Published 4 June 2021 The middle spotted woodpecker has disappeared from Sweden, while the European fire-bellied toad has been reintroduced. (Photos: Wikimedia Commons) Researchers in Lund, Copenhagen and Norwich have shown that harmful mutations present in the DNA play an important – yet neglected – role in the conservation and translocation programs of threatened species. “Many species are threa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/genomics-informed-decisions-can-help-save-species-extinction - 2025-07-07

Published 27 August 2013 Remember the periodic table from chemistry class in school? Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have presented fresh evidence that confirms the existence of a previously unknown chemical element. The new, super-heavy element has yet to be named. An international team of researchers, led by physicists from Lund University, have confirmed the existence of what is cons

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/existence-new-element-confirmed - 2025-07-07

Published 8 June 2021 Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz dissolved almost ten tonnes of sedimentary rocks from ancient seabeds. (Photo: Johan Joelsson) For the first time, a unique study conducted at Lund University in Sweden has tracked the meteorite flux to Earth over the past 500 million years. Contrary to current theories, researchers have determined that major collisions in the asteroid belt

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-07-07

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 9 June 2021 Since April 2020, volunteer participants 18 years and older who reside in Sweden have been eligible to report daily their health status in the free app. Photo: iStockphoto During the pandemic, the free COVID Symptom Study app has helped researchers understand the complexity and spread of the corona virus

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-tracks-spread-covid-19-sweden - 2025-07-07

Published 9 June 2021 Lund University has been ranked 87th in the world, climbing 10 spots in the QS World University Rankings 2022. This makes Lund the top ranked university in Sweden, and one of two Swedish universities currently in the top 100. QS evaluates just over 1,600 of the world's universities and ranks 1,300 of them. In total, there are about 26,000 universities in the world. Lund Unive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-global-top-100-ranking - 2025-07-07

Published 14 June 2021 Photo: Ragnhild Haarstad, Stockholm City Museum Universal school lunch programs make students healthier, and increase their lifetime income by 3%, according to a unique study from Lund University in Sweden published in The Review of Economic Studies. Health disparities arise early in life and play a major role in economic outcomes among adults. Yet there are few studies on t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/free-and-nutritious-school-lunches-help-create-richer-and-healthier-adults - 2025-07-07

Published 15 June 2021 Photo: Mostphotos An international group of clinicians and scientists from MIT and Lund University, among others, have analysed how individual genetic changes affect the heart muscle. The researchers have created a new computer tool that could help tailor treatments for heart patients with inherited heart disease. The study is published in NPJ Genomic Medicine. (TEXT: Agata

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/computer-method-help-predict-outcomes-heart-patients - 2025-07-07

Published 16 June 2021 The results were presented at a press conference in Lund Since 2005, the guidelines for the care of unconscious cardiac arrest patients have been to cool the body temperature down to 33 degrees Celsius. A large, randomised clinical trial led by Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden has shown that this treatment does not improve survival. The study is published in the Ne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/induced-hypothermia-after-cardiac-arrest-did-not-improve-survival - 2025-07-07

Published 21 June 2021 Three research projects involving a total of 10 postdocs received a total of SEK 23.5 million in the first round of Lund University’s research programme for excellence, focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable development. In March this year, Lund University announced SEK100 million in funding for a research programme for excellence,focusing on Agenda 2030 and sustainable dev

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ten-postdocs-kick-excellence-programme-sustainable-development - 2025-07-07

Published 28 June 2021 “It’s 2050. Selma is dead. But before she is buried, she wants to talk to a person from 2021 and show them how, in Malmö, everything is possible. That person is you.” That is the dramatic beginning of a climate soundwalk that gives the listener the opportunity to imagine how Malmö, Sweden, might be affected by climate change over the coming 30 years. The project is a collabo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/soundwalk-future-imagines-climate-transition - 2025-07-07

Published 1 July 2021 A great snipe in Jämtland, Sweden (Photo: Åke Lindström) Extreme differences in flight altitude between day and night may have been an undetected pattern amongst migratory birds – until now. The observation was made by researchers at Lund University in Sweden in a study of great snipes, where they also measured a new altitude record for migratory birds, irrespective of the sp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/astonishing-altitude-changes-marathon-flights-migratory-birds - 2025-07-07

Published 1 July 2021 The image to the far left is from sputum prior to treatment with the DNase drug. The one in the middle was taken 3.5 days after treatment, and the one to the far right was taken the day the patient was discharged. When researchers at Lund University in Sweden performed advanced analyses of sputum from the airways of severely ill Covid-19 patients, they found high levels of ne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/drug-dissolved-net-structures-airways-severely-ill-covid-19-patients - 2025-07-07

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 6 July 2021 Cryo-EM generated image of an antibiotic resistance factor (pink) protecting the protein factory, the ribosome, (white/grey). he reistance factor pushes its "arm" into the ribosome to remove the drug. Image credit: Hauryliuk-Atkinson lab To counter the effects of antibiotics, bacteria constantly evolve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winning-microscopy-technique-uncovers-mechanisms-bacterial-antibiotics-resistance - 2025-07-07

By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 6 July 2021 Researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre are studying whether different subgroups of diabetes need different treatment. Photo: Kennet Ruona Newborn babies are already being screened for mutations and genetic tests help families with hereditary breast cancer. Genomic-driven precision medicine (GDPM) is an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/precision-medicine-emerging-approach-complex-diseases - 2025-07-07

Published 29 July 2021 A nocturnal dung beetle climbing atop its dung ball to survey the stars before starting to roll (Photo: Chris Collingridge) For the first time, researchers have been able to prove that city lights limit the ability of nocturnal animals to navigate by natural light in the night sky. Instead, they are forced to use streetlamps, neon light or floodlights to orient themselves. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/artificial-light-disrupts-dung-beetles-sense-direction - 2025-07-07

Published 12 August 2021 Photo: Anton Starikov, Mostphotos Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-07-07

Published 16 August 2021 Arrival Days are taking place today and tomorrow. Lund University expects around 2 000 international students this autumn. (Photo: Nga Nguyen) The Arrival Days for international students who are to begin their studies at Lund University in the autumn of 2021 are Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 August. All the events during the reception days and introductory weeks have been adapt

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-arrival-days-lus-incoming-international-students - 2025-07-07

Published 18 August 2021 Photo: Mostphotos An experimental study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that the Alzheimer’s protein amyloid-beta accumulates inside nerve cells, and that the misfolded protein may then spread from cell to cell via nerve fibres. This happens at an earlier stage than the formation of amyloid-beta plaques in the brain, something that is associated with the progre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/does-alzheimers-disease-start-inside-nerve-cells - 2025-07-07

Published 19 August 2021 Sverker Sikström (Photo: Kennet Ruona) People have a hard time grasping the potential severity of psychological abuse and women's violence against men, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The research reveals discrepancies in how victims – in contrast to the rest of society - evaluate different types of violence. ”Our study could have implications for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/these-two-types-abuse-are-often-taken-less-seriously - 2025-07-07

By fritzliselotte [at] gmail [dot] com (Liselotte Fritz) - published 24 August 2021 In a new study, researchers at Lund University and Uppsala University have seen a clear connection between how long a person sleeps and a number of biomarkers linked to cardiometabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. “With greater knowledge of the actual mechanisms of disease developmen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hours-you-sleep-mean-more-you-think - 2025-07-07