Published 16 November 2017 Photo: Viktor Nilsson-Örtman For the first time, researchers have proposed the hypothesis that animals that live in climate zones at a safe distance from both the poles as well as the tropics have the most to gain from acclimating to changes in climate. The findings contradict previous research in the field. Acclimation means the ability of both animals and plants to adj

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/species-north-are-more-vulnerable-climate-change - 2025-07-03

Published 22 November 2017 David Bryder (Photo: Gunnar Menander) A research group at Lund University in Sweden has found that when the HLF (hepatic leukemia factor) gene –which is expressed in immature blood cells – does not shut down on time, we are unable to develop a functional long-term immune system. This could be a very early stage of leukemia. Blood stem cells give rise to all of our blood

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hlf-gene-controls-generation-our-long-term-immune-system - 2025-07-03

Published 23 November 2017 Mikael Lund Chemistry researchers have now discovered how certain small biomolecules attach to one another. The researchers’ study also overturns the standard picture – particles with the same electrical charge appear to be drawn together and not vice versa. The results may be important for the development of new drugs. A number of chemistry researchers from several inst

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/highly-charged-molecules-behave-paradoxically - 2025-07-03

Published 28 November 2017 Göran Jönsson (Photo: Tove Smeds) The more times metastasised melanoma has mutated and the patient’s immune system has been activated against the tumour – the better the chances of survival after immunotherapy. This is what emerges from a research collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Herlev university hospital in Denmark. The findings are now published in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/molecular-profiling-melanoma-tumours-explains-differences-survival-after-t-cell-therapy - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Over 40 billion euro is given annually to European agriculture as direct payments under the Common Agricultural Policy. Yet, the policy fails to deliver on what EU citizens are promised. This is a key message from new research by AgriFood Economics Centre and Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University. Direct payments are area-based income support u

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-payments-farmers-fail-deliver-competitiveness-and-sustainability - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Researchers are launching an interactive tool you can use to test your hypotheses about the European labour market. Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson How successful is Sweden when it comes to innovation? How good are we at integrating people who were born abroad? And what is it like in Great Britain and in Spain? A research project about integration, job quality and employm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-you-want-work-test-your-ideas-about-european-labour-market - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Seibatu Sia Kemoh is 26 years old and works as a community health officer. She recently completed the two-year training programme in surgery and is ready to perform operations in the countryside of Sierra Leone. Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulti

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Photo: Susanne Åkesson Last year, biologist Susanne Åkesson at Lund University in Sweden, together with researchers in Hungary, received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded to them for their research showing that dark-coated horses suffer more from blood-sucking horseflies compared to their white counterparts. Now, the researchers know why animals with a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-blood-sucking-insects-find-dark-coated-cattle-dark - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Animation of the Milky Way (Image: Oscar Agertz) Using data from over a billion stars, a research team at Lund University in Sweden are developing an interactive 3D model of the Milky Way galaxy. This could enable new types of discoveries that aren’t possible with current tools - perhaps even unraveling how the Milky Way was formed. The data being used is from the Gaia s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-create-virtual-reality-model-milky-way - 2025-07-03

Published 30 November 2017 Capsules for transporting drugs, knee injuries that are really osteoarthritis, skin cells reprogrammed into nerve cells, variations in our DNA affecting the production of blood cells, and the urban sharing economy as a potential solution to our sustainability challenges. These are the research areas which have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Resear

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-awarded-lund-researchers - 2025-07-03

Published 1 December 2017 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 choose from is, of course, a good thing. What is less go

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2025-07-03

Published 4 December 2017 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 Univers

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/amniotic-fluid-rich-source-stem-cells-can-now-be-harvested - 2025-07-03

Published 7 December 2017 Photo: Kristin Aleklett 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. In a spoonful of soil there are

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/life-under-surface-live-broadcast - 2025-07-03

Published 11 December 2017 Jan Nilsson (Photo: Sara Liedholm) 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 receptor levels”, sa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/death-receptors-new-markers-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-07-03

Published 11 December 2017 Mattias Magnusson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) 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,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/towards-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer - 2025-07-03

Published 13 December 2017 New approach to resistant bacteria. “The aim is for this patented protein to be usable as an anti-bacterial treatment, when ordinary antibiotics don’t work”, says David Ermert, one of the researchers behind the study. As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2025-07-03

Published 13 December 2017 Mulatu Biru Shargie 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 proper treatment right away. Ethiop

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/social-stigma-obstacle-successful-treatment-children-hiv-ethiopia - 2025-07-03

Published 13 December 2017 Waders. Photo: Magnus Hellström 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, biologists Anders He

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flight-speed-birds-more-complex-previously-thought - 2025-07-03

Published 14 December 2017 Johannes Rousk, Johan Östling and Hanna Isaksson Photo: Markus Marcetic © The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 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 d

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-new-wallenberg-academy-fellows-lund-university - 2025-07-03

Published 18 December 2017 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

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-intact-child-burials-found-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-07-03