Published 22 February 2017 Cajsa Davegårdh (Photo: Sara Liedholm) Obesity is associated with reduced muscle mass and impaired metabolism. Epigenetic changes that affect the formation of new muscle cells may be a contributing factor, according to new research from Lund University, Sweden. In a new study, doctoral student Cajsa Davegårdh has studied so-called DNA methylation in muscle stem cells in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/obesity-reprogrammes-muscle-stem-cells - 2025-02-07

Published 22 February 2017 On Wednesday 22 February, the Governor General of Canada David Johnston will visit Lund together with King Carl XVI Gustaf in the context of a major Canadian state visit. In Lund, the King and the Governor General will attend a presentation of the MAX IV and ESS research facilities. There will also be a round-table discussion on the theme "Where to next? The benefits and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/king-sweden-and-canadas-governor-general-visit-lund - 2025-02-07

Published 23 February 2017 David Bryder (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Our blood stem cells generate around a thousand billion new blood cells every day. But the blood stem cells’ capacity to produce blood changes as we age. This leads to older people being more susceptible to anaemia, lowered immunity and a greater risk of developing certain kinds of blood cancer. Now for the first time, a research tea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-blood-can-be-rejuvenated - 2025-02-07

Published 28 February 2017 Photo: Carola Yovanovich The night vision of frogs and toads appears to be superior to that of all other animals. They have the ability to see colour even when it is so dark that humans are not able to see anything at all. This has been shown in a new study by researchers from Lund University in Sweden. Most vertebrates, including humans, have two types of visual cells l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/frogs-have-unique-ability-see-colour-dark - 2025-02-07

Published 5 March 2017 Lund University celebrates its 350th anniversary by organising the first out of five science weeks, starting with the topic: Is the World Becoming a Better Place? The week takes place 6–12 March 2017 in Lund, Sweden, and includes almost 20 open seminars, activities and debates. It almost seems as if there is no end to the major global challenges that we face, including globa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/science-week-world-becoming-better-place - 2025-02-07

Published 8 March 2017 Photo: Blekinge Museum A unique trove of bone material from the 9,200 year old coastal settlement Norje Sunnansund in Blekinge, Sweden, has revealed that surprisingly sophisticated hunting strategies were used at the time. One key find was that the early Mesolithic humans practiced so-called selective hunting – seemingly in order to maximise gain and preserve the local popul

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-selective-hunting-strategies-and-delayed-return-lifestyle-among-ancient-foragers - 2025-02-07

Published 8 March 2017 In the QS World University Rankings by Subjects 2017 released today, Lund University once again reinforces its position as a top 100 University. Four Lund University subjects are ranked in the top 50 in the new QS 2017 subject ranking: geography (26th) environmental sciences (38th) development studies (32nd) nursing (49th) An additional 16 subjects are ranked in the top 100

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/top-100-rank-20-lund-university-subjects-new-qs-subject-ranking - 2025-02-07

Published 8 March 2017 David Gisselsson Nord (Photo: Kennet Ruona) When David Gisselsson Nord, a cancer researcher at Lund University in Sweden, read a history book last summer, he was struck by the similarities between how cancer and insurgencies evolve over time. Could military strategy be used as inspiration for cancer treatment? He teamed up with Robert Egnell at the Swedish Defence University

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-what-cancer-research-can-learn-military-strategy - 2025-02-07

Published 13 March 2017 Illustration: Per Uvdal Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund – the strongest of its kind in the world - to produce images that predate the formation of toxic clumps of beta-amyloid, the protein believed to be at the root of Alzheimer’s disease. The unique images appear to contradict a previously unchallenged consensus. Instead of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/never-seen-images-early-stage-alzheimers-disease - 2025-02-07

Published 15 March 2017 Johan Hollander Rarely do we encounter a scientific fact that stirs public controversy and distrust in science as much as climate change. However, the theory is built on honest reporting of facts. This emerges from a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The study in question investigates whether there is a so-called publication bias within climate research, i.e. a stat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/no-publication-bias-found-climate-change-research - 2025-02-07

Published 20 March 2017 Illustration of a network-based biocomputer (Till Korten) Crashing computers or smartphones - and security loopholes that allow hackers to steal millions of passwords - could be prevented if it were possible to design error-free software. To date, this is a problem that neither engineers nor current supercomputers have been able to solve. A major reason for this is the comp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/biological-supercomputers-be-powered-molecular-motors - 2025-02-07

Published 21 March 2017 Samuel Bengtsson and Johan Mauritsson in the laser lab We may soon get better insight into the microcosm and the world of electrons. Researchers at Lund University and Louisiana State University have developed a tool that makes it possible to control extreme UV light - light with much shorter wavelengths than visible light. The new method uses strong laser pulses to direct

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/electrons-used-control-ultrashort-laser-pulses - 2025-02-07

Published 9 October 2017 Helena Elding Larsson There has been a fear that the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, would increase the risk of autoimmune diseases other than narcolepsy. However, a new study of children from Sweden and Finland shows that the vaccine increased neither the risk of developing autoantibodies against insulin-producing beta cells nor the occurrence of type 1 diabetes. “On the co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/risk-type-1-diabetes-not-increased-swine-flu-vaccine-pandemrix - 2025-02-07

Published 10 October 2017 Liyana Yusof Spinach is a nutritious vegetable, but is not recommended for infants because of its nitrate content. Now a doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden presents a simple method capable of reducing the nitrate content by up to 70 per cent. Nitrate is a common nutrient for plants and is therefore also present in other leafy green vegetables, such as arugula

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-method-reduces-nitrate-content-spinach - 2025-02-07

Published 17 October 2017 Photo: Ajay Narendra How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For the first time, researchers have been able to show what happens in the brain of the bee. The bee brain Bees and many other animals use what is known as optical flow to determine how fast they are going and how far they h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-bees-find-their-way-home - 2025-02-07

Published 17 October 2017 Tasbacka danica (Photo: Johan Lindgren) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered well-preserved pigments and other biomolecules in a 54 million-year-old baby sea turtle. The molecular analyses show that the turtle’s shell contained pigments to protect it from harmful UV rays of the sun. The researchers investigated the microscopic and molecular contents of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exceptionally-preserved-sea-turtle-reveals-ancient-sun-protection - 2025-02-07

Published 19 October 2017 Photo: Kristina Lindgärde In recent years, electric roads have emerged as potential alternatives to the heavy and expensive batteries currently needed in electric road vehicles. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an even smarter technology – that doesn’t require digging up stretches of road to install the system. Instead, a small conductive rail i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-electric-road-offers-flexible-charging - 2025-02-07

Published 20 October 2017 Food researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that consuming small amounts of chromium mixed with certain amino acids before eating is healthy. Why? Well, this mixture diluted in water suppresses the blood sugar spike that occurs when we eat. Now, they are hoping that the drink – which tastes like ordinary mineral water – will be able to compete with soft

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-drink-keeps-blood-sugar-check - 2025-02-07

Published 20 October 2017 Håkan Håkansson (Photo: Jenny Loftrup) A new online portal opening today at Lund University in Sweden makes a unique archive containing first-hand accounts from Nazi concentration camp survivors freely accessible to the general public. During World War II, Ravensbrück, north of Berlin in Germany, was a concentration camp mainly reserved for women and children. During the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/holocaust-survivors-stories-made-available-online - 2025-02-07

Av Cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - publicerad 8 oktober 2020 Vad händer den dagen antibiotikan slutar att fungera? Hur ser livet i en post-antibiotisk tid egentligen ut? Den 14 oktober diskuterar forskare från en rad olika discipliner vid Lunds universitet hur en framtid utan antibiotika skulle kunna se ut och delar med sig av den senaste forskningen i

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/nar-antibiotikan-slutat-att-fungera - 2025-02-07