Published 4 December 2019 Skylark (Photo: Richard Ubels) Researchers in Sweden and the UK have discovered the largest known avian sex chromosome. The giant chromosome was created when four chromosomes fused together into one, and has been found in two species of lark. “This was an unexpected discovery, as birds are generally considered to have very stable genetic material with well-preserved chrom

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/record-size-sex-chromosome-found-two-bird-species - 2025-01-05

Published 4 December 2019 Photo: Mikael Risedal An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate climate science to consequences,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2025-01-05

Published 5 December 2019 Photo: Mostphotos Parasport continues to grow worldwide. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how Paralympic athletes run the risk of both being injured by strenuous training as well as being affected by injuries and illness due to their impairment. The results indicate that the incidence is almost twice as high when compared with similar studies of athletes

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/injuries-and-illness-are-big-concerns-paralympic-athletes-unique-study-reveals - 2025-01-05

Published 9 December 2019 Pauline Mattsson has interviewed Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine. ”It is exciting for the winners to be like rock stars for a week. Many recalled how well they were received during their visit to Sweden,” she says. Photo: Istock There is no magic formula for who is going to win a Nobel Prize, but there are many common denominators among Nobel Prize winners,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winners-rock-stars-week - 2025-01-05

Published 10 December 2019 Filipe Pereira (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total EUR 600 million. Filipe Pereira at Lund University in Sweden is one of the 8

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-innovative-immunotherapy-research - 2025-01-05

Published 11 December 2019 Lyckebyån River (Photo: Eva Steiner) By analysing almost daily water samples taken from the same river from 1940 until today, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have confirmed their hypothesis that the browning of lakes is primarily due to the increase in coniferous forests, as well as rainfall and sulphur deposits. The study was carried out on the Lyckebyån River

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-data-confirms-why-water-turns-brown - 2025-01-05

Published 13 December 2019 An illustration of when a virus shell reaches the dopamine-producing nerve cells that die in Parkinson's disease (Illustration: Tomas Björklund) Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new technology that engineers the shell of a virus to deliver gene therapy to the exact cell type in the body that needs to be treated. The researchers believe that t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-tech-method-uniquely-targeted-gene-therapy-developed - 2025-01-05

Published 16 December 2019 Illustration: Mostphotos Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise in general – with anti-scientific attitudes increasingly influencing politics. So why can’t we stop such views from spreading

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conspiracy-theories-how-belief-rooted-evolution-not-ignorance - 2025-01-05

Published 17 December 2019 Céline Fernandez (Photo: Sara Liedholm) Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2025-01-05

Published 17 December 2019 Photo: Unsplash A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably more than previously thought. Among other things, the insects are a factor in the leaching of nutrients from soil and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. The researchers also establish that the temperature may rise as a result of an increase

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-eating-insects-disrupt-ecosystems-and-contribute-climate-change - 2025-01-05

Published 20 December 2019 Experiment set-up measuring how many blinks per minute a falcon perceives. (Photo: Simon Potier) Extremely acute vision and the ability to rapidly process different visual impressions – these two factors are crucial when a peregrine falcon bears down on its prey at a speed that easily matches that of a Formula 1 racing car: over 350 kilometres per hour. The visual acuity

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/falcons-see-prey-speed-formula-1-car - 2025-01-05

Published 20 December 2019 Anna Häger Glenngård and Sixten Borg. (Photo: Louise Larsson) The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2025-01-05

Published 20 December 2019 Hans Nordegaard, Sylvaine Laulom, Anne Ruth Mackor Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-law-lund-university - 2025-01-05

Published 8 January 2020 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments. For that reason, experimental models are used, such as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2025-01-05

Published 8 January 2020 Madelene Å Andersson, Sven Kjellström, Jitka Petrlova, Artur Schmidtchen, Ann-Charlotte Strömdahl, Manoj Puthia. (Photo: Olle Dahlbäck) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2025-01-05

Published 9 January 2020 Different views and values within an organisation can complicate collaborations with other organisations. However, leaders who are prepared for this may be more successful in navigating their way through the storm unscathed. This is discussed in a newly published article by researcher Anna Brattström in the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Hope and despair. These

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/distrust-and-hope-characterise-innovation-collaborations - 2025-01-05

Published 16 January 2020 Immunofluorescence analysis of a melanoma tumor showing that B cells in B cell clusters express CXCR5, a marker for tertiary lymphoid structures. (Source: Göran Jönsson) Cancer patients responded better to immunotherapy and had a better prognosis if their melanoma tumours contained specific clusters of B cells, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/b-cells-linked-effective-cancer-immunotherapy - 2025-01-05

Published 27 January 2020 Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This yea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-01-05

Published 28 January 2020 Photo: Unsplash An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying data from a new satellite imaging system, the researchers also found that the biomass in tropical forests is decreasing. Vegetation fi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-01-05

Published 28 January 2020 Wenjing Yang The RISE Awards (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is a competition for students, aiming to showcase student talent in sustainability and innovation, and is organised by U21 (Universitas 21). All participating projects aim to contribute to attaining at least one of the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Students from 16 member universities compe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-wins-international-round-u21-rise-awards-0 - 2025-01-05