By cheryl [dot] sjostrom [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Cheryl Sjöström) - published 22 October 2024 Summer may be extending longer into the season, but we still have changed the name of our annual meetings in September to Autumn meetings. And this year autumn showed itself in full effect when ClimBEco students arrived by train from the north and the south into Helsingborg on 25-27 September and gett

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/reflections-climbeco-autumn-meeting-2024 - 2025-04-27

Published 22 August 2014 A new study from Lund University has, for the first time, reconstructed solar activity during the last ice age. The study shows that the regional climate is influenced by the sun and offers opportunities to better predict future climate conditions in certain regions. Raimund Muscheler is co-author of the article and is an active researcher within MERGE and BECC. For the fi

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/suns-activity-influences-natural-climate-change - 2025-04-27

Published 31 January 2025 El Niño has a history of at least 250 million years. Photo: Zhengyao Lu Modeling experiments show Pacific warm and cold patches persisted even when continents were in different places. Until now, it has been unclear how far back in time the climate phenomenon extends. But in a new study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (P

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-changing-el-nino-oscillation-least-250-million-years-old - 2025-04-27

Published 18 March 2025 Satellite image of Lake Yamzho Yumco in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China – one of the lakes that, thanks to minimal human impact, has not undergone major colour changes. (Photo: Google Earth) Over the last 40 years, the majority of the world’s lakes have changed colour, according to a new study. The research team analysed 32 million satellite observations from over 67,0

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/lakes-worldwide-are-changing-colour-possibly-due-human-impact - 2025-04-27

Published 16 September 2014 On October 6-8 MERGE researchers and PhD students will have the opportunity to meet in Kalmar. Welcome to the MERGE Autumn Meeting in Kalmar 6-8 October 2014.We are looking forward to meet all MERGE researchers in Kalmar for three exciting days of presentations and discussions on our MERGE science. We are now at the end of the first 5-year period of MERGE and at the doo

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/welcome-merge-autumn-meeting-2014 - 2025-04-27

Published 9 April 2025 The locations of the fossil coral synthesis used in this study (magenta circles). The ERSST monthly SSTA variability (s.d.) during 1854–2023 ce is represented by the shaded colours. The black box is for the Niño 3.4 region. El Niño, a climate troublemaker, has long been one of the largest drivers of variability in the global climate. Every few years, the tropical eastern Pac

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/consecutive-el-ninos-are-happening-more-often-and-result-more-devastating-new-research - 2025-04-27

By anna_maria [dot] erling [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Maria Erling) - published 10 April 2025 Hyltemossa celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Photo: ICOS Sweden On 15 May 2025, scientists, engineers, and environmental stakeholders will gather to celebrate a milestone for Swedish climate research: the 10-year anniversary of ICOS Sweden’s national greenhouse gas observation network; a decade of

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/celebrating-decade-data-icos-sweden-marks-milestone-climate-science - 2025-04-27

By jonna [dot] ahlin [at] nateko [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonna Åhlin) - published 14 April 2025 As Europe moves toward climate neutrality by 2050, forests are at the center of the transition. The ForestPaths project brings together researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders across the continent to co-design forest-based policy pathways that balance climate goals, biodiversity, and economic needs. A re

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/charting-smarter-forest-futures-how-forestpaths-rethinking-forest-policy-europe - 2025-04-27

Published 29 September 2014 Read the MERGE 2014 self-evaluation here. Some of the headlines of the report are: Research output, Strategic value for the society and the business sector and Collaboration. The MERGE self-evaluation is one step of the total evaluation of the strategic research environments. Before summer the final MERGE self-evaluation was sent in, answering 20 questions about the per

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-self-evaluation-2014 - 2025-04-27

Published 8 October 2014 Kalmar Castle and MERGE researchers in the evening sun. On 6-8 October, the MERGE autumn meeting of 2014 was held in Kalmar. The three interesting days focused on the future possibilities of research within MERGE and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we h

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/merge-autumn-meeting-presentations-and-summary - 2025-04-27

Published 5 November 2014 During the past week, 350 delegates from 120 countries have gathered in Copenhagen, to go through and come to a common conclusion about the state of knowledge on climate change. The result was finalized as a synthesis report which states that the human influence on the climate system is clear and recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are the highest in histor

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/ipcc-synthesis-report-provides-common-conclusion-about-state-knowledge-climate-change - 2025-04-27

Published 1 December 2014 We would like to welcome Franziska Aemisegger, who will be a MERGE guest researcher for the coming two years. For the coming two years, Franziska Aemisegger will be a MERGE guest researcher with a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (SNSF). In her current research she is studying land-atmosphere interactions in the midlatitude water cycle from a weather systems p

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/new-guest-researcher-franziska-aemisegger - 2025-04-27

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 11 februari 2021 Låt oss presentera Hamilton – en robot med kapacitet att analysera flera olika antikroppar samtidigt – och mycket snabbare än vad som tidigare varit möjligt. Titta in i roboten och se hur det ser ut när Hamilton arbetar. Film: Rasmus Bennet Det finns bara tre robotar med den specifika antikroppstekniken

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/hamilton-i-forskningens-tjanst - 2025-04-27

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 19 mars 2021 Jul- och nyårshelgen blev inte som Caroline Nilsson tänkt sig. Istället för att vara ledig från jobbet som forskningssjuksköterska i POInT-studien, fick hon rycka in och förstärka en covidavdelning på Skånes universitetssjukhus i Malmö.   Tillbaka på forskningsmottagningen efter sex veckor på en covidavdeln

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/forskningssjukskoterskan-caroline-om-tiden-pa-en-covidavdelning - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 6 april 2021 Artikel i tidskriften Forskning & Framsteg om forskningen som lett fram till bland annat Point-studien. I en ny studie visar svenska forskare i ett internationellt forskarlag att felaktig aktivering av de immunceller som kallas NK-celler är ett tidigt steg när barn drabbas av typ 1-diabetes. Frågan är nu om sjukdomsutvecklingen går att förhindra. Läs hela artikeln på Forskn

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/felaktigt-aktiverade-immunceller-bakom-diabetes-hos-barn - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 16 april 2021 Läs artikeln av vår dietist Carin Andrén Aronson på nutritionsfakta.se, en webbplats om mat och hälsa. Typ 1-diabetes och celiaki (glutenintolerans) är två kroniska sjukdomar där det egna immunförsvaret bryter ner kroppsegna organ. Bägge dessa autoimmuna sjukdomar är ärftliga och har gemensamma gener på kromosom 6. Högriskgener kopplade till typ 1-diabetes och celiaki finn

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/gluten-celiaki-och-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-nagot-samband - 2025-04-27

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 19 april 2021 Alexander Dahl är hemtam på studiemottagningen i Helsingborg. Här i provtagningsrummet har han varit många gånger. Foto: Sara Liedholm 20-årige Alexander Dahl har deltagit i flera studier med syfte att förhindra typ 1-diabetes. Han har ätit glutenfritt, gjort glukosbelastningar och lämnat otaliga blodprove

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/sista-besoket-efter-20-ar - 2025-04-27

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 3 juli 2021 Följ med in i labbet och se vad som händer med blodproverna som lämnas av barnen på mottagningen. Länk till filmen på YouTube   Medverkande: Evelyn Tekum Amboh, molekylärbiolog och Malin Goldman Tsubarah, biomedicinsk analytiker Filmen är producerad av Sara Liedholm     

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/video-vad-hander-med-dina-blodprover-i-point-studien - 2025-04-27

Av sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - publicerad 3 juli 2021 Screeningprovet som togs efter förlossningen analyseras för specifika riskgener. Hur går det till? Följ med in i labben i Sverige och Tyskland.   Medverkande: Ida Jönsson och Dorota Lacki, biomedicinska analytiker Filmen är producerad av Sara Liedholm

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/video-fran-samtycke-och-riskbedomning-till-medverkan-i-vara-studier - 2025-04-27

Publicerad 5 maj 2021 Visste du att maj månad är "celiac awareness month" runt om i världen? Därför uppmärksammar vi nu våra celiaki-studier lite extra. Läs om Daniel Agardh som leder PreCiSe-studien och som tror på ett vaccin mot sjukdomen.   Forskande barnläkare tror på vaccin mot celiaki   Läs artikeln på lu.se Artikeln är tidigare publicerad i Lunds universitets magasin, LUM  

https://www.gppad.lu.se/artikel/celiaki-uppmarksammas-internationellt - 2025-04-27