applause for his presentation on how he reprograms cancer cells. Photo: Bodil Malmström. By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/he-won-regional-heat-researcher-grand-prix-now-heading-national-contest-stockholm - 2025-01-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 14 October 2024 Aleksander Giwercman and Amelie Stenqvist (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) For the first time, researchers have linked specific frequent defects in sperm to risk of pregnancy complications and negative impacts on the health of the baby. The study from Lund University in Sweden shows that high proportion of fathe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/defective-sperm-doubles-risk-preeclampsia - 2025-01-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 October 2024 Men produce hundreds of millions of sperm every day, which means that the male germ cells are constantly undergoing cell division, increasing the risk of harmful mutations.Photo: iStock/Shidlovski It has previously been difficult to identify DNA mutations in sperm, as these changes are rare, and most se

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-method-enables-identification-mutations-sperm - 2025-01-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 23 October 2024 Kári Stefánsson, Professor at the University of Iceland and CEO of deCODE genetics, has been awarded the Eric K. Fernström foundation Grand Nordic Prize, Lund University. Photo: JG/deCODE genetics A career in science was not on the map for Kári Stefánsson, who aspired to become a writer. But life took another r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/success-makes-it-difficult-quit - 2025-01-11

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 24 October 2024 Obesity is a common cause of diabetes, heart disease and early death, but risk differs greatly from one person to the next. Photo: iStock/Suriyawut Suriya Obesity is a common cause of diabetes, heart disease and early death, but risk differs greatly from one person to the next. In work led by researchers

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-precision-medicine-approach-helps-detect-subgroups-people-obesity-high-risk-diabetes-and-heart - 2025-01-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 1 November 2024 Joao Duarte's research group is investigating how the brain is affected by diabetes. Photograph: Petra Olsson Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. In his research, he is also investigating how diet changes can improve brain function in connection wit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/praised-research-diabetes-and-dementia - 2025-01-11

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 4 November 2024 Research nurse Jessica Melin takes a blood sample from a study participant. In the film Åke Lernmark, principal investigator of the TEDDY study in Sweden, explains the most important results of the TEDDY-study. In 2025, children within the TEDDY study will submit their final samples at research clinics in S

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-type-1-diabetes-large-scale-teddy-study-will-soon-be-completed - 2025-01-11

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 6 November 2024 “Our goal is to make advances in stem cell therapy by modifying and adapting cells to the patient’s needs", explains Malin Parmar. Photo: Tove Smeds. Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-synergy-grant-awarded-development-custom-made-stem-cell-therapies - 2025-01-11

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 6 November 2024 Foam cells visualised using confocal microscopy in tissue from a glioblastoma patient: the nucleus (blue), a marker for macrophages that are recruited from the bone marrow (green) and lipid droplets that gave the foam cell its name. Credit: Governa et al A research team at Lund University in Sweden has

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/foam-cells-brain-tumours - 2025-01-11

Published 2 April 2015 On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund Unive

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/nordicesm-meeting - 2025-01-11

Published 18 June 2015 A recently published report is a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book. Several MERGE researchers has contributed to this work. The Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II), a recently published report, serves as a revision and expansion of the 2008 edition of the BACC book.“The current publication for the Baltic Sea area i

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-report-consolidates-knowledge-climate-change-baltic-sea-region - 2025-01-11

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

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-summer-meeting-2015 - 2025-01-11

Published 23 June 2015 A new working group, lead by MERGE board member Marie-José Gaillard, will work with global reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change over the last 6000 years for climate models. PAGES (Past Global Changes) supports research aimed at understanding the Earth’s past environment in order to make predictions for the future.The new PAGES working group "LandCover6k" has th

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-pages-working-group-will-produce-global-recontructions-anthropogenic-land-cover-change - 2025-01-11

Publicerad 1 februari 2021 Den nya startsidan på medicin.lu.se Från och med den 2 februari 2021 möts du av ett nytt utseende på webbsidorna när du besöker denna webbplats, medicin.lu.se Webbplatsens innehåll presenteras nu enligt det nya utseende som Lunds universitet gemensamt tagit fram. Förutom att det ser annorlunda ut har anpassningen till visning i mobilen förbättrats. Även ett par tidigare

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-utseende-pa-webbplatsen - 2025-01-11

Av olle [dot] dahlback [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Olle Dahlbäck) - publicerad 2 februari 2021 Bildkälla: Mostphotos Forskare vid Lunds universitet tror sig ha identifierat en genvariant som kan orsaka småkärlssjukdom i hjärnan och stroke. – De personer vi undersökt är från samma släkt och flera av dem har insjuknat med småkärlssjukdom i hjärnan och stroke. Efter vävnadsundersökning och genetiska

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/genvariant-tros-orsaka-stroke - 2025-01-11

Av katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - publicerad 2 februari 2021 Bildkälla: Mostphotos Risken för svår form av näthinnesjukdomen ROP, som kan ge blindhet hos extremt tidigt födda barn, halverades när barnen gavs ett nytt kombinationstillskott av olika fettsyror. Det framgår av en svensk studie ledd som letts från Göteborgs universitet, och i vilken David Ley och Ingrid

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/halverad-risk-svar-nathinnesjukdom-hos-extremt-tidigt-fodda - 2025-01-11

Av tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - publicerad 8 februari 2021 Film "Ljus över enzymet som påverkar hur cancerceller rör sig". Film: Ingemar Hultquist. Det är en kall, grå novemberdag när vi träffar forskarna från Lunds universitet vid MAX IV, en forskningsanläggning med världens ljusstarkaste och mest fokuserade röntgenstrålar. Hit kommer forskare från hela världen för a

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/forskarna-som-ser-i-cellens-allra-minsta-vrar - 2025-01-11

Av Sara [dot] Liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 9 februari 2021 Andreas Rantala. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter Att tvingas bli inlagd på akutmottagningen och vänta på att få komma till en vårdavdelning är som att befinna sig i limbo, i ett ingenmansland, visar en ny studie från Lunds universitet. – Många vittnar om att de känner sig ensamma, utsatta och övergivna, säger Andre

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ovisshet-och-utsatthet-praglar-patientens-upplevelse-pa-akuten - 2025-01-11