Published 22 August 2018 Astrocytes grown from embryonic stem cells (Photo: Isaac Canals) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a faster method to generate functional brain cells, called astrocytes, from embryonic stem cells. Astrocytes play a significant role in neurodegenerative diseases. The new method reduces the time required to produce the cells from months to two weeks, an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-grows-brain-cells-stem-cells-quickly-and-efficiently - 2025-01-25

Published 29 August 2018 Harris’s hawk (Photo: Simon Potier) In many cases it is the colour of the prey that helps predatory birds to detect, pursue and capture them. In a new study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden show that the Harris’s hawk has the best colour vision of all animals investigated to date – and in certain situations, even better than humans. The findings may help to protect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colour-vision-makes-birds-prey-successful-hunters - 2025-01-25

Published 3 September 2018 Cognitive scientists at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated that experimentally induced changes in political attitudes can last over time. Notably, participants’ who verbally motivated these ”false attitudes” exhibited the largest changes. This is the first time a lasting effect of the choice blindness phenomenon has been observed. In th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/induced-changes-political-attitude-can-last-over-time - 2025-01-25

Published 7 September 2018 Bacteriophages inject their DNA into bacteria (Image: Alex Evilevitch och Ting Liu) The way viruses inject their genome in cells affects the course of infection. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Illinois, USA, have shown that viruses that infect bacteria attack either in a synchronised or random fashion when injecting their DNA – something th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-determines-course-infection-discovered - 2025-01-25

Published 10 September 2018 Creative commons/Milestoned Up to now, researchers have believed that birds stay at home and altruistically help raise younger siblings because this is the only way to pass on genes when you cannot breed yourself. But this idea is only partially true. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds benefit from being helpful because it also increases their c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-help-each-other-partly-selfish-reasons - 2025-01-25

Published 10 September 2018 Elias Kristensson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Why do proton collisions resemble the early universe? Will we see X-ray imaging of the connections between neurons in brain tissue one day? Can lung tissue be 3D bioprinted to help patients in need of a lung transplant? And what can you film in in less than 0.000000000001 seconds? Four promising researchers at Lund University have

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2025-01-25

Published 11 September 2018 Jonas Eberhard, Associate Professor of General Psychiatry at Lund University and editor-in-chief of Digital Psychiatry In recent years, an increasing number of research articles have been published based on, and closely related to, digital psychiatry. The volume is now so great that it is time to gather these publications in a separate scientific journal fully dedicated

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/digital-psychiatry-new-scientific-journal - 2025-01-25

Published 13 September 2018 Veronika Tarnovskaya In 2010, GAP introduced a new logo, sparking an online backlash and ultimately resulting in the reintroduction of the old logo. A new study from Lund University in Sweden argues that this was the first of many cases where brand creation has had to adjust to a complex, interactive, and sometimes unpredictable online environment. “Looking back, we can

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/corporate-rebranding-gone-wrong-gap-logo-case - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25

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 - 2025-01-25