Av lotte [dot] larsen [at] innovation [dot] lu [dot] se (Lotte Larsen) - publicerad 14 mars 2022 Debrickeds team inför 33-listan 2021. Foto Alma Söderholm. Debricked är specialiserade inom säkerhet i öppen källkod och grundat från ett forskningsprojekt vid Lunds universitet 2018. Nu förvärvas de av Micro Focus och blir del av säkerhetsplattformen CyberRes. Debricked har utvecklat en molntjänst som

https://www.innovation.lu.se/artikel/portfoljbolaget-debricked-forvarvas-av-global-mjukvarujatte - 2025-01-09

Publicerad 5 maj 2015 QS Top University ranking för 2015 placerar Lunds universitet som världens tjugonde inom ämnet geografi. QS World University Ranking placerar Lunds universitet som nummer 20 i världen inom geografi. Det innebär att vi klättrar från fjolårets placering, 21.Lunds universitet som helhet ökar också sin placering och hamnar på plats 60.Rankingen baseras på tre kriterier: akademisk

https://www.nateko.lu.se/sv/artikel/lunds-universitet-rankad-som-nr-20-i-varlden-inom-geografi - 2025-01-09

Published 23 April 2019 Charlotte Ling and Tina Rönn (Photos: Stig-Åke Jönsson and Sara Liedholm) In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review arti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes-review - 2025-01-09

Published 25 April 2019 Kajsa Paulsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 gene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-01-09

Published 25 April 2019 Feng Zhang and Malin Parmar (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund.   Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on ge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-01-09

Published 26 April 2019 Geeti Arora Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women. Gestational diabetes is characterized by impa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-01-09

Published 29 April 2019 Henrik Jörntell and Jonas Enander After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-01-09

Published 6 May 2019 Photo: Johan Persson The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Many wildlife species play a key role in dispersing th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-01-09

Published 6 May 2019 The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, explains the significance of the report’s findings. Why i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lead-author-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-01-09

Published 8 May 2019 Photo: Niklas Björling During a brief visit to Sweden, the renowned US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg received a jubilee honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Law in a formal ceremony in Stockholm. As the honoured guest did not have the opportunity to travel to Lund, the ceremony was held at the Svea Court of Appeal in Stockholm. The ceremony was followed by a conv

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ruth-bader-ginsburg-receives-jubilee-honorary-doctorate - 2025-01-09

Published 15 May 2019 Tomas Deierborg and Antonio Boza-Serrano (Photo: Tove Smeds) In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to researchers that the protein galectin-3 is involved in inflammatory diseases in the brain. A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden now shows the de facto key role played by the protein in Alzheimer’s disease. When the researchers shut off the gene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-block-protein-plays-key-role-alzheimers-disease - 2025-01-09

Published 22 May 2019 Henrik Jörntell (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) A European consortium, led from Lund University, is to receive SEK 50 million from the EU for research which is to develop our understanding of the functional mechanisms of the brain. The research project, called INTUITIVE, is one of the Innovative Training Networks within the framework of Horizon 2020. The aim of the project is to d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-sek-50-million-research-brains-mechanisms - 2025-01-09

Published 24 May 2019 Anna Persson (Photo: Anna Maria Erling) The greatest threat to biodiversity today is different species losing their habitats. To reverse this trend will require action on many societal levels, and there are simple things you can do in your own garden to help, according to Lund University researchers Anna Persson and Caroline Isaksson. In many countries, factors such as large-

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gardening-tips-five-easy-ways-contribute-biodiversity - 2025-01-09

Published 27 May 2019 Photo: Istock Optic fiber broadband expansion could be reducing companies’ performance and turnover, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The explanation proposed by the researchers is that the internet and smartphones are a distraction that reduces employee productivity, and blurs lines between personal and work-related internet use. The conclusion should

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/super-fast-broadband-may-have-negative-side-effects-companies - 2025-01-09

Published 14 June 2019 To the left: a demonstration in Lund in 1950. (Photo: Firma Hagblom-Foto, from the Lund University archives.) To the right: Erik Bengtsson. In a new study, Lund University economic historian Erik Bengtsson debunks the myth that Sweden was destined to become a social democratic country. Instead, he argues that it was actually against all odds, as Sweden in the early 1900s was

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-sweden-went-least-democratic-welfare-state - 2025-01-09

Published 19 June 2019 Researcher Louise Brunkwall at Lund University explains how three risk factors are involved in obesity. Louise Brunkwall recently defended her PhD thesis Obesity; with a focus on diet quality and gut microbiota. In this clip, she discusses how the three known risk factors for obesity interplay to determine your risk: Contact:Louise Brunkwalllouise [dot] brunkwall [at] med [d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-three-risk-factors-behind-obesity - 2025-01-09

Published 20 June 2019 Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and 92nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2020. With 26 000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s universities.The QS World University Rankings 2

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-swedens-top-ranked-university-qs-world-university-rankings-2020 - 2025-01-09

Published 25 June 2019 The experiment (Photo: Chris Collingridge) Researchers have shown for the first time that an animal uses different directional sensors to achieve the highest possible navigational precision in different conditions. When the sun is high, dung beetles navigate using the wind. The discovery of the dung beetles’ wind compass and how it complements the sun compass was made by an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dung-beetles-use-wind-compass-when-sun-high - 2025-01-09

Published 25 June 2019 Photo: Mostphotos Researchers from Lund University, together with the Roche pharmaceutical company, have used a method to develop a new blood marker capable of detecting whether or not a person has Alzheimer’s disease. If the method is approved for clinical use, the researchers hope eventually to see it used as a diagnostic tool in primary healthcare. This autumn, they will

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-detecting-alzheimers-disease - 2025-01-09

Published 26 June 2019 Jonas Sonnenschein (Photo: Blaž Samec) New research suggests that green growth climate mitigation policies are not sufficient for reaching the ambitious targets of the Paris Agreement, to limit global warming to well below 2°C by the end of the century. Green growth policies dominate the climate change mitigation discourse, but how much can they contribute to rapid decarboni

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/current-green-growth-policies-are-not-enough-reach-paris-agreement-climate-targets - 2025-01-09