Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 5 november 2024 CASE-forskaren och läraren Marianne Kylberg ska utveckla rehabiliteringsutbildningarna framöver. Foto: Lill Eriksson Marianne Kylberg, lärare och forskare ansluten till CASE, har utsetts till ordförande i Programnämnden för rehabiliteringsutbildningar, PNR. Uppdraget är på tre år och startar den 1 januar

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/hon-blir-ny-bas-rehabiliteringsutbildningar - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 7 november 2024 Sonja Aits berättade om hur AI används i forskningsarbetet. Foto: Lill Eriksson AI är på mångas läppar och naturligtvis också i forskarvärlden. Men det gäller att vara försiktig och att dubbelkolla resultaten. AI var ett av huvudämnena idag på årets träff för CASE:s nätverkande forskare. Expert på maskin

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/aits-om-ai-en-revolution-forskare - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 19 november 2024 William Son Galanza, Björn Slaug och Oskar Jonsson från forskargrupperna Aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande och Tillämpad gerontologi medverkade på GSA2024. Några av CASE:s forskare deltog i förra veckans gerontologikongress, GSA2024 i Seattle, USA.   The Gerontological Society of America uppges vara den äld

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/juniora-och-seniora-forskare-mots-i-usa - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 21 november 2024 "Genom att skapa trygga och engagerande miljöer och stödja hälsa och lärande, främjas ett mer aktivt åldrande", säger Frida Nordeström. Foto: Lill Eriksson Ett hem som äldre upplever som meningsfullt bidrar till deras välbefinnande. I stället för antal rum och höjd på trösklar, är det känslomässiga aspe

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskning-lyfter-vikten-av-satsningar-pa-55-plussare - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 5 december 2024 Enrico Ronchi. Foto: Kumri Altunkaynak CASE-anslutne forskaren Enrico Ronchi har tilldelats det prestigefyllda anslaget ERC Consolidator Grant. Hur känns det?– Det är en dröm som blivit verklighet, med tanke på hur stor konkurrens det är och hur prestigefyllt bidraget är. ERC Egressibility-projektet komb

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/han-far-europeiska-forskningsradets-pris-framstaende-forskare - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 12 december 2024 Äldre människor som aldrig gått en digital kurs tidigare, kan ändå klara av en sådan, upptäckte forskaren Kiran Maini Gerhardsson. Foto: Sweet Life/Unsplash Idag hölls ännu ett forskarseminarium inom åldrande och hälsa, denna gång lett av gästforskaren Wenqian Xu, som har undersökt barnlöshet i Kina, oc

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/om-aldres-barnloshet-och-ljus-i-hemmet - 2025-01-07

Av lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - publicerad 17 december 2024 Professor Vikki McCall från Skottland besökte Lund för att berätta om metodiken "serious games". Nyligen besökte Vikki McCall, professor i socialpolitik vid Stirlinguniversitetet i Skottland, forskargruppen Tillämpad Gerontologi i Lund. Fokus var i första hand metoden "serious games". Professor McCall h

https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/serious-games-med-aldre-vuxna-ger-kraftfull-effekt - 2025-01-07

Published 22 December 2016 Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is in Rovaniemi, Finland. In fact, the same calculation us

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2025-01-07

Published 12 January 2017 Johan Jakobsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a sign

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2025-01-07

Published 12 January 2017 The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers ,niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-01-07

Published 13 January 2017 Shatter cone, Siljan (Photo: Sanna Alwmark) A celestial body with a diameter of five kilometres crashed into the Earth’s surface, causing the formation of the so-called Siljan Ring in Dalarna, Sweden. The original impact crater was approximately 60 kilometres in diameter and the bedrock was covered by a layer of sediments 2.5 km thick when the projectile struck, according

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2025-01-07

Published 16 January 2017 Nils Holmberg (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Children aged 9 are several times more sensitive to disruptive advertising than adults. This is shown by studies conducted at Lund University in Sweden, in which children’s eye movements were measured. Together with the Lund University Humanities Lab, media and communications researcher Nils Holmberg has developed a combination of me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-are-disproportionately-affected-online-advertising - 2025-01-07

Published 17 January 2017 Laurent Roybon The Stem Cell Laboratory for CNS Disease Modeling (CSC Laboratory) in Lund, has created one of the largest iPSC biobanks from patients diagnosed with familial and idiopathic PD, and associated synucleionopathies. iPSCs are obtained by reprogramming patient’s somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells. This unique technique, which allows generating embryonic

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-archive-ips-cells-parkinsons-patients - 2025-01-07

Published 17 January 2017 Emma Sparr (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that makes it possible to see how individual molecules from solvents in skin creams, medicated ointments and cleaning products affect and interact with the skin’s own molecules. In the study, the researchers have examined how molecules added to the skin through various liq

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-solvents-affect-skin - 2025-01-07

Published 19 January 2017 Jesper Fritz Previous research has shown that there may be a connection between daily physical education and improved study performance. A new extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has shown the same connection, but for boys in particular. The project involved several primary school classes in which the pupils participated in physical education on a daily basis,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/boys-more-physical-education-school-had-better-grades - 2025-01-07

Published 19 January 2017 Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swedish universities, 26,223 chose Lund University programm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2025-01-07

Published 23 January 2017 Zaal Kokaia Today, a stroke usually leads to permanent disability – but in the future, the stroke-injured brain could be reparable by replacing dead cells with new, healthy neurons, using transplantation. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken a step in that direction by showing that some neurons transplanted into the brains of stroke-injured rats were incorp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/transplanted-neurons-incorporated-stroke-injured-rat-brain - 2025-01-07

Published 23 January 2017 The meristem. The photo was taken using confocal microscopy. (Photo: Arun Sampathkumar and Yassin Refahi) Researchers have managed to show how the cells in a plant, a multicellular organism, determine their size and regulate their growth over time. The findings overturn previous theories in the field and are potentially significant for the future of agriculture and forest

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-plant-cells-regulate-growth-shown-first-time - 2025-01-07

Published 23 January 2017 Researchers have discovered minerals from 43 meteorites that landed on Earth 470 million years ago. More than half of the mineral grains are from meteorites completely unknown or very rare in today’s meteorite flow. These findings mean that we will probably need to revise our current understanding of the history and development of the solar system. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe di

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-rare-meteorites-challenge-our-understanding-solar-system - 2025-01-07

Published 26 January 2017 Mattias Möller (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) 1 000 new mutations in the blood group genes: that is what physician and former programmer Mattias Möller found in his research study in which he developed new software and investigated blood group genes in 2 504 people. This discovery from Lund University in Sweden was published recently in the journal Blood Advances. Genomes from 2

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-1-000-new-genetic-variants-were-discovered-blood-groups - 2025-01-07