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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 with the idea for the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-masters-students-come-nutritious-chocolate-flavored-bean-spread - 2025-12-17

Through a computer-simulated study, astronomers at Lund University in Sweden show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This would make it the first exoplanet to be discovered inside our own solar system. The theory is that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet 9 from its original star. Watch video of how the new Planet 9 was stolen by our s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-theft-behind-planet-9-our-solar-system - 2025-12-17

It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive – most can be neutralised with radiation and chemotherapy. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that some cancer cells can accumulate fat droplets, which appear to make them more aggressive and increase their ability to spread. The interior of a cancer tumour is a hostile environment with oxygen defici

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cancer-cells-become-more-aggressive-fat-storage - 2025-12-17

In 2015, over one million people were forced to flee from war and persecution to seek asylum in Europe. More than 160,000 refugees, including over 70,000 children, applied for asylum in Sweden. To ensure that they receive a secure education and future in their new country, the Swedish school system needs to invest to develop the skills of school staff concerning reception. That is the standpoint o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-arranges-courses-school-staff-new-arrival-reception - 2025-12-17

Eight days. That's how long it takes for skin cells to reprogram into red blood cells. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, have successfully identified the four genetic keys that unlock the genetic code of skin cells and reprogram them to start producing red blood cells instead. "We have performed this experiment on mi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/genetic-code-red-blood-cells-discovered - 2025-12-17

Through a detailed study of leukaemia cells from more than 200 children, a research group at Lund University in Sweden has discovered two new types of childhood leukaemia. Using next-generation sequencing technology (NGS), the researchers were able to study the genome of cancer cells, which is how they discovered the new types of cancer. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is a rare disease, but the mos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-types-blood-cancer-discovered-children - 2025-12-17

Reducing energy imports and mitigating climate change are often portrayed as complementary. However, new research shows that while ambitious climate policies would lower energy imports, energy independence would not bring significant climate benefits. Originally published on IIASA web site Ambitious policies to reduce energy imports would have little impact on climate change, and these energy inde

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-independence-will-not-bring-enough-climate-benefits-study - 2025-12-17

Citizen journalism is often seen as more democratic form of journalism, where the public contributes to the reporting, analysis and dissemination of news. Sociologist and criminologist Agneta Mallén at Lund University in Sweden has studied the phenomenon and shown some of its downsides, including how it sometimes leads to outright cyber bullying. In recent years, citizen journalism has become a wi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-how-citizen-journalism-can-lead-cyber-bullying - 2025-12-17

During the week of Midsummer, Sweden will inaugurate its largest investment in research ever made – MAX IV Laboratory. “It has been a long process and it feels amazing that all the electrons and light are now working”, says Pro Vice-Chancellor Stacey Ristinmaa Sörensen, responsible for the University’s infrastructure and Professor of Synchrotron Radiation Physics. Originally published in Lund Univ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/getting-ready-inaugurate-swedens-largest-research-investment-max-iv - 2025-12-17

Geologist Birger Schmitz from Lund University in Sweden has found the fossil of an extinct meteorite that collided with Earth about 470 million years ago. The finding is the first of its kind and of a type of meteorite that no longer falls on Earth. The discovery, which could lead to new knowledge about our solar system, attracts attention both nationally and internationally. No one knows what the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extinct-meteorite-changes-our-understanding-solar-system - 2025-12-17

In her own words, Dean of the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts Solfrid Söderlind writes about the future of the Malmö Art Academy. In the last few days there has been an intense debate in the media about the Art Academy, which has been described as threatened with shut-down due to an eviction notice from the city of Malmö on its current premises. Lund University has been warned that the city ne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/current-and-future-premises-malmo-art-academy - 2025-12-17

For the first time ever, researchers have differentiated the risks of developing indolent or aggressive prostate cancer in men with a family history of the disease. Researchers from the Swedish universities of Lund, Uppsala and Umeå now present new and somewhat surprising results. It is a well-known fact that men with a family history of prostate cancer run an increased risk of developing the dise

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-concerning-hereditary-prostate-cancer - 2025-12-17

New research discoveries at Lund University in Sweden show that in almost any lighting conditions, colour vision is crucial for chickens – and probably other birds as well – in order to find good food that is ripe to eat and identify high quality partners to mate with. Watch short video from the experiment The researchers have established that chickens – just like people – have colour constancy. F

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-color-vision-helps-birds-find-good-food-and-right-partner - 2025-12-17

The Master’s programme in Finance at the Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) is ranked number 32 in the world in the Financial Times ranking of finance programmes that was released today. This is a climb from place 38 last year. “Our students simply seem to be very satisfied with where our programme has taken them professionally”, says Kristina Eneroth, Vice-Dean at LUSEM. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/school-economics-and-management-continues-climb-financial-times-ranking - 2025-12-17

We know that individuals who smoke take major health risks. Now a new research study from Lund University in Sweden shows that common treatment for breast cancer works less well in patients who smoke, compared to non-smokers. “Smokers who were treated with aromatase inhibitors had a three times higher risk of recurrence of breast cancer compared with the non-smokers who got the same treatment. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smoking-can-hamper-common-treatment-breast-cancer-0 - 2025-12-17

Birds of the species Parus Major (great tit) living in an urban environment are at greater risk of dying young than great tits living outside cities. Research results from Lund University in Sweden show that urban great tits have shorter telomeres than others of their own species living in rural areas. According to the researchers, the induced stress that the urban great tits are experiencing is w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/urban-bird-species-risk-dying-prematurely-due-stress - 2025-12-17

MAX IV – the most modern synchrotron radiation facility in the world – is now ready to open. Over 2,000 international researchers will use the Swedish-based laboratory each year to conduct groundbreaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the most brilliant X-ray light ever generated. The laboratory enables researchers to study atoms and molecules that are only a few tenths of a nano

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/max-iv-ready-make-invisible-visible - 2025-12-17

Traditionally, the evolutionary development of an insect species has been explained by the notion that the female insect chooses her male partner based on size and other factors, so-called assortative mating. These mating patterns have also been believed to partially explain how the isolation between different species is maintained. However, new research from Lund University in Sweden shows just t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-discoveries-evolution-can-save-endangered-species - 2025-12-17

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that the appetite hormone CART is regulated by glucose and is found in greater quantity in people with type 2 diabetes. “This could be the body’s own defence mechanism to lower blood sugar levels in case of type 2 diabetes”, says Associate Professor Nils Wierup, in charge of the study. The study shows that the appetite hormone CART not only

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/antidiabetic-effects-discovered-appetite-hormone-cart - 2025-12-17

For the first time, researchers from Lund University have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy, in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism. The result is a first step in research that could ultimately contribute to the development of technologies that use solar energy far more efficiently than what is currently possible. For about 80 years, researchers have kno

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-discoveries-about-photosynthesis-may-lead-solar-cells-future - 2025-12-17