Our health in later life is shaped not only by the way we live, what our childhood was like or our time in our mothers’ wombs. Even our parents’ health and lifestyle at the time of our conception may affect our health. Peter M Nilsson, professor of clinical cardiovascular research at Lund University, is calling for a major investment in health and lifestyle advice for adolescents and those plannin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/live-healthily-sake-your-future-children - 2025-09-11

Parkinson’s disease, a condition whose complications worsen as the years go by, can mean that getting older becomes particularly challenging. How can life be made easier for these individuals, so that they can continue to be active and participate in society? This is the aim of a multi-year study that examines the interplay between health and home among people ageing with Parkinson’s disease. Sinc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/living-parkinsons-challenge-everyday-life - 2025-09-11

Even though childhood cancer is rare, it affects around 350 children and adolescents under the age of 18 each year in Sweden. That is almost one child every day. Due to improved treatment, 80 per cent of these children survive their cancer. Why do children develop cancer? That mystery has yet to be solved. Children suffer from other types of cancer than adults and the determining factor is the gen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-survival-rate-after-childhood-cancer-what-cost - 2025-09-11

Lao Saal wants to understand the special aberrations that occur in our genetic material, that causes and promotes different types of cancer. Lao Saal has a mission; to make it possible to – just by testing a blood sample – reveal, not only if you have cancer, but also which therapies may be most effective, and how well is the cancer actually responding to treatment. His idea is to trace the geneti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/service-cancer-patients - 2025-09-11

In the major population survey, Malmö Offspring Study, researchers are trying to discover how our intestinal flora is affected by diet and the consequences this has on health. “We have about one and a half kilos of bacteria in our intestines”, says Louise Brunkwall – doctoral student in the research group Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease – Genetic Epidemiology. The Malmö Offspring Study is base

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bacteria-important-gut-feeling - 2025-09-11

Birgitta Svenningsson and Paul Miller with their collegues at MERGE combine experimental data from local-level studies with advanced ESMs, thereby improving the ability to predict the climate for larger areas in the next 100 years. The climate issue is one of the biggest global societal challenges of our time. Research on where the climate is heading is an important part of that work, both to moni

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/climate-models-point-way-towards-future - 2025-09-11

The robot at the hospital somewhere in Sweden is connected and ready to operate. The surgeon, who is in another country, controls the advanced surgery. This is the future: wireless surgery via the internet. But will we be able to trust the speed and security of this wireless connection through the cloud?It should work, with the help of the faster 5G technology and by bringing the cloud closer to t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fast-and-secure-computer-power-when-needed - 2025-09-11

We were all small, newborn infants once. But some of us were perhaps too small as newborns? A child that is born “small for gestational age” means that they have not grown according to their normal curve during the foetal period. By studying the group of small newborns in epidemiological, or register, studies, researchers follow what happens to these infants later in life. This knowledge is of gre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/even-sprat-can-thrive-being-born-small-gestational-age - 2025-09-11

Refugee camp in the Beqaa, with Mashaal Hamoud and Doha Adi (Sawa) and Helen Avery, MECW. When war is over it is crucial to make the right infrastructure decisions to avoid future conflicts and social tensions. At MECW the research project “Infrastructure choices in post-conflict situations: Opportunities for sustainability and resilience?” looks into the rebuilding process in the Middle East and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/learning-past-looking-towards-future-mending-societies-after-fighting-stops - 2025-09-11

The CT-scanned feather details (left) need to be converted to a complete 3D model of the feather (right) in order to develop numerical tools to realise a geometric model of the feather. This model in turn will be the basis for the development of a highly Birds are masters of flight and can even outperform aircraft. Bar-tailed godwits, for example, can fly from Alaska to New Zealand – 11 600 km – i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/making-aircraft-wing-feather - 2025-09-11

Photo: Shutterstock Variations and changes in the genetic code in our cells are of great significance for many of the most widespread diseases. In recent years, researchers have made important progress in finding new ways to correct the genes that are causing problems. They have developed a technique that enables changes to the genetic sequence in living cells.  “It is possible to cut out the bad

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-gene-technique-inspired-bacterias-immune-defence - 2025-09-11

Faster, more efficient, thinner, more energy-saving! These are some of the watchwords used in the development of better mobiles, solar cells and LED lighting. The common denominator for improving transistors in electronics or lighting diodes are ultra-small semi-conductors known as nanowires. Using a new “supermicroscope”, Reine Wallenberg, professor of solid state physics, is studying how nanowir

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-technology-shows-how-nanowires-are-born - 2025-09-11

Mike Olsson is developing the right tools for materials that are difficult to process, such as: pure copper, tungsten, niobium, tantalum and molybdenum. Photo: Kennet Ruona If you use your tools correctly, they last longer and you will not have to throw them out and buy new ones. Many of us agree with this sustainable and profitable approach. The same applies to manufacturing companies that want t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/optimisation-tools - 2025-09-11

The cells that produce insulin and glucagon are difficult to access, as they are located inside the fragile pancreas. Researchers looking to understand how they function and what underpins the development of diabetes are therefore often advised to conduct their experiments on animals. The Human Tissue Lab, on the other hand, provides researchers with access to cells from deceased human donors; thi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gold-diabetes-researchers - 2025-09-11

Bo Hansson was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes when he was 64. His elevated blood sugar was discovered during a routine visit to the Occupational Health Service. A mapping conducted at Lund University shows that 40 per cent of all adults that has the disease got it at an average age of 67. Bo Hansson received his diagnosis the year before he retired during a routine visit to the Occupational Health

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/risk-type-2-diabetes-increases-age - 2025-09-11

MERGE research team has studied drill cores up to three kilometres deep taken from the Greenland ice sheet. Photo: NEEM gallery A three-kilometre-long cylinder of ice sheds light on what the climate was like one hundred thousand years ago. The ice contains traces of periods of higher or lower temperatures on Earth, but also of whether there were violent volcanic eruptions and high solar activity.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tracing-climate-back-100-000-years-greenland - 2025-09-11

I-Ju Chen, Yang Chen and Xulu Zeng are all on the track to find better ways of harvesting sunlight using solar cells made of nanowires. Photo: Kennet Ruona Increased use of solar cells in the future requires higher efficiency and lower production costs. Innovative research from the interdisciplinary centre NanoLund wants to optimize the nanowires so that sunlight can be harvested more efficiently.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sunhunters-knowledge-collect-light - 2025-09-11

Image credit: Greasy Faced Dial by Shane Gorski, via Flickr (licenced under a CC BY-ND 2.0 licence) Cycling becomes a lot harder if you don’t oil the bicycle chain! Similarly, you can’t cut metal, turn metal on a lathe or press sheet metal without lubricant. Previously in engineering works there was a flow of lubricant that is hazardous for health and the environment, but now the technology exists

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-efficient-lubricants-using-sawdust - 2025-09-11

How did we end up here? What do we do to get out of it? In climate research, it is important to understand how the world works if we are to change our behaviour and prevent future catastrophes. Researchers use mathematical formulas to try and visualise reality, in order to find out what changes we need to make. “We build models in an attempt to represent nature’s behaviour using mathematical equat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mathematic-visualize-climate-changes - 2025-09-11

Small sensors do a big job. Increasing numbers of things can now be controlled and measured, detected and regulated via small sensors on machines, in nature or in and on our bodies. These sensors gather and transmit large amounts of information via wireless communication, while requiring very little electrical power. To reduce electricity consumption, researchers must work with each tiny electroni

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tiny-savings-big-results-energy-efficient-electronics - 2025-09-11