Published 22 May 2013 In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants to learn more about TCF7L2 by studying new ways of delaying

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2025-04-01

Published 2 April 2015 On February 24th and 25th, the kick-off meeting for the NordicESM project took place in Oslo. The aim of NordicESM is to enhance the collaboration on the field of Earth System modelling within the Nordic Countries. The project therefore involves all Nordic research groups working with the Earth System models NorESM and EC-Earth. Amongst other institutes in Europe, Lund Unive

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Published 7 November 2023 Photographer: Tove Smeds Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receives the award for his work on reprogramming blood cells and the development of immunotherapies based on this technology. It was a sheep that determined Filipe Pereira's c

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Published 18 March 2016 Homosexuality is as common in Uganda as in other countries shows anonymous surveys done in the country, now published in the journal PLOS. Photo: Torbak Hopper Uganda has one of the harshest standpoints on homosexuality in the world. Homosexual acts are prohibited by law and have previously been suggested to warrant the death penalty. However, a study from Lund University i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/homosexuality-common-uganda-other-countries - 2025-04-01

Published 22 March 2016 Emilie Krite Svanberg’s studies are carried out on full-term babies, but in the future she hopes that measurements taken with the technology that detects oxygen in the lungs could be used to monitor premature babies. Photo: MostPhotos Premature babies have a hard time getting the oxygen they need as their lungs are not sufficiently developed. Today you can only use X-rays t

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By kontakt [at] artrosportalen [dot] se (The arthritisportal) - published 1 July 2022 Gustavo is a mechanical engineer from Colombia. During his master's studies, Gustavo got the opportunity to conduct an internship in Lausanne, Switzerland. In Lausanne, he worked in orthopedics and studied the mechanical response of knee implants for total knee replacements using numerical modeling. When Gustavo

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Published 11 February 2015 We should not be afraid to joke about one another’s ethnic background. Used with sensitivity, such jokes can instead help to challenge the stereotypical image of immigrants, according to Lund University sociologist Henriette Frees Esholdt, who has studied humour at a multi-ethnic workplace in Denmark. Henriette Frees Esholdt’s study was carried out in a large organisatio

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/role-humour-multicultural-workplaces - 2025-04-01

Published 8 October 2015 Photo: IIIEE researcher Kes McCormick Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Getting the most out of Urban Living Labs A new trans-European project aims to better define and evaluate the concept of Urban Living Labs. One goal is to understand what can be shared and learned in order to advance urban sustainability transitions.Across Europe, so-called Urban Living L

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Published 26 June 2017 Minchao Wu The ongoing deforestation around the fringes of the Amazon may have serious consequences for the untouched deeper parts of the rainforest. A new research study shows that it is not only the climate that is adversely affected by deforestation. In fact, the very stability of the ecosystem in the entire Amazon region is altered when deforestation takes place in the o

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Published 14 December 2023 In order to achieve the 1.5-degree target set by the Paris Agreement, massive cuts in carbon emissions are needed. For the EU, this requires a reduction of household carbon footprints from 2015 of almost 70% by 2030 and over 90% by 2050. Too often, climate policies are not placed within a broader social context and policy makers neglect to see that welfare policies are v

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/eu-project-shows-welfare-policies-are-vital-climate-mitigation - 2025-04-01

Published 15 May 2024 A former student had heard that our senior lecturer in statistics, Pierre Carbonnier was about to retire after this semester. Would we do a feature on him? The student remembered him fondly and added that his mother had also had Pierre as a teacher and thought he was pretty awesome. Few, if any statistics teachers can claim to have reached and inspired more students than Pier

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/44-years-carbonnier-stats-dont-lie - 2025-04-01