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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders. The researchers have focused on the neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease and the results have now been published in the journal Brain. Basic medical research often faces the challenge of developing disease models that correspond to specific disease mechanisms or the disease to
Why do some people develop type 1 diabetes and others do not? Worldwide, researchers are now collaborating to find the answer to this complex question.Diabetes researchers at Lund University recently contributed data to a new study that shows that type 1 diabetes develops in three different ways in children. This improved understanding makes it possible for scientists to conduct new types of studi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-testing-children-leads-better-understanding-type-1-diabetes - 2026-06-19
By analyzing DNA with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has developed a method that can accurately date up to ten-thousand year-old human remains. Accurately dating ancient humans is key when mapping how people migrated during world history.The standard dating method since the 1950s has been radiocarbon dating. The method, whi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-develop-first-ai-based-method-dating-archeological-remains - 2026-06-19
Around 80% of people with Down syndrome develop Alzheimer’s disease, often when they are between 40 and 50 years old. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has shown that a simple blood test can detect Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome with a high degree of certainty. The findings are important for several reasons, not least the ability to make a correct diagnosis without invasiv
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-test-detects-alzheimers-people-down-syndrome - 2026-06-19
The environment in which breast cancer arises –the interplay between the patient’s BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins –is of importance for the prognosis. This is shown in a study from Lund University in Sweden. The knowledge could further enhance precision medicine in breast cancer. Major advances in diagnostics and treatment have improved survival rates among breast cancer patients in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/tumour-environment-can-affect-breast-cancer-prognosis - 2026-06-19
The most common analytical method within population genetics is deeply flawed, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. This may have led to incorrect results and misconceptions about ethnicity and genetic relationships. The method has been used in hundreds of thousands of studies, affecting results within medical genetics and even commercial ancestry tests. The study is published
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-reveals-flaws-popular-genetic-method - 2026-06-19
A large amount of lungs donated cannot be used for transplantation. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital have conducted an animal study bringing hope that more donor lungs could be used in the future. The researchers have launched a pilot study to investigate whether the treatment will have the same positive effects on human beings. About 190 organs are donated in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-treatment-could-result-more-donor-lungs - 2026-06-19
Per Augustsson, Associate Professor at the department of Biomedical Engineering at Lund University, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his work on how liquids and cells behave in a sound field. A total of 55 researchers from around Europe will each receive EUR 150,000 from the European Research Council to investigate the commercial potential of their research. They have all previou
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-research-separating-cells-using-ultrasound - 2026-06-19
Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by these bees were smaller. This is shown by a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Strawberries are known to become bigger if bees have visited their flowers, but how strawberry growth is affected if the bees have been exposed to neonicotinoid ins
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/strawberries-were-smaller-when-bees-ingested-pesticides - 2026-06-19
New excavations have coaxed more secrets from Gribshunden, the flagship of the Danish-Norwegian King Hans which mysteriously sank in 1495 off the coast of Ronneby, Sweden. The wreck is internationally significant as the world’s best-preserved ship from the Age of Exploration – a proxy for the vessels of Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama. During August and September, a scientific team from Lun
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cutting-edge-science-reveals-gribshundens-shipwrecked-secrets - 2026-06-19
Using data from the Gaia space telescope, a team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has shown that large parts of the Milky Way's outer disk vibrate. The ripples are caused by a dwarf galaxy, now seen in the constellation Sagittarius, that shook our galaxy as it passed by hundreds of millions of years ago. Our cosmic home, the Milky Way, contains between 100 and 400 billion stars. Ast
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mysterious-ripples-milky-way-were-caused-passing-dwarf-galaxy - 2026-06-19
The lab that will take us closer to the aviation fuel of the future has now opened. The Jet Engine Lab at Lund University makes it possible to conduct full-scale studies on how engines are affected by new fuels – knowledge that will become increasingly important when fossil-based aviation fuels are phased out and replaced by more sustainable alternatives. The Jet Engine Lab is at LU's School of Av
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aviation-fuel-lab-opened - 2026-06-19
A new study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that cities negatively affect the diversity of birds. There are significantly fewer bird species in urban forests compared with forests in the countryside - even if the forest areas are of the same quality. The researchers examined 459 natural woodlands located in or near 32 cities in southern Sweden. They counted the occurrence of different bird
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/less-bird-diversity-city-forests - 2026-06-19
In the past week, several reports of the human rights protests in Iran have reached the wider world. Lund University has also been touched by these protests, which have spread and are now visible in the West, on the streets, in social media and the European Parliament, for example. Lund University stands up for and safeguards democracy, freedom of opinion, respect for everyone’s equal value, and h
Modern RNA-sekvensering kan ge bröstcancervården värdefulla ledtrådar och matcha enskilda patienter till rätt behandling – utifrån tumörens unika egenskaper och genuttryck. I en aktuell studie har data och genuttryck från drygt 7 700 cancertumörer använts för att utveckla vässade analysmodeller av RNA-sekvenseringen; en analys av ett enskilt vävnadsprov kan beskriva flera av tumörens egenskaper. P
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/precisionsmedicin-20-val-av-brostcancerbehandling - 2026-06-19
När vi blir äldre förändras rösten. Den blir knarrigare, tunnare och mer instabil. Stämbanden blir mindre flexibla och eftersom vi tappar muskelmassa, försämras även andningsfunktionen. Nu har ett forskningsprojekt inletts på Lunds universitet, om de ergonomiska anpassningar samt träning av röstkapacitet som krävs, för att individens röstfunktion ska orka hänga med längre i arbetslivet. Rösten för
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/rostkapacitet-ett-langre-arbetsliv-och-social-interaktion - 2026-06-19
Sprutbytet i Malmö startade för 35 år sedan och var då ett kontroversiellt projekt. Fram till 2006 var det förbjudet i svensk lag att bedriva sprutbyte på andra orter än Lund och Malmö. Men forskningen kring smittspridning talar sitt tydliga språk och idag finns sprutbyte på ett flertal platser i Sverige. Här erbjuds en svårnådd grupp behandling och på sikt en drogfri tillvaro. Klockan är tio på m
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/sprutbyte-naloxon-och-rehabilitering-vid-opioidberoende - 2026-06-19
Äldre har sämre tillgång till palliativ vård. En anledning till det är att personalen saknar kunskap om tidiga tecken på att döden närmar sig. Döden ses som en händelse, inte som den process det är. Genom utbildning i palliativ vård kan boendepersonalen bli tryggare och mer kompetent i sin roll, visar en avhandling från Lunds universitet. Distriktssköterskan Helene Åvik Perssons avhandling ingår i
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/kunskap-om-doende-ger-tryggare-boendepersonal - 2026-06-19
Läkare ska hålla så kallade brytpunktssamtal i livets slutskede med obotligt sjuka patienter. Men många gånger ges inga sådana samtal, visar en ny studie vid Lunds universitet. Ett tidsperspektiv skulle kunna hjälpa läkarna att förstå vad patienterna behöver. – Ett ramverk för samtal utifrån år, månader och dagar skulle underlätta för att låta samtal om livets slutskede vara den process det är. De
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/patienter-gar-miste-om-samtal-i-livets-slutskede - 2026-06-19
En femtedel av Sveriges vuxna befolkning har tinnitus och de flesta har även en hörselnedsättning. Nu visar forskare vid Lunds universitet att en enkel undersökning för att ställa in hörapparaten rätt, kan göra att hörapparaternas lindrande effekt på tinnitus kan fördubblas. Tinnitus är ett mycket vanligt problem som innebär att man hör ljud i öronen utan att det orsakas av någon yttre ljudkälla.
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/personer-med-tinnitus-kan-fa-battre-hjalp - 2026-06-19
