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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

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 - 2025-05-01

Published 9 April 2018 Jan Sunquist (Photo: Johan Bävman) Professor and family physician Jan Sundquist at the Center for Primary Health Care Research at Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in the 2017 call for applications. ERC Advanced Grant (ERC AdG) is awarded to world-leading researchers in support of excellent and innovative rese

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/jan-sundquist-lund-university-awarded-erc-advanced-grant - 2025-05-01

Published 10 April 2018 Greenfinches (Photo: Thomas Alerstam) In a unique study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped the origins of migratory birds. They used the results to investigate and discover major differences in the immune systems of sedentary and migratory birds. The researchers conclude that migratory species benefit from leaving tropical areas when it is time to raise t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-migrate-away-diseases - 2025-05-01

Published 16 April 2018 My Andersson, Mérab Kokaia and Fredrik Berglind. Photo: Eliska Waloschkova Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have found a method that in the future could help people suffering from epilepsy so severe that all current treatment is ineffective. “In mice studies, we succeeded in reducing seizure activity by intervening in an area of the brain that is not th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hope-new-treatment-severe-epilepsy - 2025-05-01

Published 17 April 2018 Illustration: Alessandro Tota (artist), Fiamma Luzzati (storyboard artist) . In 2017, the European Research Council (ERC) adopted a new approach to making research accessible to a broader audience – creating cartoons. Malin Parmar, a professor of cellular neuroscience at Lund University and recipient of an ERC grant, is one of the Swedish researchers whose research formed t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/final-episode-erccomics-series-cells-life - 2025-05-01

Published 18 April 2018 Lukas Tomas and Harry Björkbacka (Photo: Björn Martinsson) New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that inflammatory, unstable atherosclerotic plaque has a metabolism that differs from that of stable plaque – and is similar to that of cancer cells. Future research will therefore investigate whether cancer drugs could potentially be used to treat cardiovascular dis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/similarity-between-high-risk-atherosclerotic-plaque-and-cancer-cells-discovered - 2025-05-01

Published 19 April 2018 Image: Lund University Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå are to become test cities in a new national sharing economy programme. “The cities of the future are facing major challenges. Sweden shall be a leader when it comes to developing the solutions that a sharing economy entails”, says Kes McCormick at Lund University. The programme – Sharing Cities Sweden – will be la

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-swedish-cities-become-sharing-economy-test-pilots - 2025-05-01

Published 27 April 2018 The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This ban on three main neonicotinoids has widespread public as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2025-05-01

Published 30 April 2018 The blue-tailed damselfly (Ischnura elegans) in mating formation. Photo: Rachael Dudaniec How are insects responding to rapid climate change? Damselflies are evolving rapidly as they expand their range in response to a warming climate, according to new research led by Macquarie University researchers in Sydney. Damselflies are evolving rapidly as they expand their range in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/are-damselflies-distress - 2025-05-01

Published 2 May 2018 Gaia. Illustration: ESA/ATG medialab and ESO/S. Brunier. The most comprehensive star catalogue in the history of astronomy has been released, mapping out an impressive 1.7 billion stars. The catalogue is based on observations made by the European satellite Gaia, and contains the exact distances, luminosity, temperatures and colours of millions of stars in the Milky Way. Astron

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-detailed-star-catalogue-ever-released - 2025-05-01

Published 3 May 2018 Ivanna Read. Photo: Mats Kristersson. Meet Ivanna Read: the Master's student in Strategic Communication who is putting Lund University on the map as a blogger on Studyinsweden.se. In addition to being a high achiever academically, she is also the University's latest global ambassador - on 8 May she will be named as Lund University's Global Swede at a ceremony at the Ministry f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-new-global-ambassador - 2025-05-01

Published 4 May 2018 Agroecology is a better alternative than large-scale agriculture, both for the climate and for small farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to researcher Ellinor Isgren from Lund University in Sweden. This agricultural model preserves biodiversity and safeguards food supply while avoiding soil depletion. “We must consider other, alternative models for developing agriculture,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/agroecology-better-alternative-sub-saharan-africa - 2025-05-01

Published 14 May 2018 New sand filters being installed at Ringsjöverket in southern Sweden. (Photo: Sandy Chan) Sustainable, biological filters called slow sand filters have been used to filter drinking water since the 1800s. They don’t use any chemicals, create no waste and use very little energy. However, technologies that meet modern requirements for control, monitoring and time-efficiency have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eco-friendly-water-treatment-works-best-experienced-bacterial-flora - 2025-05-01

Published 15 May 2018 Elia Psouni For human beings to function socially, they need to be able to perceive, understand, and talk about others’ mental states, such as beliefs, desires and intentions. There is no consensus among researchers as to when children develop this ability. Previous research indicates that it emerges around the age of four, but research at Lund University in Sweden shows that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/attentive-adults-increase-childrens-ability-empathise - 2025-05-01

Published 16 May 2018 Malin Parmar (Photo: Kennet Ruona) One of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Novo Nordisk, are starting a new stem cell program for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease in close collaboration with Lund University. Over the last ten years, Professor Malin Parmar and her research team at the Biomedical Centre in Lund have conducted successful, clinically relevant, ba

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/collaboration-between-lund-university-researchers-and-novo-nordisk-paves-way-large-scale-cell - 2025-05-01

Published 16 May 2018 Blue tits (Photo: Johan Nilsson) For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a completely new explanation: the body temperature of small birds can increase by more than 4°C to exceed 45°C when they are feeding their young. Larger broods would require more work, resul

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-birds-almost-overheat-while-feeding-their-young - 2025-05-01