https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/could-normal-water-prevent-diabetes-obesity-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-04-01

Published 31 March 2015 Earlier this spring, Jan Magnusson, senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, travelled to Nepal to make new contacts and explore possibilities of sending students on Minor Field Studies scholarships there. He also met with officials and teachers at Tribhuvan University, as he is helping the university develop their master’s programme in social work. The School of Socia

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Published 7 March 2023 Martin Magnusson, clinical WCMM fellow and adjunct professor in cardiovascular research Martin Magnusson received a 4.8 million VR project grant 2023-2026 for the project "Incretin system´s impact on cardiovascular disease and cancer" together with Joao Duarte and Anja Meissner. The aim of this study is to assess the long-term effects of incretin hormones GIP and GLP-1 on th

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellows-receive-vr-grant-2 - 2025-04-01

Published 6 November 2023 Photographer: Tove Smeds For Anders Wittrup, clinical WCMM researcher and oncologist, the choice of this year's Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, was quite expected. They recieved the prize for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 such

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/anders-wittrup-about-years-nobel-prize - 2025-04-01

Published 12 December 2019 Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a slowly progressing form of blood cancer that attacks the blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. The condition requires lifelong treatment that can cause severe side effects. Rebecca Warfvinge maps stem cells in patients in the hope of identifying predictive markers for how the patient will react to therapy. She has now received an aw

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/tailored-therapy-chronic-myeloid-leukaemia - 2025-04-01

By marie [dot] jonsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Marie Jönsson and Shamit Soneji) - published 2 November 2021 The virtual reality environment CellexalVR is built on gaming technology and allows single-cell data to be analysed in 3D using hand controllers, here demonstrated by the PhD student Mikael Sommarin. (Foto credit: Shamit Soneji) The Soneji lab has developed an open-source virtual reality

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/single-cell-analysis-enters-third-dimension - 2025-04-01

Published 25 May 2016 Rather than spreadable chocolate, future consumers will perhaps be spreading a bean-based paste on their toast. This is thanks to a group of innovative students in Food Technology at Lund University, who recently developed a bean paste called Le Cobean. Healthier, tastier and eco-friendly – these are some of the arguments supporting the bean-based spread. The students came up

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Published 20 March 2020 Lund University is following the Government and Public Health Authority’s recommendations regarding measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus and has therefore decided that education and examinations should be conducted using online alternatives (distance education) from 18 March. On this page we have gathered some useful information on how this affects opening hours

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/changes-and-information-due-covid-19-corona - 2025-04-01

Published 15 September 2022 Wild bees that ingest the neonicotinoid clothianidin when they feed from nectar of rapeseed flowers grown from clothianidin-coated seeds, become lethargic. In addition, strawberries pollinated by these bees become smaller. These are the results of a study conducted by three BECC researchers at Lund University. Wild and managed bees are important providers of pollination

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By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 7 May 2024 Three Uppsala University researchers are granted 750 SEK times two years, and Olga Titova is one of them. Her project aims to clarify whether and how sleep and psychosocial factors are linked to the risk of specific incident CVDs and to explore the potential mechanisms using proteomics and metabolomics data.

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/big-congrats-olga-titova - 2025-04-01

Published 22 September 2022 On 30 September, Heather Schoonover will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Business Models for Sustainable Consumption: Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Rental and Reuse of Home Furnishings." Heather's work focuses on business models that can facilitate sustainable consumption practices, primarily regarding rental and reuse of home furnishings and other consumer goo

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/upcoming-phd-thesis-defence-business-models-sustainable-consumption - 2025-04-01

Published 24 March 2017 The male stegodyphus bicolor is "the most beautiful spider in the world" according to Klaus Birkhofer. The photo is taken in Namibia. Photo: Klaus Birkhofer Spiders eat between 400 and 800 million tons of insects and springtails each year. In comparison, people worldwide eat 400 million tons of meat and fish per year. The enormous amount the spiders eat helps to regulate an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/spiders-eat-more-insects-people-eat-meat-and-fish - 2025-04-01

Published 1 September 2017 When fluids are handled on a micrometer scale (which is extremely small), they behave differently, which researchers can benefit from (Credit: Jason Beech / Tegenfeldt Group) It began with the inkjet printers in the 1950s but is now rapidly developing in the medical technology industry. It's about the art of controlling and influencing extremely narrow fluid flow, also k

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conference-faster-test-response-popular-and-flowing-technology - 2025-04-01

Published 5 June 2018 Over 50% of the global population lives in cities, and those cities all share the same pressing challenge: how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion in a sustainable way? One way of finding answers to that question is urban living labs, a type of testbed where social and technical innovations are tested in real time in an urban setting.“Urban living labs ar

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Published 26 August 2024 Anna France and David Gardner from Leeds University Business School. Photo: Maria Johansson “External engagement is at the centre of what happens at Leeds University Business School (LUBS), be it with partner companies, NGOs or alumni. It’s a bridge between these levels and the students, researchers and teachers at our school and a high priority of our’s”, says Anna France

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/leeds-comes-lund - 2025-04-01