Published 13 September 2018 Mine Islar By adopting methods used by activist citizen movements, municipal level politics can become more inclusive and even pave the way for sustainable transformations. Mine Islar, from Lund University, has studied the politics of Barcelona en Comú, an activist citizen platform that came to power in the municipality of Barcelona in 2015. Mine Islar, from Lund Univer

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/citizen-activist-movements-can-invigorate-local-politics - 2025-01-11

Published 14 September 2018 Photo: Tomas Persson At the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden, visitors and chimpanzees imitate each other to an equal degree. This was shown in a study published in the journal Primates in 2017. The researchers – cognitive scientists Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc and Elainie Madsen at Lund University in Sweden – are this year awarded the Ig Nobel Prize, which is presented

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ig-nobel-prize-awarded-study-how-chimpanzees-and-humans-imitate-one-another - 2025-01-11

Published 14 September 2018 Photo: Kennet Ruona Pollinating insects are endangered globally, with a particularly steep decline over the last 40 years. An extensive 3-year study from Lund University in Sweden has found that organic farming methods can contribute to halting the pollinator decline. This beneficial effect is due to both the absence of insecticides and a higher provision of flower reso

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organic-farming-methods-favour-pollinators - 2025-01-11

Published 17 September 2018 Carl Borrebaeck (Photo: Apelöga) Pancreatic cancer is currently very difficult to detect while it is still resectable. A new blood test developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, Herlev Hospital, Knight Cancer Center and Immunovia AB, can detect pancreatic cancer in the very earliest stages of the disease. The results have been published in the Journal of Cl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-blood-test-detects-early-stage-pancreatic-cancer - 2025-01-11

Published 18 September 2018 Galina Pankratova Intestinal bacteria can create an electric current, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The results are valuable for the development of drugs, but also for the production of bioenergy, for example. It is already known that bacteria can create an electric current outside their own cell, known as extracellular electron transport. Thi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intestinal-bacteria-produce-electric-current-sugar - 2025-01-11

Published 19 September 2018 Tau PET imaging shows substantial levels of tau pathology in temporal and parietal regions in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. (Image: Oskar Hansson) Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease can be difficult, as several other conditions can cause similar symptoms. Now a new brain imaging method can show the spread of specific tau protein depositions, which are unique to cases w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-enables-accurate-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-01-11

Published 24 September 2018 Maiken Nedergaard This year’s Eric K. Fernström foundation Grand Nordic Prize – one of the largest awards for medicine in Scandinavia – goes to neurology researcher Maiken Nedergaard, who works at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Rochester. She has discovered and investigated how the brain gets rid of harmful products using its own purification system,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/neurology-researcher-wins-prestigious-prize-discovery-brains-cleaning-system - 2025-01-11

Published 3 October 2018 Using machine learning and optimisation to find refugees’ new homes can significantly improve their chances of finding work within three months, according to new research. The international collaboration, conducted by researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Lund, Sweden as well as the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, involved developing Annie MOORE, an AI-powered sof

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-ai-improve-refugee-integration - 2025-01-11

Published 4 October 2018 The TEDDY Study has increased our knowledge about what happens prior to the onset of autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and has shown that a stomach infection can trigger coeliac disease. Lund University in Sweden has now received just over SEK 40 million from the American National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue the TEDDY Study for another five years. “We have l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/international-diabetes-study-receives-sek-40-million-continue - 2025-01-11

Published 5 October 2018 Photo: Mostphotos The complement proteins that circulate in our blood are an important part of our immune system. They help identify bacteria, viruses and other harmful organisms, making it easier for our white blood cells to find and neutralise dangerous microbes. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a previously unknown function of the central com

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-function-key-component-immune-system-discovered - 2025-01-11

Published 5 October 2018 Daniel Conley and Malin Parmar (Photo: Lena Björk Blixt, Kennet Ruona) Lund University has received SEK 56 million from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to finance two research projects. One will aim to find innovative ways of repairing an injured brain, and the other will investigate the crucial effect silicon has on the climate. Malin Parmar, professor of Cellula

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-grants-awarded-research-brain-repair-and-diatoms - 2025-01-11

Published 8 October 2018 The lead author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees, released today, is available for comment. Luis Mundaca is a professor at the International Institute for Indutrial Environmental Economics at Lund University. “The assessment indicates that limiting global warming to 1.5 ˚C is not impossible, but the challenges are unprecedented. The feasibility of meeting the targ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/world-can-still-achieve-ambitious-climate-targets - 2025-01-11

Published 8 October 2018 Albert Salehi (Photo: Sara Liedholm) By blocking a protein, VDAC1, in the insulin-producing beta cells, it is possible to restore their normal function in case of type 2 diabetes. In preclinical experiments, the researchers behind a new study have also shown that it is possible to prevent the development of the disease. The findings are published in the scientific journal

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-discovery-restores-insulin-cell-function-type-2-diabetes - 2025-01-11

Published 10 October 2018 W. M. Keck Observatory (Photo: Nils Ryde) Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy’s giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion. Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of aston

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-solve-mystery-centre-milky-way - 2025-01-11

Published 15 October 2018 After screening 15 000 women over a period of five years, a major clinical study in Sweden has shown that 3D mammography, or breast tomosynthesis, detects over 30% more cancers compared to traditional mammography – with a majority of the detected tumours proving to be invasive cancers. The extensive screening study was conducted by Lund University and Skåne University Hos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/3d-mammography-detected-34-more-breast-cancers-screening - 2025-01-11

Published 16 October 2018 Every year, traffic accidents account for more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide. In an effort to reduce this figure, Lund University offers international courses in road safety management for professionals. In August this year, Lund University was privileged to welcome participants from Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and South Africa. Over the past 35 years, Lund Unive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/commissioned-education-lund-university-contributes-reduction-traffic-fatalities - 2025-01-11

Published 19 October 2018 Daubenton's bat (Photo: Jens Rydell) For the first time, researchers have measured what is known as the ground effect of flying animals - and it turns out that they save a lot more energy by flying close to the ground than previously believed. The study from Lund University in Sweden supports one of the theories on how birds began to fly. “Our measurements show that the g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-may-provide-clues-how-birds-began-fly - 2025-01-11

Published 24 October 2018 Henrik Jörntell (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) How does the brain process information that is generated when we touch different things with our hands – the mirror of deeper intelligence? Could that knowledge teach us to better understand and diagnose brain diseases? An EU grant of SEK 32 million will go towards studying what happens in the brain when we interact with the worl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/grant-awarded-visionary-research-how-brain-predicts-outside-world - 2025-01-11

Published 25 October 2018 Luis Mundaca (Photo: Sara Bernstrup Nilsson) Efforts to combat climate change tend to focus on supply-side changes, such as shifting to renewable or cleaner energy. In a Special Issue in the Energy Efficiency Journal that follows the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ˚C, researchers argue that demand-side approaches can play a crucial role given the aspirationa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/can-we-limit-global-warming-15-degc - 2025-01-11

Published 29 October 2018 William Kalderon, Eric Corrigan, Eva Hansen (remotely), Caterina Doglioni, Alexander Ekman. Photo: Lena Björk Blixt. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden, among others, have developed a more effective technique in the search for clues about dark matter in the universe. They can now analyse much larger amounts of the data generated at CERN. At the CERN research facil

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scientists-refine-search-dark-matter - 2025-01-11