Published 3 April 2019 Daniel Conley and Anders Rantzer Two researchers at Lund University in Sweden have been awarded almost EUR 5 million in total from the European Research Council. One of the research projects focuses on the early growth of diatoms in the ocean 250 million years ago, and the subsequent global effects of the algae growth. The other grant will go towards research on the automati

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-researchers-awarded-prestigious-erc-grants - 2025-05-11

Published 5 April 2019 This planetary fragment is orbiting around the white dwarf among the debris from the earlier solar system. The image is an artistic impression. Illustration: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the remnants of a planet orbiting a dead star in a disc of debris formed from destroyed planets. The planetary fragment could offer clues

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/remains-planet-found-orbiting-dead-star - 2025-05-11

Published 10 April 2019 Photo: Tirthankar Mohanty With the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance, there is a growing need for new treatment strategies against life threatening bacterial infections. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen may have identified such an alternative treatment for bacterial meningitis, a serious infection that can lead to sepsis. Th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-non-antibiotic-strategy-treatment-bacterial-meningitis - 2025-05-11

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 11 April 2019 Living in a community with access to clean water and functioning sanitation is a basic requirement for people’s good health. In Kazakhstan in Central Asia, people cannot depend on a reliable water supply and many are at risk of contracting serious infectious diseases. However, the country now wants to focus on im

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/access-clean-water-not-option-everyone-lund-researchers-are-helping-rural-areas-kazakhstan - 2025-05-11

By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 11 April 2019 One cannot come up with anything fundamentally new if one focuses only on optimizing what is already consolidated and developed, says Heiner Linke, professor of nanophysics and director of NanoLund. Photo: Kennet Ruona The energy sector is one of the sectors that need to undergo both rapid and far-reaching transf

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-make-solar-energy-more-efficient - 2025-05-11

By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 11 April 2019 The forest trees can be refined into many other products that are now made of oil. But how big is the environmental impact? Photo: Shutterstock Living forests with diverse plants and animals, forests where you can hike, hunt or pick berries and mushrooms – will they still be there when the pressure on forestry pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/forest-under-strain-many-directions - 2025-05-11

Published 11 April 2019 A team of former Lund University students have developed a smart plant wall, that can be monitored via an app and therefore minimizes the amount of maintenance needed. The smart wall measures things like indoor temperature, humidity and water levels to make sure the plants are thriving - and therefore improving the indoor environment. Erik Wilson, a Lund University Master’s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-lund-university-students-develop-smart-living-plant-wall - 2025-05-11

By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 April 2019 More knowledge of how the climate affects agriculture and vice versa can provide important input into political decisions and legal frameworks, say the researchers in Lund. Photo: Shutterstock Currently, it can take weeks and even months to produce results on how the future climate could affect agriculture. Now,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-much-land-do-we-need-produce-enough-food-bioenergy-and-forest-new-digital-technology-provides - 2025-05-11

Published 12 April 2019 Madeleine Liljegren Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have together with American colleagues studied deceased patients who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia. They observed a correlation between certain proteins and dementia sufferers’ tendency to commit criminal acts. “This study is unique in that we studied deceased patients, somethi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/abnormal-proteins-correlate-criminal-behaviour-dementia - 2025-05-11

Published 17 April 2019 Salma Kikhia, a student at Master’s Program in Public Health at Lund University, will be awarded the title Global Swede at a ceremony at the Swedish Institute in May. Congratulations to Salma Kikhia, a student at the Master’s programme in Public Health at Lund University, who will be awarded the title Global Swede at a ceremony at the Swedish Institute in May. Salma Kikhia,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-named-global-swede-2019 - 2025-05-11

Published 23 April 2019 Niklas Mattsson (Photo: Björn Martinsson) A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration in the blood co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-evidence-blood-tests-can-detect-risk-alzheimers - 2025-05-11

Published 23 April 2019 Mats E. Eriksson Professor Mats E. Eriksson of Lund University in Sweden is now publishing his second book in the somewhat unusual subject combination of geological fossils and heavy metal music. Researching microscopic fossils and attempting to reconstruct several hundred million-year-old ecosystems is Mats E. Eriksson’s day job as a professor of geology at Lund University

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/geology-professor-releases-new-book-about-heavy-metal - 2025-05-11

Published 23 April 2019 Charlotte Ling and Tina Rönn (Photos: Stig-Åke Jönsson and Sara Liedholm) In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at Lund University have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review article published in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes - 2025-05-11

Published 23 April 2019 Charlotte Ling and Tina Rönn (Photos: Stig-Åke Jönsson and Sara Liedholm) In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at the Lund University Diabetes Centre have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review arti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes-review - 2025-05-11

Published 25 April 2019 Kajsa Paulsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 gene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-05-11

Published 25 April 2019 Feng Zhang and Malin Parmar (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund.   Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to introduce a moratorium on ge

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-05-11

Published 26 April 2019 Geeti Arora Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women. Gestational diabetes is characterized by impa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-05-11

Published 29 April 2019 Henrik Jörntell and Jonas Enander After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-05-11

Published 6 May 2019 Photo: Johan Persson The loss of animals, often due to unregulated or illegal hunting, has consequences for the carbon storage capacity of forests, yet this link is rarely mentioned in high-level climate policy discussions, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Many wildlife species play a key role in dispersing th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hunting-jeopardizes-forest-carbon-storage-yet-overlooked-climate-mitigation-efforts - 2025-05-11

Published 6 May 2019 The UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) global assessment on nature highlights that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Dr. Mine Islar, one of the lead athors of the report, and senior lecturer and researcher at Lund University, explains the significance of the report’s findings. Why i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lead-author-ipbes-global-assessment-loss-biodiversity-crucial-climate-change - 2025-05-11