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Published 22 January 2015 Lund University remains 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 43,817 students who applied to autumn 2015 Master’s programmes at Swedish universities, 14,821 applied to Lund University programmes. Thi
Published 23 January 2015 Recent research shows that mild infections without symptoms of illness can still lead to serious consequences by reducing the lifespan of the infected individuals. The study at Lund University in Sweden has been carried out on malaria-infected migratory birds. The infection is thought to speed up the ageing process by shortening the telomeres (i.e., the chromosomes ends)
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hidden-infection-shortens-life - 2025-02-07
Published 28 January 2015 David Gisselsson Nord A research group at Lund University in Sweden has found a new way to identify the most malignant tumours in children. The method involves studying genetic ‘micro-variation’, rather than the presence of individual mutations. In adult cancers, the tumour cells are more genetically variable than healthy cells. When a cancerous cell divides, the chromoso
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-identifying-most-aggressive-childhood-cancers - 2025-02-07
Published 29 January 2015 During the traditional ceremony, former Vice-Chancellor, Professor Per Eriksson, handed over the Vice-Chancellor’s chains to Torbjörn von Schantz. Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz was inaugurated with pomp and ceremony in the university assembly hall on Wednesday 28 January 2015. Torbjörn von Schantz is Vice-Chancellor of Lund University for the period 1 January 2015–
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vice-chancellor-torbjorn-von-schantz-inaugurated - 2025-02-07
Published 5 February 2015 We have an innate mechanism that ensures that our blood vessels do not become blocked. The protein A1M, alpha-1-microglobulin, is naturally present in the body and prevents oxidation of blood fats – a major cause of atherosclerosis. The discovery is the work of a research group led by Professor Bo Åkerström from Lund University. VIDEO: How 'cleaner' protein protects us“At
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-cleaner-protein-protects-against-atherosclerosis - 2025-02-07
Published 6 February 2015 Nathalie Knopp Food waste is completely bananas, according to a group of Master’s students in Food Technology at Lund University in Sweden. In fact, a significant amount of the 100 million tonnes of bananas produced annually worldwide is discarded before it even reach consumers. WATCH: Students make gluten-free banana flourThe Lund University students were asked to find w
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-create-gluten-free-banana-flour - 2025-02-07
Published 11 February 2015 We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisatio
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2025-02-07
Published 11 February 2015 Johanna Månsson Extremely premature babies that reach the age of two and a half demonstrate significantly poorer cognition, language and motor skills than children born at full term. The new study from Lund University in Sweden is one of few to study children born prematurely at such a young age. The results could be used to provide help at the right time. Extremely prem
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-assesses-premature-babies-25-years-old - 2025-02-07
Published 12 February 2015 The new Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University, which will focus on regenerative medicine, is part of a national plan to re-establish Sweden’s leading position in medical research. The centre is being funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, in collaboration with Lund University and Region Skåne. “It is very gratifying that the foundation
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-molecular-medicine-centre-lund-university - 2025-02-07
Published 13 February 2015 A production facility for start-ups in the field of nanotechnology may be built in the Science Village in Lund, a world-class research and innovation village that is also home to ESS, the European Spallation Source. “With this new facility, we want to create the conditions to enable new companies to develop from the R&D phase to full production, without needing to leave
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-facility-planned-lund - 2025-02-07
Published 18 February 2015 Shai Mulinari A new report from Lund University in Sweden shows how the pharmaceutical industry time and again violates regulations on the marketing of drugs. The study has been published in the journal PLOS Medicine. In order to avoid unethical marketing, the pharmaceutical industry has a well-established system of self-regulation. There are individual national systems,
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pharmaceutical-companies-violate-own-regulations - 2025-02-07
Published 18 February 2015 Researchers have long sought treatments that can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Current treatments have for decades been only symptomatic in nature, supplying the neurotransmitter dopamine, which the dying nerve cells can no longer produce. Results from a recent clinical study offer hope that future therapies could take advantage of the brain's own protecti
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-growth-factor-indicates-possible-regenerative-effects-parkinsons-disease - 2025-02-07
Published 23 June 2014 Social anthropologist Anna Hedlund with members of the FDLR Hutu militia (faces pixelated to prevent recognition). Photo: private The Hutu militia FDLR, who were behind the genocide in Rwanda, now live in eastern Congo, one of a number of rebel groups in the war-torn country. Lund University social anthropologist Anna Hedlund has lived with the group and describes the system
Published 13 June 2014 A new study suggests hairdressers are exposed to substances that can cause bladder cancer. Over recent years, there have been a number of reports suggesting that aromatic amines, carcinogenic compounds that can cause bladder cancer, may be present as contaminants in certain hair dyes. In the study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have investigated to what extent h
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hairdressers-exposed-carcinogenic-substances - 2025-02-07
Published 11 June 2014 Diabetes is a disease that is increasing exponentially worldwide, largely as a result of the food we eat and because we exercise too little. Diabetes causes great personal suffering and shortens lifespan, as well as placing a heavy economic burden on society as whole and our health care systems in particular. This summer, Paul Franks, a professor at Lund University Diabetes
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ironman-support-diabetes-research - 2025-02-07
Published 2 June 2014 Many people with cystic fibrosis develop diabetes. The reasons for this have been largely unknown, but now researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Karolinska institutet have identified a molecular mechanism that contributes to the raised diabetes risk. “The increased risk of diabetes has previously been explained by the fact that cystic fibrosis causes damage to the panc
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cystic-fibrosis-and-diabetes-link-explained - 2025-02-07
Published 28 May 2014 Zebra fish (Wikimedia commons) Swimming fish do not appear to use their collision warning system in the same way as flying insects, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden that has compared how zebra fish and bumblebees avoid collisions. The fish surprised the researchers. All animals need some form of warning system that prevents them colliding with objects
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-more-inclined-crash-bees - 2025-02-07
Published 27 May 2014 Two years ago, a new type of stem cell was discovered in the brain that has the capacity to form new cells. The same research group at Lund University in Sweden has now revealed that these stem cells, which are located in the outer blood vessel wall, appear to be involved in the brain reaction following a stroke. The findings show that the cells, known as pericytes, drop out
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/migrating-stem-cells-and-stroke - 2025-02-07
Published 22 May 2014 Sweden is the top provider of higher education in Europe, second only to the U.S. in the world, a global study has found for the third year running. Sweden's higher education system was also ranked best in the world, when each country’s level of economic development was taken into account.* The ranking of the 50 countries worldwide was done by Universitas 21, a global network
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedish-higher-education-best-europe - 2025-02-07
Published 16 May 2014 In Parkinson’s disease (PD), dopamine-producing nerve cells that control our movements waste away. Current treatments for PD therefore aim at restoring dopamine contents in the brain. In a new study from Lund University, researchers are attacking the problem from a different angle, through early activation of a protein that improves the brain’s capacity to cope with a host of
