Published 30 August 2019 Photo: Mikael Risedal Researchers from Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the USA have developed a financial mechanism to support the protection of the world’s natural heritage. In a recent study, they developed three different design options for an intergovernmental biodiversity financing mechanism. Asking what would happen if money was given to countries for providing protected

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-if-we-paid-countries-protect-biodiversity - 2025-04-25

Published 3 September 2019 Mikkel Brygdegaard, Nancy Bocken, Per Augustsson and Andreas Ehn Ultrasound that detects rare cells in a drop of blood. Business models for a circular economy. Laser technology that can film at almost the speed of light, and another that can map insects from several kilometres away. Four promising researchers from Lund University have been awarded starting grants from th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-university-researchers-awarded-erc-starting-grants - 2025-04-25

Published 6 September 2019 For three weeks the royal warship Gribshunden (1495) has been excavated on the seabed of the Baltic Sea off the coast of southern Sweden. Among others things, a very early firearm - one of the earliest to be found on a ship anywhere in the world - as well as a beautifully formed drinking tankard, with a crown-like engraving, have been found. Gribshunden is considered the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/spectacular-discoveries-during-excavation-unique-flagship-gribshunden - 2025-04-25

Published 6 September 2019 Kinga Gawlik, researcher at the Dep. of Experimental Medical Science. Photo: Agata Garpenlind A new technology has brought researchers one step closer to a future cure for Congenital Muscular Dystrophy type1A, a devastating muscle disease that affects children. The new findings are based on research by Kinga Gawlik at Lund University, Department of Experimental Medical S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reversing-muscle-dystrophy - 2025-04-25

Published 12 September 2019 Photo: Kennet Ruona Lund University has climbed from #98 to #96 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020, once again securing a place among the top 100 universities in the world. The ranking includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, placing Lund University in the top 0,4% of the universities included.THE uses 13 performance indicators t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-world-top-100-ranking - 2025-04-25

Published 16 September 2019 “It is extremely momentous for me to be awarded the prize and it’s flattering not least because many significant researchers at the faculty have won the prize previously”, says Johan Malmström, this year’s winner of the Fernström Prize This year’s Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers at Lund University is awarded to Professor Joha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lunds-fernstrom-prize-research-interaction-proteins - 2025-04-25

Published 18 September 2019 Illustration: Don Davis An international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has found that a collision in the asteroid belt 470 million years ago created drastic changes to life on Earth. The breakup of a major asteroid filled the entire inner solar system with enormous amounts of dust leading to a unique ice age and, subsequently, to higher levels

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gigantic-asteroid-collision-boosted-biodiversity-earth - 2025-04-25

Published 20 September 2019 Photo: Mostphotos In recently published studies, researchers at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden have produced new prediction models for improved personalised treatment of lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. The latest results that have now been published in Clinical Cancer Research and BMC Cancer show that up to one in every three operations c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fewer-lymph-node-operations-breast-cancer-patients-new-prediction-models - 2025-04-25

Published 23 September 2019 The Fernström Prize winner Søren Brunak started working with bioinformatics and machine learning in the mid-1980s. (Photo: Henrik Sørensen) Professor Søren Brunak from Copenhagen has been awarded the grand Nordic Prize for 2019 by the Eric K. Fernström Foundation. It is one of the largest Scandinavian research prizes in medicine and Søren Brunak receives the award for h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-prize-goes-pioneer-bioinformatics - 2025-04-25

Published 25 September 2019 (Photo: Mostphotos) Emissions of greenhouse gases have a warming effect on the climate, whereas small airborne particles in the atmosphere, aerosols, act as a cooling mechanism. That is the received wisdom in any case. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden can now show that the tiniest aerosols are increasing at the expense of the normal sized and slightl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aerosols-coniferous-forests-no-longer-cool-climate-much - 2025-04-25

Published 26 September 2019 Yvonne Lundberg Giwercman and Yahia Al-Jebari (Photo: Tove Gilvad) In a new national register study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have studied the link between prostate cancer and infertility. The study, published in the British Medical Journal, includes over one million Swedish men. “Men who seek health care for infertility and assisted reproduction were

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-between-assisted-reproduction-and-risk-prostate-cancer - 2025-04-25

Published 1 October 2019 Rapid particles in an explanatory light: When electrons are no longer fixed to the atomic shell and can move freely, their wave form can be changed using laser light The discovery that free electrons can move asymmetrically provides a deeper understanding of one of the basic processes in physics: the photoelectric effect. It was first described by Albert Einstein and expla

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intriguing-discovery-provides-new-insights-photoelectric-effect - 2025-04-25

Published 10 October 2019 177Lutetium-DOTATATE one day after injection (coloured area), overlaid on an x-ray image (grey scale). Lund researchers Anna Sundlöv and Katarina Sjögreen-Gleisner have developed a method to personalise treatment using a newly approved radioactive cancer drug – by taking images of the drug’s dispersion inside the patient. Their article won the best publication of the year

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-lund-receive-prize-publication-year - 2025-04-25

Published 14 October 2019 Photo: Inger Ekström Plastic waste is a growing problem around the world, despite efforts to recycle or reduce plastic use. In order to really transform the recycling process, more attention needs to be paid to the composition of plastic, according to a new research article from Lund University in Sweden. The paper presents strategies on how to improve recyclability throu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-does-future-plastic-look - 2025-04-25

Published 3 March 2020 Oskar Hansson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease is often difficult, as several other conditions can cause similar symptoms. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a blood marker that can accurately diagnose Alzheimer’s in the early stages of the disease. ‟This is a major breakthrough. I believe this blood test can be used clinically i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/blood-test-enables-early-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-04-25

Published 3 March 2020 Kristina Sundquist (Photo: Johan Bävman) Professor Kristina Sundquist's research group at Lund University in Sweden has been awarded USD 2 million by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US. Kristina Sundquist, together with Professor Kenneth Kendler's research group at Virginia Commonwealth University, will

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/large-grant-research-genetics-alcoholism - 2025-04-25

Published 30 March 2020 The Public Health Agency of Sweden recommends that people over the age of 70 should limit their contact with other people as much as possible for a period of time, the length of which is uncertain. How should the elderly and their relatives behave during this crisis? Eldercare researcher Lisa Ekstam of CASE is doing her best to provide advice and answers. According to the P

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/elderly-and-coronavirus-crisis-striving-maintain-everyday-routines-and-balance-activities - 2025-04-25

Published 30 March 2020 Ulrika Wijk, a PhD student at Lund University and an occupational therapist at the Hand Surgery Clinic at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. Photo: Tove Gilvad Losing a body part can have a major impact on both function and feeling, with so-called phantom sensations. However, prosthetics research has made great progress in recent years. Among other advances, artificial sen

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sensory-impressions-artificial-hand-without-surgery - 2025-04-25

Published 30 March 2020 Thérése Jönsson defended her thesis on the subject of nursing science specialising in physiotherapy on March 20. One in four people suffer from osteoarthritis, a chronic joint disease. Although guidelines have long existed regarding how osteoarthritis should be treated, only half of patients undergo the recommended basic treatment. A new thesis from Lund University shows th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-osteoarthritis-school-can-reduce-pain-and-increase-quality-life - 2025-04-25

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 20 April 2020 Sara Wettemarks studies abroad are being pursued from home in Sweden. Photo: Private In mid-December 2019, Sara Wettemark took a flight to Vancouver, Canada, for a semester of Master’s studies in Biomedicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She intended to return home in May but, like so many othe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/studying-abroad-during-coronavirus-epidemic - 2025-04-25