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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new trend among the food-conscious is to adopt a gluten-free diet. However, according to LU researchers studying coeliac disease (gluten intolerance), the trend is not solely a good thing as it may blur the line between illness and health. “The fact that patients with coeliac disease now have more food products to c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2026-09-09

Amniotic fluid, the protective liquid surrounding an unborn baby, is discarded as medical waste during caesarean section deliveries. However, there is increasing evidence that this fluid is a source of valuable biological material, including stem cells with the potential for use in cell therapy and regenerative medicine. A team of scientists and clinicians at Lund University in Sweden have now dev

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/amniotic-fluid-rich-source-stem-cells-can-now-be-harvested - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have invented new systems to study the life of microorganisms in the ground. Without any digging, the researchers are able use microchips to see and analyse an invisible world that is filled with more species than any other ecosystem. Under our feet there is life and movement.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/life-under-surface-live-broadcast - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that the presence of death receptors in the blood can be used to directly measure the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. “We see that people with known risk factors such as high blood sugar and high blood fats also have heightened death r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/death-receptors-new-markers-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-09-09

New research aims to identify and characterise resistant lung cancer stem cells, and develop a model to customise drugs that can eradicate all cancer cells of an individual patient. This is the goal of researcher Mattias Magnusson, who received SEK 6 million from the Sjöberg Foundation to conduct this research project. Every year, close to 4 000 people in Sweden develop lung cancer. It is the fift

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/towards-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US, have investigated one such alternative. “We were able to show that a tai

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The social stigma surrounding HIV is still strong in many parts of the world. Children living with HIV in Ethiopia are at high risk of receiving inadequate treatment – or no treatment at all – on account of deeply rooted prejudice. The most considerable risk can be found among very small children, who do not receive p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/social-stigma-obstacle-successful-treatment-children-hiv-ethiopia - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show. In a new study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have found that birds use multiple – each one simple yet effective - methods to control their speed in the air and compensate for tailwind, headwind and sidewind. Last year

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flight-speed-birds-more-complex-previously-thought - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The impact of soil microbes on carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere; the transformation of knowledge as it moves between different contexts; zooming in on the Achilles’ tendon to a cellular and molecular level to discover how weight should be placed on a torn tendon in order for it to heal. These are the researc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-new-wallenberg-academy-fellows-lund-university - 2026-09-09

The Swedish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Gebel el Silsila, Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered four intact child burials at the site. The findings could provide important clues into family life at the ancient quarry. The burials further support the theory that there was a permanent community at the site, as opposed to a temporary workforce. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-intact-child-burials-found-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An astrophysicist who has developed new knowledge about cardiac function, a cardiovascular expert who stimulated research in general medicine, an internationally leading researcher in autoimmune diseases, and a neuroscientist who is deeply engaged in society: these are the new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medici

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine-2018 - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2026-09-09

Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a significant role in the development of the human brain as well as in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2026-09-09

The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers ,niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact. The archaeological mater

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A celestial body with a diameter of five kilometres crashed into the Earth’s surface, causing the formation of the so-called Siljan Ring in Dalarna, Sweden. The original impact crater was approximately 60 kilometres in diameter and the bedrock was covered by a layer of sediments 2.5 km thick when the projectile struck

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Children aged 9 are several times more sensitive to disruptive advertising than adults. This is shown by studies conducted at Lund University in Sweden, in which children’s eye movements were measured. Together with the Lund University Humanities Lab, media and communications researcher Nils Holmberg has developed a c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-are-disproportionately-affected-online-advertising - 2026-09-09

The Stem Cell Laboratory for CNS Disease Modeling (CSC Laboratory) in Lund, has created one of the largest iPSC biobanks from patients diagnosed with familial and idiopathic PD, and associated synucleionopathies. iPSCs are obtained by reprogramming patient’s somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells. This unique technique, which allows generating embryonic pluripotent stem cell-like cells, was awa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-archive-ips-cells-parkinsons-patients - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that makes it possible to see how individual molecules from solvents in skin creams, medicated ointments and cleaning products affect and interact with the skin’s own molecules. In the study, the researchers have examined how molecules added to the skin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-solvents-affect-skin - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Previous research has shown that there may be a connection between daily physical education and improved study performance. A new extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has shown the same connection, but for boys in particular. The project involved several primary school classes in which the pupils participate

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/boys-more-physical-education-school-had-better-grades - 2026-09-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swed

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2026-09-09