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 - 2025-01-17

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 - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-house-ancient-pompeii-using-3d-technology - 2025-01-17

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 - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-scale-agriculture-threatens-rainforest - 2025-01-17

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 - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-could-300-year-old-murder-mystery-finally-be-solved - 2025-01-17

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 - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa-0 - 2025-01-17

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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-was-donald-trump-sniffling - 2025-01-17

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 - 2025-01-17

Published 20 October 2016 Warm relationship between students and teachers is linked to decreased bullying. Photo: I. Oggiono Warm and caring student-teacher relationships can be linked to students’ motivation to intervene in cases of bullying. Behind those who remain passive bystanders or accomplices to bullying there is often a conflict-filled situation between the student and the teacher. This h

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Published 25 October 2016 Research shows how stem cells are negatively affected by oxidation and rust. Photo: L. Harboe Oxygen in the air is well known to cause damaging rust on cars through a process known as oxidation. Similarly, a research group at Lund University in Sweden, has now identified that certain cells during embryonic development also are negatively affected by oxidation. This oxidat

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Published 28 October 2016 Common swift. Photo: N. Camilleri The common swift flies ten months on end without landing. The hypothesis on these birds’ life in the air was presented by British researcher Ron Lockley back in 1970, but it is only now that researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to prove the extreme lifestyle of the species. No other bird species remains in the air for as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-bird-can-stay-ten-months-air-without-landing - 2025-01-17

Published 29 October 2016 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The first transplantation of stem cells in patients with Parkinson's disease is almost within reach. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to control stem cells accurately in the lab in order to achieve successful and functional stem cell therapies for patients. - In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2025-01-17

Published 4 November 2016 Tuukka Ervasti/ imagebank.sweden.se What connection is there between food and drink with added sugar and coronary artery disease? Until recently, the question had been inadequately answered by research, but an extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has now contributed important clues. The study in question focuses on sucrose. Sucrose occurs naturally in fruit and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/association-between-sugary-diet-and-coronary-artery-disease - 2025-01-17