Published 29 January 2016 Kenichi Miharada's work with his team Department of Laboratory Medicine Lund, on bile acids was recently published in the Cell Stem Cell journal. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter A research group at Lund University has been able to show that bile acid is transferred from the mother to the foetus via the placenta to enable the foetus to produce blood stem cells. Bile acids are normal

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/bile-acid-supports-production-blood-stem-cells - 2025-07-03

Published 2 February 2016 New research findings support better understanding of the different types of cancer cells in, and their impact on, tumours. Photo: Kennet Ruona New research shows that a small minority of cancer cells in neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas contribute to the overall growth and metastasis of the tumour. This discovery was made by a research group at Lund University, in c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/minority-cancer-cells-affect-growth-and-metastasis-tumours - 2025-07-03

Published 3 February 2016 Likki-Lee speaking in the General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters, NYC Her interest in language took her all the way to the UN headquarters in New York City to take part in the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest. For Likki-Lee Pitzen it was a jaw-dropping experience and now she calls for other students to do the same. Likki-Lee Pitzen had just finished her Master's pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/representing-lund-university-un-general-assembly - 2025-07-03

Published 3 February 2016 Industrial Design student Bo Möller shows how easily their new alarm can be attached to the bag. Photo: C. Schubert Leave your bag unsupervised without running the risk of thieves stealing it? That could be the case as a unique idea of a small, high-tech alarm from Master's students at Lund University is now coming to life. “I was by myself on a beach in Mexico and had to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-invent-alarm-protects-your-unattended-bag - 2025-07-03

Published 8 February 2016 Osteologist Adam Boethius (fourth from the left) at his excavation in Blekinge, Sweden. Adam has found the oldest storage of fermentet fish indicating the Nordic prehistory started earlier than previously thought. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/signs-early-settlement-nordic-region-date-back-cradle-civilisation - 2025-07-03

Published 8 February 2016 Researcher Anne Nilsson cutting barley bread at her lab. Photo: Kennet Ruona A recent study from Lund University in Sweden shows that barley can rapidly improve people’s health by reducing blood sugar levels and the risk for diabetes. The secret lies in the special mixture of dietary fibres found in barley, which can also help reduce people’s appetite and risk for cardiov

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-barley-helps-improve-blood-sugar-levels-and-reduce-appetite - 2025-07-03

Published 12 February 2016 Thanks to an innovative energy-saving solar-based water purification technology, rural areas in Bangladesh are now able to access safe drinking water. Photo: K. M. Persson Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a water purification plant that provides clean water far beyond the reach of the electrical grid – thanks to solar cells. With the help of Nobel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-solar-cells-help-purify-water-remote-areas - 2025-07-03

Published 18 February 2016 Research shows former childhood cancer patients’ eye movement is affected by treatment. Photo: B. Brenneman Nowadays, the lives of the majority of all children with cancer can be spared. However, the cure for the disease comes with a price: some of the survivors will suffer long-term injury from the treatment. A study from Lund University in Sweden now shows that commonl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eye-movement-affected-former-childhood-cancer-patients - 2025-07-03

Published 22 February 2016 Research from Lund University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that sugar could in the future be used to discover malignant tumours. Photo: Melissa Wiese Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance tomography examinations of tumours. Malignant tumours show higher sugar consumption than surrounding tissue.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-sugar-detect-malignant-tumours - 2025-07-03

Published 22 February 2016 The Trombe wall ventilation system (to the left) has through a research project been modified to be used both for heating and cooling using renewable energy sources. Photo: Insaf Ben Othman Researcher Marwa Dabaieh from Lund University in Sweden has come up with a way to adapt the so-called Trombe wall – a passive solar building design from the 19th century – to not only

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-trombe-wall-now-used-both-cool-and-heat-buildings-using-renewable-energy-sources - 2025-07-03

Published 26 February 2016 Researchers can now show that a parallel computer utilising molecular motors can find correct solutions to a combinatorial problem, rapidly and energy-efficiently. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have utilised nanotechnology to create a biological computer that can solve certain mathematical problems far faster and more energy-efficiently than conventional elect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-nanotechnology-create-parallel-computers - 2025-07-03

Published 29 February 2016 Lars-Erik Wernersson hopes the new research project INSIGHT will help meet the increasing performance demands at millimetre-wave frequencies Improved radar image resolution and faster data transfer within 5G networks. These are some of the results that would be achieved by a new research project called INSIGHT, which is funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020 and coordin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-high-performance-radar-and-5g-communication - 2025-07-03

Published 3 March 2016 New research finds that the hormone ethinyl-estradiol, an active substance in many birth control pills, affects both fish behaviour and their genetics. Photo: B. Olsen A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows that hormones found in birth control pills alter the genes in fish, which can cause changes in their behaviour. The thesis also shows that nurse midwi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oestrogen-birth-control-pills-has-negative-impact-fish - 2025-07-03

Published 21 August 2023 The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden.   During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lect

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/rfs-2023-space-research-school - 2025-07-03

Published 12 December 2023  Back in 2001 the then Department of Astronomy moved from the old observatory at Svanelyckan (Stadsparken) to Sölvegatan 27.  Today it was time for the astronomers to move again.  Next time you want to visit the Division of Astronomy, we will be located in the A400 corridoor in the Physics building. Welcome.   

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/division-astrophysics-moves-a400 - 2025-07-03

Published 26 January 2024 The second ARRAKIHS consortium meeting was held in Lund in January. Progress of the mission study and the development of the project's instruments was discussed during this three day meeting.

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/second-arrakihs-consortium-meeting - 2025-07-03

By rebecca [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Rebecca Forsberg) - published 16 February 2024 The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new study, the researchers examined the dense nuclear star cluster shown in detail here. (Photo: ESO) Note: This PR was published by Lund University on 01/12/2023 Through analy

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-07-03

By anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Arnadottir) - published 10 March 2023 Rebecca Forsberg and Nic Borsato continue to host our astronomy podcast 'The Meridian'.    In this third season they interview prominent researchers, such as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, Ruth Pöttgen, a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Jud

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/third-season-meridian-astronomy-podcast-released - 2025-07-03

Published 11 June 2024 Image credit: Naciódigital.cat  We were pleased to hear that one of our own, Santi Roca Faberga, has been honored by his local community for his achievements.  By popular vote in his home town he was selected for the Garrotxí de l'Any award 2023.An article about the award ceremony was published (in Catalan) in the Garroxta newspaper:Article about Stanti Roca Faberga

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomer-honored-his-home-town - 2025-07-03

By anna [at] astro [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Arnadottir) - published 19 September 2024 Astronomers and astronomy students have been training and checking the telescopes in preparation for Culture night.  The forecast looks good and we hope to get lots of visitors that want to look through the telescopes and marvel at the Universe.Astronomy on Culture Night 2024: Kl 11.00 - 19.00 :  Ljusets mörkare s

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/gearing-culture-night - 2025-07-03