Published 11 December 2023 "We can expect our food to be made in a completely different way than we are used to in the future," says professor of biotechnology Eva Nordberg Karlsson, here in the lab at Kemicentrum in Lund. Lund University and Tetra Pak Processing are joining forces to build one of the largest precision fermentation research facilities in the Nordics. Microorganisms will be selecte

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-waste-be-transformed-food-new-lab-lund - 2025-03-02

Published 13 December 2023 Researchers Tina Rönn, Charlotte Ling and Karl Bacos have led the work on a study that examines whether epigenetic changes contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. Photo: Petra Olsson. Do epigenetic changes cause type 2 diabetes, or do the changes occur only after a person has become ill? A new study by researchers at Lund University provides increased support f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-can-cause-type-2-diabetes - 2025-03-02

Published 9 January 2024 Tuesday 9 January is Arrival Day, when international students arrive at Lund University from around the world. The University receives students from over 130 countries. During the spring semester, approximately 800 new international students are expected to start their studies at Lund University. On Arrival Day, some 450 students are expected to arrive.These students inclu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-800-new-international-students - 2025-03-02

Published 10 January 2024 Ganna Petruk and Artur Schmidtchen, two of the reserchers behind the study of a new treatment strategy for severe bacterial infections. Photo: Tove Smeds. The development of a new treatment strategy for bacterial infections and sepsis is being led by researchers at Lund University. In a study the researchers demonstrate how they, by mimicking a substance naturally present

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/step-closer-treatment-severe-bacterial-infections-and-sepsis - 2025-03-02

Published 15 January 2024 A selection of Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz's art, created during her time in the Ravensbrück camp. An upcoming book featuring reproductions of artworks from the Ravensbrück concentration camp tells the story of the horrific reality its female inmates had to endure. The book has been published entirely thanks to private donations.  In spring 1945, around seven thousand women

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/donations-help-highlight-ravensbruck-art - 2025-03-02

Published 31 January 2024 Photo: Kennet Ruona During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University build

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-03-02

Published 8 February 2024 The Porsmose man from the Neolithic period, killed by two arrows with bone tips (Photo: National Museum of Denmark) Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, among others. The results, which are contrary to prevai

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scandinavias-first-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-gatherer-population - 2025-03-02

Published 15 February 2024 Illustration: DALL-E Our brains are "programmed" to learn more from people we like – and less from those we dislike. This has been shown by researchers in cognitive neuroscience in a series of experiments. Memory serves a vital function, enabling us to learn from new experiences and update existing knowledge. We learn both from individual experiences and from connecting

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brain-programmed-learning-people-we - 2025-03-02

Published 16 February 2024 "What we've made in our lab is much better than what can be found in stores today", Karolina Östbring and Jeanette Purhagen say (Photo: Hilde Skar-Olsen) Vegan food is often sidestepped due to its rubbery consistency. Food technology researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now developed a way to make vegan food more appetising by using new combinations of raw mater

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-manufacturing-method-produces-more-appealing-vegan-meat - 2025-03-02

Published 23 February 2024 Lina Eklund is one of the researchers in the international team working to analyse satellite images of the destruction of Gaza. Physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and Hamas is over, questions of possible war crimes are raised at the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-03-02

Published 26 February 2024 Photo: Mostphotos Recommendations from the WHO on limiting screen time for children under the age of five are almost impossible to follow, and risk causing unnecessary anxiety and stigmatisation of parents of young children. This according to a study from Lund University in Sweden on the digital media habits of young children. Instead, the researchers recommend that pare

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recommendations-young-childrens-screen-time-do-more-harm-good - 2025-03-02

Published 27 February 2024 Rock formations with basalt Léa Lévy, researcher in engineering geology at Lund University, is receiving SEK 5.1 million from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to investigate how much hope can be placed in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it in the rock basalt. Can you tell us a bit about your project, what you are researching?“More

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/will-carbon-capture-stored-basalt-be-climate-savior - 2025-03-02

Published 1 March 2024 Part of the simulated universe. In the center, a galaxy is born through gas that later transforms into stars. The whole process takes billions of years but is simulated in just a few months by supercomputers (Photo: The AGORA Collaboration) Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. Bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-03-02

Published 6 March 2024 Edvin Bågenholm-Ruuth At present, viscose textiles are made of biomass from the forest, and there is no such thing as fully recycled viscose. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now succeeded in making new viscose – from worn-out cotton sheets. Old textiles around the world end up at the rubbish tip and are often burned. In Sweden, they are generally burned to prod

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/completely-recycled-viscose-first-time - 2025-03-02

Published 20 March 2024 Photo: Arne Trautmann/Mostphotos Many of us know that Finland is steadily ranked as the happiest country in the world. The basis for this is the annual World Happiness Report, which is based on a simple question about happiness asked to people around the world. However, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden suggests that it makes people think more about power and wea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-happiness-report-why-we-might-be-measuring-happiness-wrong - 2025-03-02

Published 26 March 2024 Marie Dacke, Mia Liinason, Heiner Linke, Martin Dribe, Tobias Uller, Vanya Darakchieva and Oksana Mont are the new Wallenberg Scholars Twelve researchers at Lund University have been appointed Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that supports excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, technology and the natural sciences.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-wallenberg-scholars-are-announced - 2025-03-02

Publicerad 5 december 2018 Träning är den del av behandlingen vid typ 1-diabetes. Men vad ska man tänka på när man tränar? Vad och när ska man äta? Överläkare Tore Vigård och dietist Maria Malmgren från ungdomsmedicinska kliniken vid Skånes universitetssjukhus delar med sig av sin kunskap. Hur lyckas man med blodsockerbalansen när man tränar och har typ 1-diabetes? Föreläsningen är en del av ett s

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/video-hur-lyckas-man-med-blodsockerbalansen-nar-man-tranar-och-har-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-03-02

Publicerad 3 december 2018 Vad vet vi om vad som händer innan typ 1-diabetes bryter ut? Vilka triggers finns det? Går sjukdomen att bota? Hör professor Åke Lernmark, Lunds universitet, berätta om forskningen om typ 1-diabetes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdFJL-PHLI Föreläsningen är en del av ett seminarium på temat "hopp" arrangerat av Endokrinologiska kliniken, Skånes universitetssjukhus.Ins

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/video-sa-triggas-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-hopp-om-bot - 2025-03-02

Publicerad 30 november 2018 Tänk att slippa sticka sig flera gånger om dagen med insulininjektioner. Tänk att istället andas in insulinet. För tio år sedan verkade det som en sanning. Då lanserade läkemedelsbolaget Pfizer "Exubera", ett insulin som skulle inhaleras. Men sagan blev kort, bara ett år efter lanseringen 2006 drog Pfizer till mångas förvåning tillbaka insulinet från marknaden. I en ny

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/att-andas-insulinet-istallet-att-spruta - 2025-03-02

Publicerad 28 november 2018 Örebroforskare har identifierat tidiga förändringar i ämnesomsättningen hos barn som senare utvecklar typ 1-diabetes – ett viktigt steg för att kunna förebygga sjukdomen. Detta är ett av flera forskningsresultat som presenterades på Nordic Metabolomics Conference. – Vi har identifierat tidiga förändringar när det gäller ämnesomsättningen av fett som påverkar immunsystem

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forandringar-i-amnesomsattningen-paverkar-immunforsvaret - 2025-03-02