By Pia [dot] romare [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Pia Romare) - published 11 April 2019 The forest trees can be refined into many other products that are now made of oil. But how big is the environmental impact? Photo: Shutterstock Living forests with diverse plants and animals, forests where you can hike, hunt or pick berries and mushrooms – will they still be there when the pressure on forestry pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/forest-under-strain-many-directions - 2025-05-07

Published 11 April 2019 A team of former Lund University students have developed a smart plant wall, that can be monitored via an app and therefore minimizes the amount of maintenance needed. The smart wall measures things like indoor temperature, humidity and water levels to make sure the plants are thriving - and therefore improving the indoor environment. Erik Wilson, a Lund University Master’s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-lund-university-students-develop-smart-living-plant-wall - 2025-05-07

By Noomi [dot] Egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 12 April 2019 More knowledge of how the climate affects agriculture and vice versa can provide important input into political decisions and legal frameworks, say the researchers in Lund. Photo: Shutterstock Currently, it can take weeks and even months to produce results on how the future climate could affect agriculture. Now,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-much-land-do-we-need-produce-enough-food-bioenergy-and-forest-new-digital-technology-provides - 2025-05-07

Published 12 April 2019 Madeleine Liljegren Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have together with American colleagues studied deceased patients who were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or frontotemporal dementia. They observed a correlation between certain proteins and dementia sufferers’ tendency to commit criminal acts. “This study is unique in that we studied deceased patients, somethi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/abnormal-proteins-correlate-criminal-behaviour-dementia - 2025-05-07

Published 17 April 2019 Salma Kikhia, a student at Master’s Program in Public Health at Lund University, will be awarded the title Global Swede at a ceremony at the Swedish Institute in May. Congratulations to Salma Kikhia, a student at the Master’s programme in Public Health at Lund University, who will be awarded the title Global Swede at a ceremony at the Swedish Institute in May. Salma Kikhia,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-student-named-global-swede-2019 - 2025-05-07

Published 23 April 2019 Niklas Mattsson (Photo: Björn Martinsson) A new study confirms that a simple blood test can reveal whether there is accelerating nerve cell damage in the brain. The researchers analysed neurofilament light protein (NFL) in blood samples from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Recently published in JAMA Neurology, the study suggests that the NFL concentration in the blood co

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-evidence-blood-tests-can-detect-risk-alzheimers - 2025-05-07

Published 23 April 2019 Mats E. Eriksson Professor Mats E. Eriksson of Lund University in Sweden is now publishing his second book in the somewhat unusual subject combination of geological fossils and heavy metal music. Researching microscopic fossils and attempting to reconstruct several hundred million-year-old ecosystems is Mats E. Eriksson’s day job as a professor of geology at Lund University

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/geology-professor-releases-new-book-about-heavy-metal - 2025-05-07

Published 23 April 2019 Charlotte Ling and Tina Rönn (Photos: Stig-Åke Jönsson and Sara Liedholm) In the past decade, knowledge of how lifestyle affects our genes, a research field called epigenetics, has grown exponentially. Researchers at Lund University have summarised the state of scientific knowledge within epigenetics linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes in a review article published in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-lifestyle-affects-our-genes - 2025-05-07

Published 2 August 2018 Great reed warbler (Photo: August Thomasson) A unique study from Lund University in Sweden has discovered for the first time that there is a genetic sexual conflict in the immune system in animals. In females, the variation in central genes of the immune system is too high, whereas in males, it is too low. The researchers argue that the conflict is linked to differences in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/differences-immune-responses-create-genetic-conflict-between-sexes - 2025-05-07

Published 6 August 2018 The red-backed shrike (Photo: Thomas Alerstam) A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that small birds migrating from Scandinavia to Africa in the autumn occasionally fly as high as 4 000 metres above sea level - probably adjusting their flight to take advantage of favourable winds and different wind layers. This is the first time that researchers have tracked how

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/small-birds-fly-high-altitudes-towards-africa - 2025-05-07

Published 7 August 2018 Martin Salö Children with allergies have a lower risk of developing complicated appendicitis, according to a new study from Lund University and Skåne University Hospital in Sweden. The findings, now published in JAMA Pediatrics, could pave the way for new diagnostic tools in the future. “In a study of all the children who underwent surgery for appendicitis in Lund, Sweden,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-between-appendicitis-and-allergies-discovered - 2025-05-07

Published 13 August 2018 Researchers have mapped how the body’s own peptides (here in orange/yellow) bind to a receptor complex to suppress infection/inflammation. (Image: Suppl Fig 12 Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05242-0) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, have in collaboration with colleagues in Copenhagen and Singapore, mapped how the body’s own peptides act to reduce

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/medicine-future-against-infection-and-inflammation - 2025-05-07

Published 15 August 2018 The cytoskeleton (in green) in a tumour cell. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a cytoskeleton which provides the structure for mitochondria, the cell’s energy producers. The skeleton is necessary for the function of the mitochondria, but the researchers also found that cancer cells utilise the skeleton to maintain their cellular respiratory ability

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-cytoskeleton-helps-cancer-cells-survive - 2025-05-07

Published 17 August 2018 (Image: Gunnar Menander) Do you eat a lot of chicken, pasta, cheese and oils? Or do you prefer yogurt and cereal, but stay away from coffee and meat? A unique population study from Lund University in Sweden has identified different food patterns - and found that some are healthier than others. The study did not look at specific foods and their effects, but rather at how di

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-healthy-your-food-pattern - 2025-05-07

Published 21 August 2018 Johan Jakobsson's research group is interested in how gene expression is regulated in the brain and how the process affects, for example, neurodegenerative diseases. They do this by studying miRNA's role in gene regulation (Illustration: Bengt Mattsson) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a direct link between the protein aggregation in nerve cells tha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/powerful-molecules-provide-new-findings-about-huntingtons-disease - 2025-05-07

Published 22 August 2018 The Vice-Chancellor and Australia’s Ambassador Jonathan Kenna sign the handover (photo: Jonas Andersson)Photo: Jonas Andersson Today, Lund University handed over the remains of an Aboriginal man to representatives of the Australian government’s Indigenous Repatriation Programme. The event in Lund was attended by Australia’s Ambassador Jonathan Kenna. A solemn ceremony was

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-returns-remains-australia - 2025-05-07

Published 22 August 2018 Astrocytes grown from embryonic stem cells (Photo: Isaac Canals) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a faster method to generate functional brain cells, called astrocytes, from embryonic stem cells. Astrocytes play a significant role in neurodegenerative diseases. The new method reduces the time required to produce the cells from months to two weeks, an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-grows-brain-cells-stem-cells-quickly-and-efficiently - 2025-05-07

Published 29 August 2018 Harris’s hawk (Photo: Simon Potier) In many cases it is the colour of the prey that helps predatory birds to detect, pursue and capture them. In a new study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden show that the Harris’s hawk has the best colour vision of all animals investigated to date – and in certain situations, even better than humans. The findings may help to protect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colour-vision-makes-birds-prey-successful-hunters - 2025-05-07

Published 3 September 2018 Cognitive scientists at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have demonstrated that experimentally induced changes in political attitudes can last over time. Notably, participants’ who verbally motivated these ”false attitudes” exhibited the largest changes. This is the first time a lasting effect of the choice blindness phenomenon has been observed. In th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/induced-changes-political-attitude-can-last-over-time - 2025-05-07

Published 7 September 2018 Bacteriophages inject their DNA into bacteria (Image: Alex Evilevitch och Ting Liu) The way viruses inject their genome in cells affects the course of infection. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, and the University of Illinois, USA, have shown that viruses that infect bacteria attack either in a synchronised or random fashion when injecting their DNA – something th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-determines-course-infection-discovered - 2025-05-07