Published 17 November 2020 Artistic representation of how a dying star, a red giant, gradually loses its gas mass to the other star in a binary star system. The chain of events in the image is based on the research of the current study. Illustration: Joris Vos. The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a curre

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Published 19 November 2020 Martin Magnusson and Amra Jujic (Photo: Tove Gilvad) Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-04-25

Published 19 November 2020 One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from passenger air travel. Thus, there is good reason to view air travel in a new light. It is actually an elitist activity, rather than what the aviation industry would like us to believe – that everyone flies. This is claimed by Stefan Gössling at Lund University and Linna

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Published 19 November 2020 Erik Renström (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine. “It feels very exciting and a little solemn to be

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Published 25 November 2020 Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist and Jens Schouenborg (Photo: Tove Smeds) A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Jour

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-04-25

Published 25 November 2020 David Winge How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At first, the line looks like

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-04-25

Published 26 November 2020 Forest in Morzine, France. Photo by Guy Bowden on Unsplash. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/global-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-04-25

Published 30 November 2020 Oskar Hansson and Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that validated biomarkers can reveal an individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Using a model that combines the levels of two specific proteins in the blood of those with mild memory impairment, the researchers are able to predict the risk of developing Alzheimer’s. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/app-predicts-risk-developing-alzheimers - 2025-04-25

Published 2 December 2020 Photo: Dylan Walters/Flickr Is Africa rising? That’s one of many questions covered in LUSEM’s newly launched open global online course (MOOC) – African development, from the past to the present. Taking on an economic history perspective of the continent, the course covers the past centuries – with an emphasis on the past hundred years. With more than two decades worth of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-launched-mooc-africas-development - 2025-04-25

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 9 December 2020 Dolphins use these sounds and echoes to navigate and locate their food, but also for their social contacts. So far, the way dolphins navigate, find food and socialise using sound signals has baffled researchers. Josefin Starkhammar, senior lecturer at the Division for Biomedical Engineering, together

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-algorithm-brings-us-closer-dolphin-communication - 2025-04-25

Published 10 December 2020 Caterina Doglioni and Hanna Isaksson One wants to shed new light on mysterious dark matter. The other wants to understand how tendons are constructed and how they heal after an injury. Researcher in particle physics Caterina Doglioni and professor of biomedical technology Hanna Isaksson are now receiving SEK 40 million from the European Research Council (ERC). Caterina D

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Published 11 December 2020 Mikael Dolsten (Photo: Pfizer) Mikael Dolsten, head of research at Pfizer, who led the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, will take up the appointment of visiting professor of Pharmacology at Lund University in Sweden on 1 January 2021. “During my years as a student and researcher in Lund I had many mentors who inspired me. I want to give something

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Published 11 December 2020 Mikael Dolsten (Photo: Pfizer) Mikael Dolsten was an advisor to President Obama, worked with Joe Biden on Cancer Moonshot, was involved in the R&D for some 30 drugs – and he is now leading the development of Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine as head of research at Pfizer. It is an impressive career to say the least, and it started in Lund, Sweden. The circle wi

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Published 14 December 2020 Iben Lundgaard and Nicholas Bèchet The brain has its own cleaning system that removes harmful substances while we sleep and protects it from diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have now imaged the cleaning system in 3D, indicating that it is substantially more developed than previously thought. High resolution 3D movie of ho

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-cleaning-system-brain-captured-3d-footage - 2025-04-25

Published 14 December 2020 ”Most people assume that South African society is unequal because of colonialism. But we want to know what factors gave rise to this unequal distribution and why it persisted for so long,” says researcher Erik Green. Photo: Gregory Fullard/Unsplash In a unique project, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with universities in South Africa, the Netherlands

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-historians-seeking-roots-south-africas-inequality - 2025-04-25

Published 15 December 2020 Karin Magnusson It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport can all be contributing factors when someone suffers an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now observed that genes also play a decisive role. By analysing data from the Swedish Twin Register along with data from the Swedish National Pat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/genes-play-role-common-knee-injury - 2025-04-25

Published 16 December 2020 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have recorded coughs resolved at high temporal resolution - 8,000 images per second - and high detection sensitivity, using laser light scattering. This enabled them to count the number of droplets as well as measure their speed with high accuracy. The preliminary results show that only 15% of droplets pass through a low-cost surg

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-85-cough-droplets-blocked-surgical-mask-experiment-shows - 2025-04-25

Published 18 December 2020 Mohsin Mohammed, Jens Schoenborg, Johan Agorelius and Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist. In order to study how the brain functions and to develop new technologies for treating neurological diseases, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed tissue-friendly and flexible microelectrodes that are roughly one tenth as thick as a strand of hair. Three of the doctoral

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-row-hat-trick-brain-electrodes - 2025-04-25

Published 26 December 2020 Kristian Soltesz In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London developed a model to assess the effect of different measures used to curb the spread of the coronavirus. However, the model had fundamental shortcomings and cannot be used to draw the published conclusions, claim Swedish researchers from Lund University, and other institutions, in the journal Na

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/model-used-evaluate-lockdowns-was-flawed - 2025-04-25

Published 12 January 2021 Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have now drawn an exciting conclusion regarding massive stars that can be observed in the outskirts of many spiral galaxies. These objects appear to be “runaway” stars that have been ejected to areas where no stars can form at all. Some ten years ago, the research community discovered that ultraviolet ligh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astronomers-find-explanation-mysterious-stars - 2025-04-25