Published 20 September 2016 Malin Parmar, Professor of Cellular neurosciences. Photo: Kennet Ruona Is it possible to convert a patient’s own skin cells into functioning nerve cells? Or insert healthy genes to reprogram the cells of a damaged brain? Stem cell researcher Malin Parmar at Lund University in Sweden is studying these types of issues, in close collaboration with clinical researchers. She

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Published 21 September 2016 Lund University is ranked in 96th place in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016/17. The Times Higher Education ranking follows on from the recent release of the QS World University Rankings 2016/17, in which Lund University is ranked 73rd best in the world and the number one university in Sweden.The Times Higher Education ranking lists

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Published 23 September 2016 Welcome to the annual Law Day at Lund University on 1 October 2016. Photo: K. Ruona We are pleased to invite you to Law Day at the Faculty of Law on Saturday 1 October! The day will include interesting and thought-provoking popular science lectures held by our teaching staff and researchers, inspiring guided tours including a visit to our library, moot courts with judge

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Published 23 September 2016 Horse-flies are highly attracted to darker-coated horses but not as much white horses. Scientists have now uncovered why this is. Photo: Shutterstock Susanne Åkesson, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize. The prize, which she shares with six other researchers from Hungary and Spain, was presented

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Published 23 September 2016 New study indicates that the amount of gluten could be a more important clue than breast-feeding or the timing of the introduction of gluten for continued research into the causes of gluten intolerance. Photo: Shutterstock The amount of gluten could be a more important clue than breast-feeding or the timing of the introduction of gluten for continued research into the c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-delimits-possible-causes-celiac-disease - 2025-04-01

Published 26 September 2016 Jiri Lukas (left) and Jiri Bartek (right), the 2016 recipient of the Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize.P otographer: Kennet Ruona This year’s Nordic Prize from the Fernström Foundation – one of the largest medical prizes in Scandinavia– is awarded to two cancer researchers, Jiri Bartek and Jiri Lukas, for their research on cellular responses to DNA damage. Genetically dama

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Published 27 September 2016 The PSI synchrotron radiation facility in Switzerland. To the left is the beamline that sends out the X-rays. The sample is attached to the small copper plate slightly to the right, and in the right-hand corner is the detector. PHOTO: Jenny Andersson Researchers at the Faculty of Science at Lund University in Sweden can now explain how the properties of the skin change

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Published 28 September 2016 The brain of an Alzheimer’s patient in a tau PET image. Red indicates the areas with the highest concentration of the tau protein. In the magnifying glass, a microscope enlargement showing the dark red streaks and islands of tau. Illustration: M. Schöll Tau PET is a new and promising imaging method for Alzheimer’s disease. A case study from Lund University in Sweden now

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-imaging-technique-alzheimers-disease-opens-possibilities-new-drug-development - 2025-04-01

Published 2 October 2016 Foreign agricultural companies in Africa are draining the fresh water resources and increasing the competition for water. Photo: Shutterstock For the first time, researchers point to areas in Africa where foreign agricultural companies’ choice of crops and management of fresh water are partly responsible for the increased water shortages and greater competition for water.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/foreign-farms-increase-risk-conflicts-africa - 2025-04-01

Published 4 October 2016 Researchers reconstruct house from old Pompeii using 3D technology By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius thousands of years ago. Unique video material has now been produced, showing their creation of

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Published 6 October 2016 New study looks at ways to successfully conduct breast cancer screening with less pain for women. Photo: Shutterstock The breast cancer screening tests offered to women may in many cases be unnecessarily painful. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that strong compression of the breast during mammography screening does not automatically lead to a better basis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-screening-could-be-better-and-less-painful - 2025-04-01

Published 7 October 2016 Review look at what we know so far about the link between diabetes type 2 and obesity. Photo: PracticalCures.com Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledg

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Published 11 October 2016 A cell on the move. The process of migration shown in images taken with 15 second intervals. The colours show the force needed to migrate – red representing the most force. Photo: Pontus Nordenfelt It’s a known fact that cells can move around the body, but how they do it has been unknown – until now. Researcher in Infection Medicine Pontus Nordenfelt at Lund University in

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Published 14 October 2016 Small-scale farmin in Southeast Asia is threatening surrounding forests reports new study. Photo: Y. Clough An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental impact, biodiversity and the economy, ov

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By emma [dot] holm [at] education [dot] lu [dot] se (Emma Holm) - published 14 October 2016 75 percent of all people with haemophilia around the world are left untreated, which causes a great deal of suffering and many severe disabilities. But it is possible to lead a healthy life. This is what the internationally known contract education Haemophilia – from diagnosis to therapy is about. Some 10 y

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pioneering-course-decreases-suffering-people-haemophilia-around-world - 2025-04-01

Published 14 October 2016 A skeleton was found during construction work at Leine castle in Niedersachsen, Germany in the summer of 2016. This is where Swedish count Philip Christoph Königsmarck disappeared 322 years ago – could it be him? Lund University in Sweden follows the dangerous love story between Philip Königsmarck and Georg Ludwig’s wife Sophia Dorothea through the love letters they wrote

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Published 14 October 2016 The image shows how the negative pressure treatment of a wound works. Illustration: Stine Høxbroe, Copenhagen, Denmark Shorter wound healing time, fewer dressing changes and the opportunity for earlier discharge from the hospital. These are some of the benefits of negative pressure wound therapy to treat wound infections in connection with vascular surgery at the groin. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-healing-infected-wounds-using-negative-pressure-technique - 2025-04-01

Published 17 October 2016 Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Saha

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Published 17 October 2016 In the first US presidential debate there were many who noticed Donald Trump’s sniffling. It created a twitter storm under the hashtag #TrumpSniffles and the media became extremely interested in the presidential candidate’s health. However, Lisa Flower, a doctoral student in Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, who is currently doing research on emotions, offers an alter

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Published 17 October 2016 Professor Oksana Mont discusses the the concept of Sustainable Welfare, a key topic in the newly released anthology Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare. Photo: K. Ruona There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are conside

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2025-04-01