Published 11 May 2023 New research in five EU countries reveals stakeholders’ views on what is needed to enable a shift towards 1.5° C-compatible lifestyles. Bans and taxes for unsustainable behaviour and outcomes, positive incentives for low-carbon attitudes, and better public funding for basic services, are seen as essential climate policies to overcome current barriers to action at the househol

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/sticks-and-carrots-what-should-governments-do-radical-lifestyle-change - 2025-01-15

By susanne [dot] sundell [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanne Sundell) - published 13 February 2024 There is now an opportunity for research leaders and other coworkers at the Faculty to participate in seminars on leadership. The series adresses issues that are facing research leaders in their daily work. The Faculty of Medicine has developed a seminar series for research leaders at the Faculty. Th

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/open-seminars-leadership-faculty - 2025-01-15

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 23 March 2021 Buff-tailed bumblebee. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Many species of bee are threatened by global warming, but not all. The buff-tailed bumblebee is the world’s most common bee and will likely remain that way, as researchers from Lund University have discovered that this species benefits from a warmer climat

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/warmer-climate-making-worlds-most-common-bumblebee-even-more-common - 2025-01-15

By susanna [dot] olsson [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Susanna Olsson) - published 15 March 2024 Over five years, the EU invests SEK 163 million in the POLARIN research project. The aim is to promote interdisciplinary research in both polar regions. Physical geographer Dr Margareta Johansson is one of the researchers who will work in the project. Why is this polar research project needed?- The ong

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/eu-lifts-polar-research-arctic-and-antarctica - 2025-01-15

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-scale-agriculture-threatens-rainforest - 2025-01-15

By viveca [dot] floden [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Medical Radiation Physics) - published 12 October 2022 19 oktober: LINXS Workshop Today, synchrotron techniques are rarely used in the later stages of biomedical drug development. An upcoming workshop, organized within the framework of a new theme at LINXS, Integrative Pharmacology and Drug Discovery, highlights the possibilities of developing new

https://www.msf-malmo.lu.se/article/biomedical-imaging-drug-discovery-development-opportunities-max-iv - 2025-01-15

Published 7 December 2009 Hyperglycemia starts a complex chain of events that damages blood vessels and cause cardiovascular disease. Scientists at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) have now been able to demonstrate why this happens, as well as how the destructive chain can be broken. This discovery represents a crucial step towards an efficient treatment of the vascular injuries that will be

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-mechanism-underlying-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-01-15

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https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-clues-hunt-heredity-type-2-diabetes - 2025-01-15

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/protein-block-stops-vascular-damage-diabetes - 2025-01-15

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-fat-cells-following-exercise - 2025-01-15

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-findings-gastric-bypass-and-diabetes - 2025-01-15

By sandra [dot] jakobsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Sandra Jakobsson) - published 6 September 2023 Maria Eriksson Baaz, Fredrik Söderbaum and Swati Parashar at NorDev 2023. The 7th Nordic Development Research Conference (NorDev) was held the 21-23 August in Uppsala. The title for the conference was “Co-creation for transition towards a sustainable society” and was organised by Uppsala Universit

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/maria-eriksson-baaz-it-important-raise-discussions-around-inequalities-and-colonial-heritage - 2025-01-15

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/altered-cell-behaviour-behind-resistance-neuroblastoma - 2025-01-15

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/novel-biomarker-technology-cancer-diagnostics - 2025-01-15

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Björn Nilsson) - published 27 January 2022 The Nilsson lab performed a genome-wide association study on 13,167 individuals, 18-78 years old, and identified previously unknown regulators of blood HSPC levels. Stem cell transplantation is a cornerstone in the treatment of blood malignancies. In order to succeed, stem cells need to

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/large-scale-genome-wide-association-study-reveals-new-potential-drug-target-blood-stem-cell - 2025-01-15

By Anders [dot] Martensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Mårtensson) - published 15 October 2014 Lund University Bioimaging Center (LBIC) is pleased to announce the opening of its new optical imaging platform, which hosts an advanced confocal microscope and a second super-resolution microscope utilising the STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscope (STORM) technology.  A third microscope d

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/new-optical-imaging-platform-lbic-available-all-researchers - 2025-01-15

Published 16 October 2014 Grazing camel in the Kordofan region in Sudan The need for food, animal feed and fuel in the Sahel belt is growing year on year, but supply is not increasing at the same rate. New figures from 22 countries indicate falling availability of resources per capita and a continued risk of famine in areas with low ‘primary production’ from plants. Rising temperatures present an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shrinking-resource-margins-sahel-region-africa - 2025-01-15

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/quantum-world-without-queues-could-lead-better-solar-cells - 2025-01-15

By hanna [dot] holm [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Holm) - published 1 February 2019 Professor Natascha Kljun and Station Manager Anders Båth in the Norunda forest. Photo: Irene Lehner. Growing forests can limit climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store the carbon in their biomass as they grow. How much carbon a forest stores varies between tree species, the fores

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/well-managed-forests-can-limit-climate-change - 2025-01-15