Published 23 August 2022 Photo: Unsplash By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history.The standard dating method since the 1950s has

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-develop-first-ai-based-method-dating-archeological-remains - 2025-03-08

Published 24 August 2022 Photo: iStock/andresr Around 80% of people with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer’s disease, often when they are between 40 and 50 years old. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that a simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome with a high degree of certainty. The findings are important for several reasons, not least the abil

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-detects-alzheimers-people-down-syndrome - 2025-03-08

Published 25 August 2022 The environment in which breast cancer arises –the interplay between the patient’s BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins –is of importance for the prognosis. This is shown in a study from Lund University in Sweden. The knowledge could further enhance precision medicine in breast cancer. Major advances in diagnostics and treatment have improved survival rates among

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis - 2025-03-08

Published 30 August 2022 Photo: Unsplash The most common analytical method within population genetics is deeply flawed, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This may have led to incorrect results and misconceptions about ethnicity and genetic relationships. The method has been used in hundreds of thousands of studies, affecting results within medical genetics and even commercia

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-reveals-flaws-popular-genetic-method - 2025-03-08

Published 2 September 2022 Sandra Lindstedt, Snejana Hyllén, and Leif Pierre A large amount of lungs donated cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital have conducted an animal study bringing hope that more donor lungs could be used in the future. The researchers have launched a pilot study to investigate whether the treatment will ha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-treatment-could-result-more-donor-lungs - 2025-03-08

Published 6 September 2022 Per Augustsson, Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his work on how liquids and cells behave in a sound field. A total of 55 researchers from around Europe will each receive EUR 150,000 from the European Research Council to investigate the commercial potential of their rese

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-separating-cells-using-ultrasound - 2025-03-08

Published 15 September 2022 Photo: Albin Belsing Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by these bees were smaller. This is shown by a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Strawberries are known to become bigger if bees have visited their flowers, but how strawberry growth is affected i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/strawberries-were-smaller-when-bees-ingested-pesticides - 2025-03-08

Published 16 September 2022 Photo: Brett Seymour New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden. The wreck is internationally significant as the world’s best-preserved ship from the Age of Exploration – a proxy for the vessels of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama. During

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-edge-science-reveals-gribshundens-shipwrecked-secrets - 2025-03-08

Published 23 September 2022 Illustration: NASA JPL-Caltech R. Hurt (SSC Caltech) Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of millions of years ago

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mysterious-ripples-milky-way-were-caused-passing-dwarf-galaxy - 2025-03-08

Published 26 September 2022 Photo: Eva Darron/Unsplash The lab that will take us closer to the aviation fuel of the future has now opened. The Jet Engine Lab at Lund University makes it possible to conduct full-scale studies on how engines are affected by new fuels – knowledge that will become increasingly important when fossil-based aviation fuels are phased out and replaced by more sustainable a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aviation-fuel-lab-opened - 2025-03-08

Published 29 September 2022 Photo: Lars Johansson/Mostphotos A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in so

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2025-03-08

Published 5 October 2022 Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. Photo by Kennet Ruona. In the past week, several reports of the human rights protests in Iran have reached the wider world. Lund University has also been touched by these protests, which have spread and are now visible in the West, on the streets, in social media and the European Parliament, for example. Lund University stands up for and safe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/we-can-provide-knowledge-when-human-rights-are-violated-vice-chancellors-blog - 2025-03-08

Published 13 October 2022 Memorandum being signed by three people with two people in the background, and the Swedish, Dutch and EU flags Skåne University Hospital, Lund University and Leiden University Medical Center will collaborate to develop research, education and care delivery in the field of ATMPs (Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products). That is the essence of a Memorandum of Understanding tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/international-collaboration-strengthen-development-atmps - 2025-03-08

By sanna [dot] trygg [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Sanna Trygg) - published 19 October 2022 The new excavations in Uppåkra are at the forefront of cutting edge archaeological techniques. By combining big data, data modelling and DNA sequencing, researchers are currently solving significant parts of a historical puzzle. Perhaps we will learn whether the Justinianic Plague, the forerunner o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/modern-archaeology-reveals-secrets-iron-age-power-centre - 2025-03-08

Published 18 October 2022 Photo: Julian Melgar Males and females are affected in different ways by cooperation and competition in social groups – something that could determine which group sizes work best. According to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, this depends to a large extent quite simply on females and males having different interests. Over a seven-year period, the researchers st

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/differences-male-and-female-ostriches-could-explain-how-they-form-groups - 2025-03-08

Published 19 October 2022 Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht (Photos: Björn Walse, Kennet Ruona, Johan Joelsson) Mikael Akke, Göran Jönsson, Sara Linse and Mathieu Gisselbrecht of Lund University in Sweden have been awarded considerable grants from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over a five-year period, they will conduct major projects on allosteric signalli

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lund-researchers-receive-sek-120-million-wallenberg-foundation - 2025-03-08

Published 19 October 2022 Photo: iStock/eyepark Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that the risk of being affected increases in the case of high blood sugar. The study has been published in Diabetes Care. Trigger finger means that one or more fingers, often the ring finge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hands-people-diabetes-more-often-affected-trigger-finger - 2025-03-08

By jessika [dot] sellergren [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessika Sellergren) - published 19 October 2022 Virtual reality might be the closest we can get to a time machine. For instance, it can be used to experience historical communities – such as the Iron Age city of Uppåkra in southern Sweden, according to LU researcher Mattias Wallergård. Mattias Wallergård has done research on virtual reality a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vr-helps-us-experience-historical-places - 2025-03-08

Published 20 October 2022 Dopamine-producing neurons that researchers from Lund University have grown in the laboratory from human embryonic stem cells. Photo: Agnete Kirkeby. An investigational stem cell-based therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, STEM-PD, has been given regulatory approval for a Phase I/IIa clinical trial. Ethical approval of the trial has already been obtained from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedish-medical-products-agency-grants-approval-clinical-study-new-stem-cell-based-parkinsons - 2025-03-08

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 26 October 2022 The song and the opportunity to learn a musical instrument improves language learning, reading skills, concentration and attention in children. Photo: iStockphoto Singing can be a real health boost. Song involves your emotions, thoughts and body; the feelgood hormone oxytocin surges and the stress hor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/childrens-songs-link-ones-inner-self-and-others - 2025-03-08