Published 29 January 2016 Kenichi Miharada's work with his team Department of Laboratory Medicine Lund, on bile acids was recently published in the Cell Stem Cell journal. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter A research group at Lund University has been able to show that bile acid is transferred from the mother to the foetus via the placenta to enable the foetus to produce blood stem cells. Bile acids are normal

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bile-acid-supports-production-blood-stem-cells - 2025-04-17

Published 2 February 2016 New research findings support better understanding of the different types of cancer cells in, and their impact on, tumours. Photo: Kennet Ruona New research shows that a small minority of cancer cells in neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas contribute to the overall growth and metastasis of the tumour. This discovery was made by a research group at Lund University, in c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/minority-cancer-cells-affect-growth-and-metastasis-tumours - 2025-04-17

Published 3 February 2016 Likki-Lee speaking in the General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters, NYC Her interest in language took her all the way to the UN headquarters in New York City to take part in the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest. For Likki-Lee Pitzen it was a jaw-dropping experience and now she calls for other students to do the same. Likki-Lee Pitzen had just finished her Master's pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/representing-lund-university-un-general-assembly - 2025-04-17

Published 3 February 2016 Industrial Design student Bo Möller shows how easily their new alarm can be attached to the bag. Photo: C. Schubert Leave your bag unsupervised without running the risk of thieves stealing it? That could be the case as a unique idea of a small, high-tech alarm from Master's students at Lund University is now coming to life. “I was by myself on a beach in Mexico and had to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-invent-alarm-protects-your-unattended-bag - 2025-04-17

Published 8 February 2016 Osteologist Adam Boethius (fourth from the left) at his excavation in Blekinge, Sweden. Adam has found the oldest storage of fermentet fish indicating the Nordic prehistory started earlier than previously thought. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/signs-early-settlement-nordic-region-date-back-cradle-civilisation - 2025-04-17

Published 8 February 2016 Researcher Anne Nilsson cutting barley bread at her lab. Photo: Kennet Ruona A recent study from Lund University in Sweden shows that barley can rapidly improve people’s health by reducing blood sugar levels and the risk for diabetes. The secret lies in the special mixture of dietary fibres found in barley, which can also help reduce people’s appetite and risk for cardiov

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-barley-helps-improve-blood-sugar-levels-and-reduce-appetite - 2025-04-17

Published 12 February 2016 Thanks to an innovative energy-saving solar-based water purification technology, rural areas in Bangladesh are now able to access safe drinking water. Photo: K. M. Persson Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a water purification plant that provides clean water far beyond the reach of the electrical grid – thanks to solar cells. With the help of Nobel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-solar-cells-help-purify-water-remote-areas - 2025-04-17

Published 18 February 2016 Research shows former childhood cancer patients’ eye movement is affected by treatment. Photo: B. Brenneman Nowadays, the lives of the majority of all children with cancer can be spared. However, the cure for the disease comes with a price: some of the survivors will suffer long-term injury from the treatment. A study from Lund University in Sweden now shows that commonl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eye-movement-affected-former-childhood-cancer-patients - 2025-04-17

Published 22 February 2016 Research from Lund University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that sugar could in the future be used to discover malignant tumours. Photo: Melissa Wiese Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance tomography examinations of tumours. Malignant tumours show higher sugar consumption than surrounding tissue.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-sugar-detect-malignant-tumours - 2025-04-17

Published 22 February 2016 The Trombe wall ventilation system (to the left) has through a research project been modified to be used both for heating and cooling using renewable energy sources. Photo: Insaf Ben Othman Researcher Marwa Dabaieh from Lund University in Sweden has come up with a way to adapt the so-called Trombe wall – a passive solar building design from the 19th century – to not only

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-trombe-wall-now-used-both-cool-and-heat-buildings-using-renewable-energy-sources - 2025-04-17

Published 26 February 2016 Researchers can now show that a parallel computer utilising molecular motors can find correct solutions to a combinatorial problem, rapidly and energy-efficiently. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have utilised nanotechnology to create a biological computer that can solve certain mathematical problems far faster and more energy-efficiently than conventional elect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-nanotechnology-create-parallel-computers - 2025-04-17

Published 29 February 2016 Lars-Erik Wernersson hopes the new research project INSIGHT will help meet the increasing performance demands at millimetre-wave frequencies Improved radar image resolution and faster data transfer within 5G networks. These are some of the results that would be achieved by a new research project called INSIGHT, which is funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020 and coordin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-high-performance-radar-and-5g-communication - 2025-04-17

Published 3 March 2016 New research finds that the hormone ethinyl-estradiol, an active substance in many birth control pills, affects both fish behaviour and their genetics. Photo: B. Olsen A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows that hormones found in birth control pills alter the genes in fish, which can cause changes in their behaviour. The thesis also shows that nurse midwi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oestrogen-birth-control-pills-has-negative-impact-fish - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 3 februari 2016 I Lokaltidningen Lund går det att läsa 26 oktober 2016  Nyligen tilldelas Odeum och dess director musices Patrik Andersson Lunds universitetshistoriska sällskaps pris på 25 000 kronor.  Årets mottagare får priset med motiveringen ”för den stora betydelse Odeum genom sitt studentburna musicerande har för Lunds universitet, den akademiska miljön och staden Lund. Patrik And

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Publicerad 26 oktober 2016 Wilhelm Theodor Gnosspelius, född i Stockholm 28 december 1809 och avliden i Lund 13 augusti 1887, var violinist, organist, dirigent, musikorganisatör och tonsättare. Han var verksam i Stockholm från 1822, i Linköping från 1843 och i Lund från 1858. Gnosspelius skrev musik i klassisk-romantisk stil, främst tillfällighetskantater, men också kammar- och kyrkomusik. Han ble

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Publicerad 14 november 2016 Inte bara första pris i division 1 utan också hederspris till dirigent Roger Andersson och pris för bästa sektion i division 1 till slagverkssektionen kom brassbandet hem med efter helgens SM i Värnamo. Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av bandets dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lunds-universitets-brassband-tog-hem-brassbands-sm - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 6 februari 2017 Festivalhelgen Lund Contemporary blev en stor publiksuccé, med 1600 besökare på totalt 9 evenemang.   Musikalisk rundvandring på Skissernas Museum. Foto: David Riebe 20 uruppföranden fördelade på sju välbesökta konserter, en föreläsning om förhållandet mellan musik och bildkonst på Skissernas Museum och en paneldebatt om vår tids musik i Kapellsalen - allt detta lockade

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-1600-besok - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 12 november 2018 Fotograf Olof Forsberg Lunds universitets brassband har under ledning av dirigent Roger Andersson vunnit första pris i division 1 i svenska mästerskapen i brassband. Tävlingarna hölls under Svenska Brassbandfestivalen 9-10 november i Värnamo, där ett 30-tal brassband från hela Sverige deltog. Lunds universitets brassband segrade i första divisionen med totalt 92 poäng a

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Publicerad 7 december 2018 Crafoordska stiftelsen har tilldelat Odeum 75 000 kr i bidrag till festivalen Lund Contemporary. Festivalen anordnades för första gången 2017 och blev då en publiksuccé. Nästa upplaga, Lund Contemporary 2019, går av stapeln 7-10 februari. Läs mer om festivalen och dess program här!

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/75-000-kr-till-lund-contemporary - 2025-04-17

Publicerad 11 februari 2019 Tonsättare och dirigenter tackar för applåderna efter den stora körkonserten "9-9-9" under Lund Contemporary 2019. Lund Contemporary 2019 lockade en månghövdad publik. Efter helgen kunde vi summera totalt ca 1350 besök. Festivalen bjöd på 10 olika evenemang och mer än 30 (!) världspremiärer av nyskrivna musikstycken! Liksom första upplagan av festivalen, för två år seda

https://www.odeum.lu.se/artikel/lund-contemporary-drog-storpublik-igen - 2025-04-17