Published 10 January 2024 Ganna Petruk and Artur Schmidtchen, two of the reserchers behind the study of a new treatment strategy for severe bacterial infections. Photo: Tove Smeds. The development of a new treatment strategy for bacterial infections and sepsis is being led by researchers at Lund University. In a study the researchers demonstrate how they, by mimicking a substance naturally present

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/step-closer-treatment-severe-bacterial-infections-and-sepsis - 2025-02-02

Published 15 January 2024 A selection of Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz's art, created during her time in the Ravensbrück camp. An upcoming book featuring reproductions of artworks from the Ravensbrück concentration camp tells the story of the horrific reality its female inmates had to endure. The book has been published entirely thanks to private donations.  In spring 1945, around seven thousand women

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/donations-help-highlight-ravensbruck-art - 2025-02-02

Published 31 January 2024 Photo: Kennet Ruona During a French state visit to Sweden, President Emmanuel Macron visited Lund University on Wednesday, where he spoke directly with students at Studentafton. The President addressed challenges, possibilities and the future of the European cooperation. It was a long wait for vice-Chancellor Erik Renström and the audience inside the main University build

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/french-president-emmanuel-macron-visits-lund-university - 2025-02-02

Published 8 February 2024 The Porsmose man from the Neolithic period, killed by two arrows with bone tips (Photo: National Museum of Denmark) Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden, among others. The results, which are contrary to prevai

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scandinavias-first-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-gatherer-population - 2025-02-02

Published 15 February 2024 Illustration: DALL-E Our brains are "programmed" to learn more from people we like – and less from those we dislike. This has been shown by researchers in cognitive neuroscience in a series of experiments. Memory serves a vital function, enabling us to learn from new experiences and update existing knowledge. We learn both from individual experiences and from connecting

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brain-programmed-learning-people-we - 2025-02-02

Published 16 February 2024 "What we've made in our lab is much better than what can be found in stores today", Karolina Östbring and Jeanette Purhagen say (Photo: Hilde Skar-Olsen) Vegan food is often sidestepped due to its rubbery consistency. Food technology researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now developed a way to make vegan food more appetising by using new combinations of raw mater

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-manufacturing-method-produces-more-appealing-vegan-meat - 2025-02-02

Published 23 February 2024 Lina Eklund is one of the researchers in the international team working to analyse satellite images of the destruction of Gaza. Physical geographer Lina Eklund is tracking the destruction of Gaza week by week using satellite images. Her analyses could be significant if, once the fighting between Israel and Hamas is over, questions of possible war crimes are raised at the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/destruction-gaza-monitored-space - 2025-02-02

Published 26 February 2024 Photo: Mostphotos Recommendations from the WHO on limiting screen time for children under the age of five are almost impossible to follow, and risk causing unnecessary anxiety and stigmatisation of parents of young children. This according to a study from Lund University in Sweden on the digital media habits of young children. Instead, the researchers recommend that pare

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/recommendations-young-childrens-screen-time-do-more-harm-good - 2025-02-02

Published 27 February 2024 Rock formations with basalt Léa Lévy, researcher in engineering geology at Lund University, is receiving SEK 5.1 million from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation to investigate how much hope can be placed in capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and storing it in the rock basalt. Can you tell us a bit about your project, what you are researching?“More

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/will-carbon-capture-stored-basalt-be-climate-savior - 2025-02-02

Published 1 March 2024 Part of the simulated universe. In the center, a galaxy is born through gas that later transforms into stars. The whole process takes billions of years but is simulated in just a few months by supercomputers (Photo: The AGORA Collaboration) Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. Bu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2025-02-02

Published 6 March 2024 Edvin Bågenholm-Ruuth At present, viscose textiles are made of biomass from the forest, and there is no such thing as fully recycled viscose. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now succeeded in making new viscose – from worn-out cotton sheets. Old textiles around the world end up at the rubbish tip and are often burned. In Sweden, they are generally burned to prod

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/completely-recycled-viscose-first-time - 2025-02-02

Published 20 March 2024 Photo: Arne Trautmann/Mostphotos Many of us know that Finland is steadily ranked as the happiest country in the world. The basis for this is the annual World Happiness Report, which is based on a simple question about happiness asked to people around the world. However, a new study led by Lund University in Sweden suggests that it makes people think more about power and wea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-happiness-report-why-we-might-be-measuring-happiness-wrong - 2025-02-02

Published 26 March 2024 Marie Dacke, Mia Liinason, Heiner Linke, Martin Dribe, Tobias Uller, Vanya Darakchieva and Oksana Mont are the new Wallenberg Scholars Twelve researchers at Lund University have been appointed Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation that supports excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, technology and the natural sciences.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-wallenberg-scholars-are-announced - 2025-02-02

Published 12 April 2024 The large-eyed bristle worm Vanadis has long been of interest to the world’s vision researchers. But the worm has been difficult to study since it lives in the open sea and is active at night. Now, a research team has succeeded in locating an Italian worm colony and is able to confirm that the worm has completely unique vision. Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/marine-worm-outstanding-vision-fascinates-researchers - 2025-02-02

Published 15 April 2024 Photo: Anna-Britta Magnusson/Mostphotos The strong connection between financial problems and mental health issues is well known. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that only one in five young adults could correctly answer three basic questions about inflation, interest rates and risk diversification. At the same time, they are getting more into debt. This, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alarmingly-low-financial-awareness-among-todays-youth - 2025-02-02

Published 17 April 2024 The team during field work in northern Sweden (Photo: Geerte Fälthammar-de Jong) During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The boreal forests form a single biome that sp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-field-study-shows-how-climate-change-affects-fire-impacted-forests - 2025-02-02

Published 18 April 2024 Lund researchers Thomas Pugh and Raimund Muscheler have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant. Photo: Private/Kenneth Ruona Quaternary geologist Raimund Muscheler and physical geographer Thomas Pugh have been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. They will receive EUR 2.5 million each over a five-year period to study historical solar storms and the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lund-researchers-receive-prestigious-eu-grant - 2025-02-02

Published 29 April 2024 The Hulk-like lizard (Photo: Javier Abalos) Body shape, colour and behaviour often evolve together as species adapt to their environment. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have studied this phenomenon in a specific type of large, bright green and aggressive common wall lizard found near the Mediterranean. They discovered that a unique cell type might have played a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/incredible-hulk-lizard-provides-clues-understanding-evolution - 2025-02-02

Published 6 May 2024 Photo from stem cell transplantation at Skåne University Hospital. Source: Skåne University Hospital. Higher dose cohort initiated after positive early safety evaluation in Parkinson's therapy. After a positive initial safety evaluation, the pioneering STEM-PD clinical trial has advanced to higher dose testing.
STEM-PD is a first-in-human clinical trial testing a new investiga

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/update-stem-pd-clinical-trial-stem-cell-based-transplant-parkinsons-disease - 2025-02-02

Published 14 May 2024 Photo: Emma Kritzberg Climate researchers often emphasise the fact that reducing carbon emissions is in everyone’s best interest, and should involve all of us. But how good are they at minimising their own carbon footprint? A new study carried out jointly by Lund University in Sweden and the University of Lausanne in Switzerland shows that some of them use up half their annua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conferences-make-scientists-climate-transgressors - 2025-02-02