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Published 10 December 2018 Lund University (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Porto University (Portugal), Szeged University (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have decided to join forces to create a pilot project of a European University, an “Alliance for Global Health,” committed to higher education in global health and well-being challenges at the heart of European v
Published 12 December 2018 Adult male blue tit (Photo: Andreas Nord) Heatwaves similar to those experienced in Europe in 2018 can have a very negative impact on animals. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that overheated birds have smaller offspring, and that those that are born may have lower chances of survival. Researchers were already aware that animals living in very warm region
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-heatwave-summers-will-affect-animals - 2025-05-11
Published 13 December 2018 Image: Creative Commons/NIAID NK cells, or natural killer cells, play an important role in the body’s defences against cancer and various infections. Now, in a joint project, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, the University of Oxford and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm have mapped how the different steps of the maturation process of these supercells from blood
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/immune-systems-supercell-how-it-matures - 2025-05-11
Published 14 December 2018 The Swedish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Gebel el Silsila, Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson and John Ward from Lund University, has discovered an intact pharaonic chamber tomb – the first at the site, and a rare discovery in Egypt. The five-meter-deep shaft tomb has already unearthed the remains of 50 adults and 25 children, despite the fact that the archaeologists
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intact-mass-grave-discovered-ancient-egyptian-site - 2025-05-11
Published 19 December 2018 Photo: Inger Ekström There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens to plastic i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles-study-finds - 2025-05-11
Published 20 December 2018 A hummingbird hawkmoth (Photo: Michael Pfaff) All insects use vision to control their position in the air when they fly, but they also integrate information from other senses. Biologists at Lund University have now shown how hawkmoths use mechanosensors in their antennae to control fast flight manoeuvres. When the moths need to rapidly change direction and manoeuvre, for
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/antennal-sensors-allow-hawkmoths-make-quick-moves - 2025-05-11
Published 10 January 2019 Stanley Micklavzina Lund University in Sweden has two new honorary doctors in science. One is an entertaining and creative circus artist in the subject of physics. The other is a chemistry professor who is passionate about providing students with an early link to qualified research. The Faculty of Science at Lund University has now announced its honorary doctors for 2019.
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-science-lund-university - 2025-05-11
Published 14 January 2019 Marianne Bertrand Professor Marianne Bertrand at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the first recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Bertrand will receive the prize and hold a lecture on 12 March in Lund, Sweden. “Marianne Bertrand is one of the world’s most prominent applied micro-economists,” says Fredrik An
Published 15 January 2019 Ping Wang (Photo: Theo Hagman-Rogowski) A new, fossil-free bioplastic is emerging. According to lab experiments, it is more durable than both regular plastic and other bioplastics, and is potentially better suited for recycling. Almost all plastic is made from crude oil, and plastic production currently accounts for 4-6% of global oil consumption. The development of renew
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-bioplastic-derived-poo-molecule - 2025-05-11
Published 16 March 2018 Håkan Holm (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2025-05-11
Published 19 March 2018 Fish bones (Photo: Blekinge Museum) New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet - you should quite simply eat a lot of fish. Osteologists Adam Boethius and Torbjörn Ahlström
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-accounted-surprisingly-large-part-stone-age-diet - 2025-05-11
Published 19 March 2018 Jens Schouenborg, Bengt Ljungquist and Martin Garwicz Recent developments in neuroscience set high requirements for sophisticated data management, not least when implantable Brain Machine Interfaces are used to establish electronic communication between the brain’s nerve cells and computers. A new method developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden makes it possibl
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-manages-and-stores-data-millions-nerve-cells-real-time - 2025-05-11
Published 22 March 2018 Elia Psouni A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that even children with limited physical disabilities are at risk of developing mental issues later in life. Girls and adolescents from socio-economically vulnerable families are at greatest risk. The study was published in the reputable journal PLOS ONE. With the help of national register data, Lund researchers c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-physical-disabilities-are-higher-risk-poor-mental-health - 2025-05-11
Published 22 March 2018 Ostrich chick (Photo: Elin Videvall) In her upcoming thesis at Lund University in Sweden, biologist Elin Videvall shows that the composition of gut bacteria in birds has a major impact on whether their offspring will survive their first three months. “My findings could be important for increasing survival rates”, she says. Microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gut-bacteria-can-mean-life-or-death-birds - 2025-05-11
Published 26 March 2018 The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) Photo: Erik Svensson In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species survives or dies out locally. One possible consequence according to the researchers, is that although conservation initiatives can save endangered species, sometimes chance can override such efforts.
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/chance-factor-survival-species - 2025-05-11
Published 3 April 2018 Rick Kapur (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) Today, transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is the leading cause of death following a blood transfusion. So far, it has not been treatable, but a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, Rick Kapur, has now discovered that an anti-inflammatory drug cures the disease in mice. For his achievement, he is awarded the International Soci
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-dangerous-blood-transfusion-related-disease - 2025-05-11
Published 4 April 2018 Photo: Fredrik Andreasson Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now show that nestlings pay a high price for regulating their body temperature: they grow less. Therefore, the recommendation when putting up a nest box should be to avoid hot, south-
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avoid-south-facing-birdhouses-nestlings-sake - 2025-05-11
Published 6 April 2018 Zebra finches (Photo: Atticus Pinzón-Rodríguez) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made a key discovery about the internal magnetic compass of birds. Biologists have identified a single protein without which birds probably would not be able to orient themselves using the Earth’s magnetic field. The receptors that sense the Earth’s magnetic field are probably locat
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-birds-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field - 2025-05-11
Published 6 April 2018 Sown flower strips of clover (Photo: Maj Rundlöf) Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assumed to ben
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2025-05-11
Published 6 April 2018 High-resolution electron microscopy images illustrate significant differences in cell size between a normal (left) and PUS7-deficient (PUS7-KO, right) human embryonic stem cell. Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function – and defective regulation of protein production is common in certain types of aggressive
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-vital-keeping-blood-stem-cells-functional-uncovered - 2025-05-11
