Published 16 December 2016 Join us on a journey through the centuries, a hunt for the point where the present and the past merge. The history of the University is alive and well among us. After all, it is the same city, the same streets and buildings now as then. The only thing that distinguishes us from our colleagues from the 1600s, from a purely geographical point of view, is a measurable stret

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/jubilee-journey-through-time-and-space - 2025-04-01

Published 17 February 2017 Is the world becoming a better place? This question will be asked by researchers when the first science week of the 350th anniversary celebration takes place in March. Debatt i Lund panellists will start off the week by approaching the question from different angles, followed by five days of discussions and lectures on the standard of living, human rights, war, terrorism

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/world-becoming-better-place-checkpoint-sweden - 2025-04-01

Published 17 February 2017 Research communication officer Evelina Lindén at the School of Economics and Management encouraged journalists to use their moral compass and be careful to give credit where it is due when interviewing researchers – in reference to a case in which SVT had assumed credit for a documentary. Here she points out what researchers themselves can do to avoid the culture clash b

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-deal-journalists - 2025-04-01

Published 17 February 2017 Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una Tellhed and Daiva Daukantaité are colleagues at the D

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2025-04-01

Published 17 February 2017 USV is the umbrella term for the University’s specialised centres which are gradually moving into the faculties. But the process is not painless – the specialised centres are keen to safeguard their identities and their low overhead costs. The faculties and departments, on the other hand, do not want to take on financially insecure ventures. Leif Stenberg is the director

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/usv-shrinking-centres-are-moving-faculties - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 15 September 2023 Photo: Panorama Images from Getty Images Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University has launched its ATMP Pipeline Report, which maps the pipeline of cell and gene therapies being developed at the center. Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are revolutionary medicines based on cells, tissues, or

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-releases-atmp-pipeline-report - 2025-04-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 9 October 2023 Using a data-driven, bioinformatics approach, Lund University researchers have made it possible to take a holistic approach to how our blood group genes are regulated. Photo: iStock/choja Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups, however not much is understood a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-bioinfomatics-pipeline-solves-50-year-old-blood-group-puzzle - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 11 October 2023 An illustration depicting the different steps that need to be taken to bring a novel stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, from the lab to the clinic. Illustration by Katrine Bech Lauritzen. A recent publication by researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center, gives a closer look

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/closer-look-making-novel-stem-cell-therapy-parkinsons-disease - 2025-04-01

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 17 October 2023 Filipe Pereira (R) coordinates the research project which is allocated 33 million from the EIC. Together with Fábio Fiúza Rosa (L), he is also one of the founders of the company Asgard Therapeutics, a partner in the EIC project. Photo: Asgard Therapeutics An international research project led from Lund

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/enemy-friend-33-million-reprogramming-cancer-cells - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 27 October 2023 Researchers at Lund University have developed an new strategy against leukemia that targets the energy production within cancer cells. Photo: Science Photo Library/Canva.com Cancer cells are the ultimate sugar addicts, gobbling up glucose to fuel their growth and spread. What if we could starve them of

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/powering-down-cancer-cells-new-way-beat-leukemia - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 31 October 2023 The innovation environment for customised stem cell treatments is led by researchers at the Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University, and is now celebrating its second anniversary. Photo: Science Photo Library at Canva.com IndiCell, short for Individualized Cell Therapy, is a national initiative in Swed

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/innovation-environment-customised-stem-cell-treatments-turns-two - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 3 November 2023 Researchers at Lund University have discovered that a specific group of genetic elements in our DNA influence the development of the human brain, their study was published in Science Advances. Photo: Phonlami Photos at Canva.com The human brain is an incredibly intricate organ that regulates everything

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-mobile-dna-shapes-human-brain - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 14 November 2023 Mattias Magnusson joined the Research School in Stem Cell Biology as its Executive Coordinator earlier in 2023. Photo by: Alexis Luis Lund Stem Cell Center's Research School in Stem Cell Biology has a new Executive Coordinator, Mattias Magnusson. As a researcher with a passion for education and collabo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/meet-new-executive-coordinator-lund-stem-cell-centers-research-school-stem-cell-biology - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 28 November 2023 Each year, the Lund Stem Cell Center recognizes notable scientific achievements made by our members in the fields of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine through our Article of the Year Award. With each passing year, we witness remarkable strides in scientific innovation, and today, we are delig

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-announces-articles-year-2022-and-2023 - 2025-04-01

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 23 November 2023 Participating in the Forskar Grand Prix was proof that she has succeeded in conveying how exciting her research is, and the enthusiasm she feels for the profession, says Sofie Mohlin. With a presentation focusing on how research using chicken embryos can help cure an unusual form of childhood cancer, researche

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/research-chickens-and-childhood-cancer-takes-center-stage-forskar-grand-prix - 2025-04-01

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl and Johan Joelsson) - published 24 November 2023 Joan Yuan received the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant 2023 for the project: Unraveling the Role of Early Life B Cells in Shaping the Adult Immune System. Joan Yuan, associate professor of immunology at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, and researcher at Lund Stem Cell Center, is

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/erc-grant-advances-study-b-cells-crucial-role-our-immune-system - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 2 January 2024 Christopher Douse explores the repetitive portion of the human genome, so-called ‘genomic dark matter’, and its role in human brain development and degeneration. Photo: Alexis Bento Luis. Christopher Douse, a new group leader at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded the Ben Barres

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/exploring-genomic-dark-matter-christopher-douse-awarded-12m-grant-chan-zuckerberg-initiative - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 6 February 2024 At the end of 2023, researchers at Lund Stem Cell Center received funding amounting to SEK 77.5 million from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Cancer Society, and the Swedish Childhood Cancer Fund. Photo credit: Kenneth Ruona World Cancer Day, celebrated on 04 February, is a time to reflect on t

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/leukemia-lung-cancer-funding-regenerative-medicine-advances-cancer-research - 2025-04-01

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 4 March 2024 Lund University researchers find that individual blood stem cells (depicted as snowflakes in this image) express stress-related transcripts when subjected to experimental procedures involving cell incubation at elevated temperatures. Image // Marcin Minor Changes occur in all cells of the human body as we

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/intrinsic-aging-or-lab-induced-stress-understanding-genetic-changes-blood-stem-cells - 2025-04-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 March 2024 In a study led by Lund University, researchers can show for the first time that traumatic brain injuries activate dormant endogenous retroviruses that have been inserted into human DNA over the course of millions of years. The activation of these viruses may be the driving force behind the inflammation that worse

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/severe-brain-trauma-activates-dormant-endogenous-retroviruses-brain - 2025-04-01