Published 14 January 2020 Prof. Mary Higby Schweitzer is without doubt the foremost scientist in the field of molecular palaeobiology. Over the last two decades, she has developed detailed protocols to extract, recover and characterize ancient proteinaceous matter. Additionally, she has been able to demonstrate that collagenous sequences obtained from Late Cretaceous dinosaurs closely match those

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Published 4 March 2020 Our Master Programme in Geology (start 31st of August) will be open for late applications from the 6th of April to the 31st of May: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-NAGEL-BERG https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-NAGEL-BIGE https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-NAGEL-KVRT

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Published 25 March 2020 Dr. John Cherry received the world's most prestigious water award, the Stockholm Water Prize for his lifelong contributions to groundwater science, education, practice and for translating his well-earned stature into a passionate and highly effective advocacy for groundwater science.    Please see the live video announcement from Sweden by the Stockholm International Water

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Publicerad 3 mars 2015 Ett chockat kvartskorn från Hummeln strukturen. Carl Alwmark och kollegor presenterar nya rön i tidskrifen Geology. Forskningen visar att sjön Hummeln i Småland har bildats genom ett meteoritnedslag för ca 470 miljoner år sedan. Läs mer..

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Published 2 August 2018 Great reed warbler (Photo: August Thomasson) A unique study from Lund University in Sweden has discovered for the first time that there is a genetic sexual conflict in the immune system in animals. In females, the variation in central genes of the immune system is too high, whereas in males, it is too low. The researchers argue that the conflict is linked to differences in

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Published 6 August 2018 The red-backed shrike (Photo: Thomas Alerstam) A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that small birds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as high as 4 000 metres above sea level - probably adjusting their flight to take advantage of favourable winds and different wind layers. This is the first time that researchers have tracked how

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Published 7 August 2018 Martin Salö Children with allergies have a lower risk of developing complicated appendicitis, according to a new study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden. The findings, now published in JAMA Pediatrics, could pave the way for new diagnostic tools in the future. “In a study of all the children who underwent surgery for appendicitis in Lund, Sweden,

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Published 13 August 2018 Researchers have mapped how the body’s own peptides (here in orange/yellow) bind to a receptor complex to suppress infection/inflammation. (Image: Suppl Fig 12 Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05242-0) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, have in collaboration with colleagues in Copenhagen and Singapore, mapped how the body’s own peptides act to reduce

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Published 15 August 2018 The cytoskeleton (in green) in a tumour cell. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a cytoskeleton which provides the structure for mitochondria, the cell’s energy producers. The skeleton is necessary for the function of the mitochondria, but the researchers also found that cancer cells utilise the skeleton to maintain their cellular respiratory ability

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Published 17 August 2018 (Image: Gunnar Menander) Do you eat a lot of chicken, pasta, cheese and oils? Or do you prefer yogurt and cereal, but stay away from coffee and meat? A unique population study from Lund University in Sweden has identified different food patterns - and found that some are healthier than others. The study did not look at specific foods and their effects, but rather at how di

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Published 21 August 2018 Johan Jakobsson's research group is interested in how gene expression is regulated in the brain and how the process affects, for example, neurodegenerative diseases. They do this by studying miRNA's role in gene regulation (Illustration: Bengt Mattsson) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a direct link between the protein aggregation in nerve cells tha

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Published 22 August 2018 The Vice-Chancellor and Australia’s Ambassador Jonathan Kenna sign the handover (photo: Jonas Andersson)Photo: Jonas Andersson Today, Lund University handed over the remains of an Aboriginal man to representatives of the Australian government’s Indigenous Repatriation Programme. The event in Lund was attended by Australia’s Ambassador Jonathan Kenna. A solemn ceremony was

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Published 22 August 2018 Astrocytes grown from embryonic stem cells (Photo: Isaac Canals) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a faster method to generate functional brain cells, called astrocytes, from embryonic stem cells. Astrocytes play a significant role in neurodegenerative diseases. The new method reduces the time required to produce the cells from months to two weeks, an

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Published 29 August 2018 Harris’s hawk (Photo: Simon Potier) In many cases it is the colour of the prey that helps predatory birds to detect, pursue and capture them. In a new study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden show that the Harris’s hawk has the best colour vision of all animals investigated to date – and in certain situations, even better than humans. The findings may help to protect

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Published 3 September 2018 Cognitive scientists at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated that experimentally induced changes in political attitudes can last over time. Notably, participants’ who verbally motivated these ”false attitudes” exhibited the largest changes. This is the first time a lasting effect of the choice blindness phenomenon has been observed. In th

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Published 7 September 2018 Bacteriophages inject their DNA into bacteria (Image: Alex Evilevitch och Ting Liu) The way viruses inject their genome in cells affects the course of infection. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Illinois, USA, have shown that viruses that infect bacteria attack either in a synchronised or random fashion when injecting their DNA – something th

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Published 10 September 2018 Creative commons/Milestoned Up to now, researchers have believed that birds stay at home and altruistically help raise younger siblings because this is the only way to pass on genes when you cannot breed yourself. But this idea is only partially true. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds benefit from being helpful because it also increases their c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-help-each-other-partly-selfish-reasons - 2025-02-03

Published 10 September 2018 Elias Kristensson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Why do proton collisions resemble the early universe? Will we see X-ray imaging of the connections between neurons in brain tissue one day? Can lung tissue be 3D bioprinted to help patients in need of a lung transplant? And what can you film in in less than 0.000000000001 seconds? Four promising researchers at Lund University have

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Published 11 September 2018 Jonas Eberhard, Associate Professor of General Psychiatry at Lund University and editor-in-chief of Digital Psychiatry In recent years, an increasing number of research articles have been published based on, and closely related to, digital psychiatry. The volume is now so great that it is time to gather these publications in a separate scientific journal fully dedicated

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