Published 10 October 2017 Liyana Yusof Spinach is a nutritious vegetable, but is not recommended for infants because of its nitrate content. Now a doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden presents a simple method capable of reducing the nitrate content by up to 70 per cent. Nitrate is a common nutrient for plants and is therefore also present in other leafy green vegetables, such as arugula

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-method-reduces-nitrate-content-spinach - 2025-01-19

Published 17 October 2017 Photo: Ajay Narendra How can a bee fly straight home in the middle of the night after a complicated route through thick vegetation in search of food? For the first time, researchers have been able to show what happens in the brain of the bee. The bee brain Bees and many other animals use what is known as optical flow to determine how fast they are going and how far they h

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-bees-find-their-way-home - 2025-01-19

Published 17 October 2017 Tasbacka danica (Photo: Johan Lindgren) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered well-preserved pigments and other biomolecules in a 54 million-year-old baby sea turtle. The molecular analyses show that the turtle’s shell contained pigments to protect it from harmful UV rays of the sun. The researchers investigated the microscopic and molecular contents of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/exceptionally-preserved-sea-turtle-reveals-ancient-sun-protection - 2025-01-19

Published 19 October 2017 Photo: Kristina Lindgärde In recent years, electric roads have emerged as potential alternatives to the heavy and expensive batteries currently needed in electric road vehicles. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an even smarter technology – that doesn’t require digging up stretches of road to install the system. Instead, a small conductive rail i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-electric-road-offers-flexible-charging - 2025-01-19

Published 20 October 2017 Food researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that consuming small amounts of chromium mixed with certain amino acids before eating is healthy. Why? Well, this mixture diluted in water suppresses the blood sugar spike that occurs when we eat. Now, they are hoping that the drink – which tastes like ordinary mineral water – will be able to compete with soft

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-drink-keeps-blood-sugar-check - 2025-01-19

Published 20 October 2017 Håkan Håkansson (Photo: Jenny Loftrup) A new online portal opening today at Lund University in Sweden makes a unique archive containing first-hand accounts from Nazi concentration camp survivors freely accessible to the general public. During World War II, Ravensbrück, north of Berlin in Germany, was a concentration camp mainly reserved for women and children. During the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/holocaust-survivors-stories-made-available-online - 2025-01-19

Published 23 October 2017 Map: Caroline Björnerås The iron concentration in lakes is increasing in many parts of northern Europe, including Sweden. This has been shown in a study in which researchers at Lund University in Sweden examined 23 years of data from 10 countries. High iron levels contribute to browner water; furthermore, iron binds environmental toxins such as lead and arsenic. The resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-study-more-iron-lakes-making-them-brown - 2025-01-19

Published 25 October 2017 Torgny Sunnerhagen and Magnus Rasmussen. (Photo: Tove Smeds) A risk assessment system developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows which patients, with a certain type of streptococcal bacteria in the blood, need to be examined for a heart valve infection – a serious condition requiring prolonged medical treatment. “Our assessment system can help reduce unne

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-helps-rule-out-heart-valve-infection - 2025-01-19

Published 30 October 2017 The designer, Charlotte Gyllenhammar, next to the sculpture she created. Charlotte is holding the Ekeby Meteorite, which inspired the work. Photo: D. Kovacevic The University’s new jubilee sculpture, created by Charlotte Gyllenhammar, was unveiled on Saturday 21 October, as part of LU’s 350th anniversary celebrations. The sculpture, Meteorite, is made of black-patinated b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fallen-meteorite-new-jubilee-sculpture-lundagard - 2025-01-19

Published 1 November 2017 The image illustrates where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur through accumulation of the β-amyloid protein. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have for the first time convincingly shown where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur. The discovery could potentially become significant to future Alzheimer’s research while contributing t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-shows-where-brain-earliest-signs-alzheimers-occur - 2025-01-19

Published 6 November 2017 Lucas S Kumosa and Jens Schouenborg (Photo: Tove Smeds) Researchers already know that gelatin-covered electrode implants cause less damage to brain tissue than electrodes with no gelatin coating. Researchers at the Neuronano Research Centre (NRC) at Lund University in Sweden have now shown that microglia, the brain’s cleansing cells, and the enzymes that the cells use in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gelatin-accelerates-healing-blood-brain-barrier-acute-brain-injury - 2025-01-19

Published 6 November 2017 Johan Agebjörn, Hanne Linder and Elia Psouni Postnatal depression among new mothers is a well-known phenomenon. Knowledge about depression in new fathers, however, is more limited. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that depression among new fathers may be more common than previously believed. There is also a major risk that it remains undetected using today

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/depressed-fathers-risk-not-getting-help - 2025-01-19

Published 7 November 2017 Helena Elding Larsson Can insulin taken as an infant in small doses together with food render the immune system used to insulin and thus prevent type 1 diabetes? Can a gluten-free diet and probiotics prevent celiac disease (so called gluten intolerance)? These questions will be asked by two separate studies that are being planned at Lund University in Sweden. A new compre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newborn-babies-be-screened-studies-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease-gluten-intolerance - 2025-01-19

Published 10 November 2017 Photo: Anders Hedenström Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have compared how much energy bats use when flying, depending on whether they have large or small ears. Large ears increase air resistance, meaning that long-eared bats are forced to expend more energy than species with small ears. On the plus side, large ears generate more lift and provide better hearing.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/pros-and-cons-large-ears - 2025-01-19

Published 13 November 2017 Inside the vaacum chamber (Photo: Marcus Isinger) In a unique experiment, researchers have clocked how long it takes for an electron to be emitted from an atom. The result is 0.000 000 000 000 000 02 seconds, or 20 billionths of a billionth of a second. The researchers’ stopwatch consists of extremely short laser pulses. Hopefully, the results will help to provide new in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unbelievable-speed-electron-emission-atom - 2025-01-19

Published 15 November 2017 A super-efficient quantum computer – one of the hopes associated with the quantum technology investment. Connecting many quantum bits is relatively easy, but controlling quantum states and errors is challenging. Photo: Johan Bodell/Chalmers. Developments in quantum technology and artificial intelligence, AI, are predicted to transform research, as well as business and so

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/billions-be-invested-ai-and-quantum-technology - 2025-01-19

Published 15 November 2017 Niklas Nielsen (Photo: Kennet Ruona) 70 hospitals in 15 countries, 1 900 patients and three years of study – this is the framework for the world’s largest clinical study of cardiac arrest, TTM2, which is about to begin. The study is run by Niklas Nielsen, researcher at the Centre for Cardiac Arrest at Lund University and medical consultant at the general hospital in Hels

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/largest-study-cardiac-arrest-world - 2025-01-19

Published 16 November 2017 Photo: Viktor Nilsson-Örtman For the first time, researchers have proposed the hypothesis that animals that live in climate zones at a safe distance from both the poles as well as the tropics have the most to gain from acclimating to changes in climate. The findings contradict previous research in the field. Acclimation means the ability of both animals and plants to adj

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/species-north-are-more-vulnerable-climate-change - 2025-01-19

Published 22 November 2017 David Bryder (Photo: Gunnar Menander) A research group at Lund University in Sweden has found that when the HLF (hepatic leukemia factor) gene –which is expressed in immature blood cells – does not shut down on time, we are unable to develop a functional long-term immune system. This could be a very early stage of leukemia. Blood stem cells give rise to all of our blood

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hlf-gene-controls-generation-our-long-term-immune-system - 2025-01-19

Published 23 November 2017 Mikael Lund Chemistry researchers have now discovered how certain small biomolecules attach to one another. The researchers’ study also overturns the standard picture – particles with the same electrical charge appear to be drawn together and not vice versa. The results may be important for the development of new drugs. A number of chemistry researchers from several inst

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/highly-charged-molecules-behave-paradoxically - 2025-01-19