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The breast cancer screening tests offered to women may in many cases be unnecessarily painful. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that strong compression of the breast during mammography screening does not automatically lead to a better basis for diagnosis. Every year, hundreds of thousands of women aged between 40 and 74 are invited to undergo mammography to detect abnormal changes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-screening-could-be-better-and-less-painful - 2025-12-29

Social and economic factors have led to a dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes and obesity around the world. In a review in Science, Mark McCarthy, professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Paul Franks, professor at Lund University, Sweden, examine the knowledge of the actual causes and the interplay between genetics and lifestyle factors. By studying how our genes express themselves in response

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-12-29

It’s a known fact that cells can move around the body, but how they do it has been unknown – until now. Researcher in Infection Medicine Pontus Nordenfelt at Lund University in Sweden has managed to describe and visualise cell migration on a molecular level. In time, this could become significant in the treatment of infectious diseases, inflammation, cancer, etc. where cell migration plays an impo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-cells-move - 2025-12-29

An extensive study led by a researcher at Lund University in Sweden has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental impact, biodiversity and the economy, over the long term. Until now, studies of this kind have always focused largely on large-scale palm oil producers and how they exploit t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-scale-agriculture-threatens-rainforest - 2025-12-29

75 percent of all people with haemophilia around the world are left untreated, which causes a great deal of suffering and many severe disabilities. But it is possible to lead a healthy life. This is what the internationally known contract education Haemophilia – from diagnosis to therapy is about. Some 10 years ago, a discussion began outside of Sweden about the difficulty in recruiting physicians

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pioneering-course-decreases-suffering-people-haemophilia-around-world - 2025-12-29

A skeleton was found during construction work at Leine castle in Niedersachsen, Germany in the summer of 2016. This is where Swedish count Philip Christoph Königsmarck disappeared 322 years ago – could it be him? Lund University in Sweden follows the dangerous love story between Philip Königsmarck and Georg Ludwig’s wife Sophia Dorothea through the love letters they wrote to each other, currently

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-could-300-year-old-murder-mystery-finally-be-solved - 2025-12-29

Shorter wound healing time, fewer dressing changes and the opportunity for earlier discharge from the hospital. These are some of the benefits of negative pressure wound therapy to treat wound infections in connection with vascular surgery at the groin. The method, which has become increasingly common, is also cost-effective. This is shown in a thesis from Lund University in Sweden in which the me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-healing-infected-wounds-using-negative-pressure-technique - 2025-12-29

Rapid climate change will lead to greater shortages of food, fuel, energy and animal feed in vast rural areas of eastern and southern Africa. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study from Lund University in Sweden. The two weather phenomena El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (jointly abbreviated to ENSO) lead to powerful variations in the climate of sub-Saharan Africa. Until now, it

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/enso-threatens-food-supply-southern-africa-0 - 2025-12-29

In the first US presidential debate there were many who noticed Donald Trump’s sniffling. It created a twitter storm under the hashtag #TrumpSniffles and the media became extremely interested in the presidential candidate’s health. However, Lisa Flower, a doctoral student in Sociology at Lund University, Sweden, who is currently doing research on emotions, offers an alternative explanation: “My re

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-was-donald-trump-sniffling - 2025-12-29

There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Oksana Mont, professor at The International

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2025-12-29

Warm and caring student-teacher relationships can be linked to students’ motivation to intervene in cases of bullying. Behind those who remain passive bystanders or accomplices to bullying there is often a conflict-filled situation between the student and the teacher. This has been shown in a new study recently published by psychologist Tomas Jungert from Lund University, Sweden. Between 4 and 12

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/warm-relationship-between-students-and-teachers-linked-decreased-bullying - 2025-12-29

Oxygen in the air is well known to cause damaging rust on cars through a process known as oxidation. Similarly, a research group at Lund University in Sweden, has now identified that certain cells during embryonic development also are negatively affected by oxidation. This oxidation is capable of leading to a block in cellular function. The researchers use a laboratory based culture system to gene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stem-cells-also-rust - 2025-12-29

The common swift flies ten months on end without landing. The hypothesis on these birds’ life in the air was presented by British researcher Ron Lockley back in 1970, but it is only now that researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to prove the extreme lifestyle of the species. No other bird species remains in the air for as long without landing. Using a new type of microdata log, the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-bird-can-stay-ten-months-air-without-landing - 2025-12-29

The first transplantation of stem cells in patients with Parkinson's disease is almost within reach. However, it remains a challenge for researchers to control stem cells accurately in the lab in order to achieve successful and functional stem cell therapies for patients. - In our preclinical assessments of stem cell-derived dopamine neurons we noticed that the outcome in animal models varied dram

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-production-dopamine-neurons-parkinsons-disease - 2025-12-29

What connection is there between food and drink with added sugar and coronary artery disease? Until recently, the question had been inadequately answered by research, but an extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has now contributed important clues. The study in question focuses on sucrose. Sucrose occurs naturally in fruit and vegetables, but the majority of our consumption is through add

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/association-between-sugary-diet-and-coronary-artery-disease - 2025-12-29

There are more and more examples of the ways in which we can benefit from our bacteria. According to researcher Rolf Lood from Lund University in Sweden, this is true for the skin as well. He has shown that the most common bacteria on human skin secrete a protein which protects us from the reactive oxygen species thought to contribute to several skin diseases. The protein has an equally strong eff

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skin-bacteria-could-protect-against-disease - 2025-12-29

Seven years ago divers discovered the oldest known stationary fish traps in northern Europe off the coast of southern Sweden. Since then, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age site. They now believe the location was a lagoon environment where Mesolithic humans lived during parts of the year. Other spectacular finds include a 9,000 year-ol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-underwater-stone-age-settlement-mapped-out - 2025-12-29

Lund University’s 350th anniversary is highlighted with two stamps produced by PostNord, Sweden’s postal authority. Although the stamps were first released on 10 November in Stockholm, today was the official ceremonial launch in Lund. The ceremony that took place in the main University building was attended by the Vice-Chancellor Torbjörn von Schantz, designer Gustav Mårtensson, as well as the for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-honoured-jubilee-stamps - 2025-12-29

In preparing for the University’s jubilee year which starts on 19 December, Lund University is now publishing a popular science book entitled “Lund University over 350 Years – History and Stories”. The book is about the University’s journey from a small provincial academy with 14 professors and 80 students to the major international university that it is today, recurrently ranked among the top 100

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/jubilee-book-highlights-history-lund-university-popular-form - 2025-12-29

With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors, researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to “turn off” an enzyme that proved to play a key role in the regulation of the diabetes-associated TXNIP gene. The results are decreased cell death and increased insulin production in the genetically modified pancreatic beta cells. In a recent study, researchers have conducted an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/crispr-editing-pancreatic-cells-reduced-cell-death-and-increased-insulin-secretion - 2025-12-29