Published 22 June 2015 Photo: Kennet Ruona Today the Financial Times presented its ranking of the world’s best Master’s degree programmes in finance. Lund University School of Economics and Management is ranked 38th in the world, having been featured for the first time on the list this year. When the Financial Times presented its annual ranking of the world’s best Master’s degree programmes on Mon

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Published 25 June 2015 Photo: Kennet Ruona New research from Lund University in Sweden questions the prevailing doctrine on how the brain absorbs and processes information. The idea that the brain has a mechanism to maintain activity at the lowest possible level is incorrect. What happens in the brain when we think and which components make up a thought? Researchers in Lund have taken a major step

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Published 30 June 2015 Need some tips for your summer reading list? Kerstin Bergman, a researcher in comparative literature at Lund University, discusses why Scandinavian crime fiction has become such a global success, and recommends a few Swedish authors for this summer. WATCH VIDEO: Summer reading tips and what makes the genre so appealing Kerstin Bergman is a crime fiction scholar, a literary c

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Published 12 July 2015 Image by Apelöga Plants and bacteria make use of sunlight with remarkably high efficiency: nine out of ten absorbed light particles are being put to use in an ordinary bacterium. For years it has been a pressing question of modern research whether or not effects from quantum physics are responsible for this outstanding performance of natural light harvesters. A team of Europ

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Published 14 July 2015 Olle Melander and Mattias Belting A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that women with low levels of an anti-stress hormone have an increased risk of getting breast cancer. The study is the first of its kind on humans and confirms previous similar observations from animal experiments. The recent findings on a potential new marker for the risk of developing breast

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Published 30 July 2015 Kajsa Järvholm Teenagers suffering from severe obesity generally feel worse than their peers, but after undergoing gastric bypass nearly all experience improved mental health. One in five, however, still suffers from symptoms of depression – some quite seriously. These are the results of a new study from Lund University in Sweden, published in Obesity. The study is the large

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Published 6 August 2015 Mari Ekman,Karl Swärd, Nikolay Oskolkov, Catarina Rippe and Rebecka Grantinge Lack of microinvaginations in the cell membrane, caveolae, can cause serious diseases such as lipodystrophy and muscular dystrophy. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a “main switch” that regulates the formation of these invaginations. Many cells in the body are equipped

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Published 12 August 2015 Kent Ngo, one of the Lund University students who founded FoPo Food Powder, talks about the product and how their studies have helped them launch their own business. WATCH: Interview with FoPo founder Kent Ngo

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Published 20 August 2015 Niclas Burenhult Linguist Niclas Burenhult has been awarded close to SEK 14 million by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for his field project Language as key to perceptual diversity: an interdisciplinary approach to the senses. “We like to believe that everyone perceives the world in the same way. But studying small and lesser-known languages and cultures reveals an incredible di

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Published 27 August 2015 Carl Borrebaeck (Photo: Kennet Ruona) An antibody that did not fulfil its purpose against the disease multiple sclerosis, MS, instead made its big break in cancer research and is now starring in southern Sweden’s largest licensing agreement in Life Science history. The “father” of the antibody is Professor Carl Borrebaeck. It is one of the windiest days in late summer, and

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Published 28 August 2015 Photo: Johannes Rousk Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, and USA have shown that our understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. This means that climate models that include microorganisms to estimate future climate change must be reconsidered. When a plant dies, its leaves and branches fall to the ground. Decompo

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Published 28 August 2015 Photo: Leif Jansson The Max IV facility, set to become the brightest x-ray source in the world, and the world’s first ‘fourth generation’ particle accelerator, has reached a major milestone. The accelerator group has now succeeded in directing the electron beam all the way around the large 3 GeV ring for the first time. “This is of course fantastically exciting and satisfy

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Published 8 September 2015 Image of an electron microscope showing how the white blood cells, neutrophils (PMN), throw NETs in the pancreas in mice Researchers at Lund University in Sweden may have discovered one of the keys to understanding how the body develops acute pancreatitis. The results offer hope for the development of drugs that specifically target the disease. Within gastro research it

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Published 11 September 2015 Photo: Damian Moran Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown that well-developed eyes come at a surprising cost to other organ systems. The study involving Mexican cavefish shows that the visual system can require between 5% and 15% of an animal’s total energy budget. Researchers have long associated the presence of a well-developed brain with major energy

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Published 15 September 2015 Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and the 70th best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2015/16 that was released today. With 17,000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s univer

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 28 March 2024 Clearcutting is often considered negative for biodiversity, which is why continuous cover forestry is seen as a more favourable alternative. But could it be that clearcutting - with proper management from a landscape perspective - could favour certain species? Recently, it has become increasingly common to find b

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 3 April 2024 BECC regularly welcomes guest researchers to work in areas within its scientific framework, with the aim to further strengthen the research and research groups. Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein is head of the Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, who recently f

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By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 17 April 2024 Lundaforskarna Thomas Pugh och Raimund Muscheler från den naturvetenskapliga fakulteten får ERC Advanced Grant. Foto: Privat/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 rec

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Published 23 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, and partly financed by BECC, has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. The boreal forests form a

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By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 21 May 2024 It is here! Our annual report 2022/2023 and the first of its kind for BECC. We have aimed for a report that is interesting and inspiring to read, with a mix of highlights from our research, our activities, BECC outreach, colorful images and important numbers.The report is available in two formats:On the website: BE

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