Published 6 October 2020 Karin Hansson and Daniel Bexell (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2025-03-14

Published 8 October 2020 Anders Rosengren (Image: Johan Wingborg) Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over 300 million peo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2025-03-14

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 October 2020 3D illustration of different pollen Is it possible that a tiny pollen dredged up from a European lake can hold answers about both our past and our future? Researchers at Lund University use pollen as old as 12 000 years to predict our future climate, and to study ecological and historical change. Researchers Es

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Published 13 October 2020 The doctoral students and co-authors of the article Hugo Laurell and David Busto prepare an experiment in the attosecond laboratory By using extremely short light pulses and coincidence technology, researchers from several Swedish universities have managed to follow the dynamic process when the electron's spin - its rotation around its own axis - controls how an atom abso

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/electron-spin-dynamics-studied-its-natural-time-scale - 2025-03-14

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 22 October 2020 A simple blood test with 90% accuracy that shows whether a patient has Alzheimer’s disease has floored the research community, which is calling it a gamechanger. Oskar Hansson, professor of neurology at Lund University and Skåne University Hospital, is leading the research team that has rapidly taken

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-type-blood-test-gives-more-reliable-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease - 2025-03-14

Published 22 October 2020 Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson The Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine at Lund University in Sweden has received major funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation – operational support worth SEK 150 million plus SEK 68 million for recruitment packages in data-driven life science. During the period 2014–2015, the foundation granted SEK 825 million to establish

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Published 29 October 2020 Large ships often run on heavy fuel oil, something that leads to pollution and considerable emissions. However, one promising alternative is building or converting engines to run on methanol instead. The Fastwater project led by Lund University in Sweden has received EUR 5 million from the EU to develop the new technology. In 2022, a pilot boat is expected to be launched.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/methanol-could-be-climate-neutral-option-shipping - 2025-03-14

Published 5 November 2020 An illustration of the molecular motor the project aims to build A new project that aims to build motors made of proteins has received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant, and will be coordinated by Lund University in Sweden. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed molecular machines, that is, molecules that convert light into energy, or

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-03-14

Published 10 November 2020 A banded demoiselle, one of the two species studied (Photo: Erik Svensson) Insects have difficulties handling the higher temperatures brought on by climate change, and might risk overheating. The ability to reproduce is also strongly affected by rising temperatures, even in northern areas of the world, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden. Insects cann

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-temperatures-threaten-survival-insects - 2025-03-14

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 11 November 2020 One clear change meant minimising the number of patient visits to the clinic – instead, physicians, nurses and patients met via telephone or video call. A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pand

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-03-14

Published 12 November 2020 Men perceive themselves as having less power in their private than in their public lives, a new study from Lund University has suggested. Furthermore, both men and women agree: power in your private life matters more than that in public life. Power is often associated with men who possess visible status and money. But it can also be exercised in one’s private life to ini

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/men-feel-less-powerful-their-private-lives - 2025-03-14

Published 17 November 2020 Artistic representation of how a dying star, a red giant, gradually loses its gas mass to the other star in a binary star system. The chain of events in the image is based on the research of the current study. Illustration: Joris Vos. The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a curre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2025-03-14

Published 19 November 2020 Martin Magnusson and Amra Jujic (Photo: Tove Gilvad) Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-03-14

Published 19 November 2020 One percent of the world’s population accounts for more than half of the carbon dioxide emissions from passenger air travel. Thus, there is good reason to view air travel in a new light. It is actually an elitist activity, rather than what the aviation industry would like us to believe – that everyone flies. This is claimed by Stefan Gössling at Lund University and Linna

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/one-percent-worlds-population-accounts-more-half-flying-emissions - 2025-03-14

Published 19 November 2020 Erik Renström (Photo: Kennet Ruona) The Government has appointed Erik Renström as the vice-chancellor of Lund University for the term of office 2021–2026. Renström, a physician and professor of experimental endocrinology, has extensive academic experience. He is currently the dean of Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine. “It feels very exciting and a little solemn to be

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erik-renstrom-be-vice-chancellor-lund-university - 2025-03-14

Published 25 November 2020 Johan Agorelius, Alexander Dontsios Holmkvist and Jens Schouenborg (Photo: Tove Smeds) A new method that slowly releases drugs locally in the brain has been developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The drug is encapsulated in nanoparticles and delivered to the brain tissue via flexible electrodes. The method has been tested on mice and published in the Jour

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanoparticles-deliver-drugs-brain - 2025-03-14

Published 25 November 2020 David Winge How do bees always find their way home, not to mention in a straight line? What is it about the insect brain that allows them to navigate so easily? Could we copy that function? A step in this direction has now been taken by a group of scientists in a project combining the fields of biology, physics, nanoscience and informatics. At first, the line looks like

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mimicking-navigation-insect-brain - 2025-03-14

Published 26 November 2020 Forest in Morzine, France. Photo by Guy Bowden on Unsplash. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/global-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2025-03-14

Published 30 November 2020 Oskar Hansson and Niklas Mattsson-Carlgren A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that validated biomarkers can reveal an individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Using a model that combines the levels of two specific proteins in the blood of those with mild memory impairment, the researchers are able to predict the risk of developing Alzheimer’s. T

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/app-predicts-risk-developing-alzheimers - 2025-03-14

Published 2 December 2020 Photo: Dylan Walters/Flickr Is Africa rising? That’s one of many questions covered in LUSEM’s newly launched open global online course (MOOC) – African development, from the past to the present. Taking on an economic history perspective of the continent, the course covers the past centuries – with an emphasis on the past hundred years. With more than two decades worth of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-launched-mooc-africas-development - 2025-03-14