Published 19 November 2020 Pia Johansson, CRISPR core facility manager CRISPR is a simple yet powerful Nobel Prize winning technology that allows sequence specific editing and manipulation of DNA sequences. The CRISPR facility at Lund Stem Cell Center is here to help you with your projects using this technology. What is CRISPR and who is it for? CRISPR started as a “traditional” gene editing tool,

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-crispr-facility-here-help - 2025-01-20

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 2 December 2020 The results are in and it’s time to announce the winners of Lund Stem Cell Center Image Competition 2020. We are pleased to announce the winners of the Lund Stem Cell Center Image competition 2020 are: First place: Grasping at straws – Ludwig Schmiderer and Martin Hjort, Larsson group and Nanolund Sec

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 December 2020 Johan Jakobsson and Johan Flygare. Photo credit: Kennet Ruona The leadership team set to guide Lund Stem Cell Center for the next three years was announced in early September 2020. In this interview with newly appointed coordinator Johan Jakobsson and deputy coordinator Johan Flygare, we hear about th

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 18 December 2020 Despite the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are bringing science to schools both physically and using a digital platform. High school students across the Skåne region are learning about stem cell research in the ‘Taking science to schools – Borrow a scientist’ initiative, org

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/taking-stem-cells-high-schools-during-covid-19-pandemic - 2025-01-20

By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 8 January 2021 The Regenerative Neurophysiology Research Group – (left to right) Andreas Bruzelius, Daniella Ottosson (Prinicipal Investigator), Srisaiyini Kidnapillai, Christina-Anastasia Stamouli and Efrain Cepeda-Prado. Image credit: Johan Persson A research group from Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand a sp

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By Alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 19 January 2021 Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are performing ‘fast’ Covid-19 tests at Lund University Hospital. Image credit: Kennet Ruona With the enormous pressure on the Swedish health care system during the ongoing pandemic, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center are helping battle Covid-19. In response

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By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 19 January 2021 Sinem Tas. Photo: Agata Garpenlind The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers have been awarded a large Vinnova grant to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. The project is a co-operation between preclinical, clinical researchers and

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-interdisciplinary-co-op-between-researchers-healthcare-and-industry-formed-fight-virus - 2025-01-20

Published 25 January 2021 We are very happy to announce that Emma Hammarlund and the Evolution of Stemness Control and Multicellularity research group have joined Lund Stem Cell Center! Emma and her team aim to understand how the rise of animals on Earth relates to the evolution of stemness control, an event we know very little about. Why animals evolved on the Earth remains poorly understood. As

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By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 17 February 2021 Martina de Santis defends her PhD thesis Friday 19th February PhD student Martina De Santis will be defending her thesis titled ‘Next generation bioengineering of lung tissue for transplantation’ on Friday 19th February 2021. In this interview, Martina tells us about her research in the Lung Bioengin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martina-de-santis - 2025-01-20

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 1 March 2021 A high power microscopy image of a neuron (blue) in which the epigenetic silencing of ERVs are lost, resulting in abundant ERV proteins (red). Photo credit: Marie Jönsson. Researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center highlight the importance of controlling viral elements that reside in the genome and how their

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/activation-ancient-viruses-during-brain-development-causes-inflammation - 2025-01-20

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 3 March 2021 Image of breast cancer cells expressing a stem cell marker (CD44, green signal) and sporting richly interwoven mitochondrial networks (red). Image credit Maciej Ciesla. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified a new layer of gene regulation mediated by changes in ribonucleic acid metabo

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/regulation-rna-splicing-reveals-unique-clinical-features-aggressive-breast-cancers - 2025-01-20

By Alexander [dot] Doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 9 March 2021 Shelby Shrigley defends her PhD thesis on Friday 12th March 2021. During her PhD studies Shelby Shrigley has been exploring patient-specific cell replacement therapy for Parkinson's disease. Defending her PhD thesis on March 12th, here Shelby tells us about her research within the Developmental and Regen

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By Asa [dot] Hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 10 March 2021 Image depicting the structure of an IgG antibody. In recent years, therapeutic antibodies have transformed the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new, efficient method based on the genetic scissors CRISPR-Cas9, that facilitates antib

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-method-developing-antibody-based-drugs - 2025-01-20

By Agata [dot] Garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 12 March 2021 The fight against COVID-19 continues. In Lund, researchers are working to identify a compound that could be used to prevent viral infection, and thus save lives. “This model that has been developed with our collaborators will fill an important gap for current and future drug screening efforts for the

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-model-human-airways-speeds-battle-against-covid-19 - 2025-01-20

Published 2 May 2024 Ullrika Sahlin. Photo: Kenneth Ruona Ullrika Sahlin, a CEC researcher specialising in Computational Science for Health and Environment (COSHE) research, recently completed a mission for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). EFSA's scientific experts learned how to express uncertainty in a clear way. EFSA was set up in 2002 in the wake of crises of confidence in food safet

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/improving-food-safety-risk-assessment-eu - 2025-01-20

Published 2 May 2024 COSHE stands for Computational Science for Health and Environment. The hub is based at Geocentrum II in Lund. Photo: Kenneth Ruona/CEC. A computational science hub, COSHE, has been established at Lund University. The aim is to become a creative hub for computational science with a focus on interdisciplinary research in the fields of health, climate and the environment. COSHE w

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/computational-science-hub-sharpen-research-environment-and-health - 2025-01-20

By sara [dot] hakansson [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Håkansson) - published 21 May 2024 By choosing natural materials, putting away plastic items and avoiding chemicals, we can favour biodiversity in our gardens, says researcher Maria Hansson. Photo: Johan Persson Toxins and chemicals are a major threat to our environment. The "third crisis" - the chemical crisis - is often forgotten when we t

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-ways-create-toxin-free-garden - 2025-01-20

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 23 May 2024 Opening session of Swedish Climate Symposium 2024 After a year of intensive work by many involved, the Swedish Climate Symposium with its close to 400 participants, has come to an end. Now an evaluation of the conference awaits, but the feeling is that most people experienced it as a successful event. To take the p

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/voices-swedish-climate-symposium - 2025-01-20

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 18 June 2024 Sweden is also increasingly affected by unusually intense storms. Here, a flooded playground in the city of Landskrona after the storm "Hans" in August 2023. Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with somethi

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-01-20

By therese [dot] ek [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Therese Ek) - published 5 July 2024 The common reed is considered a weed, but in the farmed landscape it can benefit biodiversity as its seeds become food for insects and its pollen is a mummy for some pollinators. Here it grows beautifully in a spring barley field. One of the world's greatest challenges is to feed the world's population in a sustain

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/organic-farms-potential-higher-yields - 2025-01-20