Published 6 September 2023 Participants in the programme ‘Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement’ together with teacher Matthew Scott and Lord Mayor of Kampala. In a spirit of collaboration and commitment, Lund University's programme 'Human Rights and Gender Equality in Climate and Disaster Displacement' has reached its culmination. The programme's final workshop, he

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/supporting-african-cities-addressing-climate-related-displacement - 2025-04-01

Published 6 September 2023 Photo: Hermann Knuewer When humans are ill, we tend to be less active. This also applies to wild animals, but so far, it has not been known how long the reduced activity lasts or which activities are affected the most. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds' activity decreases for up to three weeks when they become ill - something that could mean th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/disease-affects-blackbirds-more-previously-thought - 2025-04-01

Published 13 September 2023 (Photo montage: Logo by Financial Times, photo by Charlotte Carlberg Bärg.) Lund University School of Economics and Management has done it again! The school has been ranked #44 in the world in the Financial Times' prestigious annual ranking of 100 Master’s programmes in Management. This marks a climb of 13 spots compared with last year. Lund University's Master’s progra

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-climbs-even-higher-financial-times-ranking - 2025-04-01

Published 13 September 2023 Illustration: Johanna Rydeman Thousands of people could be spared from a hip fracture each year if a new method to identify the risk of osteoporotic fractures were to be introduced in healthcare. This is the view of the researchers at Lund University in Sweden who are behind a new 3D-simulation method. The results were recently published in the Journal of Bone and Miner

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-offers-hope-fewer-fractures - 2025-04-01

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 15 September 2023 EU's 2022 textile strategy is predicted to revolutionise the fashion and textile industry, forcing the sector to reassess its existing fast fashion model and explore new, more sustainable business strategies. The UNEXPECTED event that took place 1 June in Lund gathered unique and diverse minds and o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/innovation-happens-edges-0 - 2025-04-01

Published 19 September 2023 Photo: iStock/Gab13 Is it possible that a single biomarker can detect all types of diseases related to dopamine deficiency in the brain? Yes, that's what a research group in Lund is discovering. "We have observed that an enzyme in cerebrospinal fluid and in blood is a useful marker for identifying all types of Parkinson's-related diseases with high accuracy," says Oskar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-blood-marker-can-identify-parkinsonian-diseases - 2025-04-01

Published 22 September 2023 Photo: Viiru Pesonen/Wikimedia Commons One result of climate change is that spring is arriving earlier. However, migratory birds are not keeping up with these developments and arrive too late for the peak in food availability when it is time for breeding. By getting the birds to fly a little further north, researchers in Lund, Sweden, and the Netherlands have observed t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/migratory-birds-can-be-taught-adjust-climate-change - 2025-04-01

Published 27 September 2023 Photo: Hielko van der Hoorn Past cycles of climate change, along with human exploitation, have led to only small and isolated stocks of Atlantic walrus remaining. The current population is at high risk of the same issues affecting them severely, according to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden. Today, the last remaining stocks of Atlantic walrus are more at dan

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/atlantic-walrus-more-vulnerable-ever-arctic-warming - 2025-04-01

Published 29 September 2023 Photo: iStock/choja Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups, however not much is understood about how and why the levels of the blood group molecules differ between one person to another. This can be important for blood transfusion safety. Now a research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a toolbox that f

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-bioinfomatics-pipeline-solves-50-year-old-blood-group-puzzle - 2025-04-01

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 3 October 2023 Photo: Pixabay If we can understand how and why light and matter behave as they do, we are one step closer to solving some of the most fundamental problems in physics. Finding the answers to these questions drives Ville Maisi, Associate Professor of Solid States Physics at NanoLund. As long as he can remember he

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/understanding-behaviour-light-and-matter-key-future-technologies - 2025-04-01

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 4 October 2023 At the Multipark Café, Tomas Björklund explained the complexity of the brain to an interested audience. Photo: Bodil Malmström In today's scientific world, microscopic images have become a powerful resource for research. With access to advanced microscopes, researchers can now create unique images of s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/making-invisible-visible-magic-microscopic-images - 2025-04-01

Published 4 October 2023 Anne is met by cheers and joy from colleagues and students after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz on Tuesday. “It feels absolutely incredible. Fantastic! I am very proud”, she says. Anne L

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-awarded-nobel-prize-physics - 2025-04-01

Published 9 October 2023 Photo: Flockine/Pixabay Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to "clean up" their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2025-04-01

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 9 October 2023 Climate change and modern forestry methods result in more forest fires. Photo: iStockphoto All particles that reach the atmosphere cause different chemical reactions. Particles come partly from natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and forest fires, and partly from pollution and emissions. Aerosol res

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increase-forest-fires-may-damage-crucial-ozone-layer - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 5 december 2018 Träning är den del av behandlingen vid typ 1-diabetes. Men vad ska man tänka på när man tränar? Vad och när ska man äta? Överläkare Tore Vigård och dietist Maria Malmgren från ungdomsmedicinska kliniken vid Skånes universitetssjukhus delar med sig av sin kunskap. Hur lyckas man med blodsockerbalansen när man tränar och har typ 1-diabetes? Föreläsningen är en del av ett s

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/video-hur-lyckas-man-med-blodsockerbalansen-nar-man-tranar-och-har-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 3 december 2018 Vad vet vi om vad som händer innan typ 1-diabetes bryter ut? Vilka triggers finns det? Går sjukdomen att bota? Hör professor Åke Lernmark, Lunds universitet, berätta om forskningen om typ 1-diabetes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sdFJL-PHLI Föreläsningen är en del av ett seminarium på temat "hopp" arrangerat av Endokrinologiska kliniken, Skånes universitetssjukhus.Ins

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/video-sa-triggas-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-hopp-om-bot - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 30 november 2018 Tänk att slippa sticka sig flera gånger om dagen med insulininjektioner. Tänk att istället andas in insulinet. För tio år sedan verkade det som en sanning. Då lanserade läkemedelsbolaget Pfizer "Exubera", ett insulin som skulle inhaleras. Men sagan blev kort, bara ett år efter lanseringen 2006 drog Pfizer till mångas förvåning tillbaka insulinet från marknaden. I en ny

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/att-andas-insulinet-istallet-att-spruta - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 28 november 2018 Örebroforskare har identifierat tidiga förändringar i ämnesomsättningen hos barn som senare utvecklar typ 1-diabetes – ett viktigt steg för att kunna förebygga sjukdomen. Detta är ett av flera forskningsresultat som presenterades på Nordic Metabolomics Conference. – Vi har identifierat tidiga förändringar när det gäller ämnesomsättningen av fett som påverkar immunsystem

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forandringar-i-amnesomsattningen-paverkar-immunforsvaret - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 26 november 2018 Flera studier har undersökt och funnit ett starkt samband mellan diabetes och demens. Den förhöjda risken att insjukna i en demenssjukdom gäller både vid typ 1 och typ 2 diabetes. En väsentlig del av risken utgörs av alltför höga blodsockervärden. I en studie från University of California, San Francisco, USA, analyserade forskarna sambandet mellan utdragna höga blodsock

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/langvariga-hoga-blodsockervarden-okar-risken-demens - 2025-04-01

Publicerad 23 november 2018 Barn som behandlas för fetma inom primärvård eller öppenvård har relativt goda chanser att stävja viktproblem även på några års sikt, visar en studie publicerad i Acta Paediatrica. – Det finns en attityd att fetma är så förskräckligt svårt att man måste skicka barnen till specialistklinik, ibland många mil bort. Men kompetensen finns ofta på närmare håll och då ökar cha

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/barn-med-fetma-kan-fa-bra-hjalp-inom-primarvarden - 2025-04-01