Published 24 February 2015 Niels-Bjarne Woods Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a previously unknown effect of vitamin A in human embryonic development. Their findings show that vitamin A affects the formation of blood cells. The signal molecule, retinoic acid, is a product of vitamin A which helps to instruct how different types of tissue are to be formed in the growing emb

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/previously-unknown-effect-vitamin-identified - 2025-05-01

Published 24 February 2015 A new research study has shed light on the underground interaction between tree roots and fungi. In order to understand how this important symbiosis came about, an international team of researchers have sequenced the genomes of different fungi that live underground. The study shows that in the course of evolution, the symbiotic fungi have lost many genes present in their

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lost-genes-make-fungi-dependent-trees - 2025-05-01

Published 26 February 2015 Åke Lernmark New research shows that it is possible to predict the development of type 1 diabetes. By measuring the presence of autoantibodies in the blood, it is possible to detect whether the immune system has begun to break down the body’s own insulin cells. “In the TEDDY study we have found that autoantibodies often appear during the first few years of life”, said Pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/early-signs-young-children-predict-type-1-diabetes - 2025-05-01

Published 2 March 2015 Researchers from institutions including Lund University have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis. In a new study, they have successfully tracked the electrons’ rapid transit through a light-converting molecule. The ultimate aim of the present study is to find a way to make fuel from water using sunlight. This is what photosynthesis doe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/supersonic-electrons-could-produce-future-solar-fuel - 2025-05-01

Published 6 March 2015 Tomas Deierborg (Photo: Yiyi Yang) Inflammation is a natural reaction of the body’s immune system to an aggressor or an injury, but if the inflammatory response is too strong it becomes harmful. Inflammatory processes occur in the brain in conjunction with stroke and neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Researchers from Lund University and Karol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-key-players-brain-inflammation - 2025-05-01

Published 6 March 2015 Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Education, Inna Sovsun, meets international students. Photo: GUNNAR MENANDER “Being new in the government of Ukraine is like learning to ride a bike that is broken, while someone is throwing stones at you, and you are trying to fix the bike at the same time”, said Inna Sovsun, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Education and a former Lund U

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ukraine-first-deputy-minister-education-back-lund-day - 2025-05-01

Published 9 March 2015 Jonas Hafström (Photo: Pawel Flato) Meet Jonas Hafström, a lawyer with a background in the diplomatic service, including as Swedish ambassador to the USA. For the past year he has led government trade delegations around the world and helped to coach Swedish embassy staff in countries with strong economic growth. Welcome to Lund University as the new chair of the University B

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-welcomes-new-chair-university-board - 2025-05-01

Published 10 March 2015 Established ways of measuring carbon emissions can sometimes give misleading feedback on how national policies affect global emissions. In some cases, countries are even rewarded for policies that increase global emissions, and punished for policies that contribute to reducing them. “We have developed a new method that provides policy makers with more useful information, in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-carbon-accounting-method-proposed - 2025-05-01

Published 13 March 2015 Rouzbeh Parsi Lund University Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi on the importance of a nuclear deal with Iran: WATCH INTERVIEWQ: Why is this the right time for a deal?A: The Obama administration understands, especially after the election of President Rouhani in June 2013, that there is a negotiation partner who is credible and sincere in trying to solve this issue.            Iran

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/time-us-iran-deal-now-says-iran-scholar - 2025-05-01

Published 18 March 2015 Our opinions are affected by what our eyes are focusing on in the same instant we make moral decisions. Researchers at Lund University and other institutions have managed to influence people’s responses to questions such as “is murder defensible?” by tracking their eye movements. When the participants had looked at a randomly pre-selected response long enough, they were ask

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/moral-decisions-can-be-influenced-eye-tracking - 2025-05-01

Published 9 April 2014 Using magnetically controlled nanoparticles to force tumour cells to ‘self-destruct’ sounds like science fiction, but could be a future part of cancer treatment, according to research from Lund University in Sweden. Watch on YouTube: How rotating nanoparticles target cancer cells  “The clever thing about the technique is that we can target selected cells without harming surr

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Published 30 March 2015 Every year since 1999, the Master’s students in Industrial Design at Lund University have done what most design students around the world can only dream of – go to NASA in Houston, Texas, USA and study at the Johnson Space Center. There they design products for an extreme environment – namely, space. “The missions to Mars that the students from Lund have been studying will

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-students-collaborate-nasa - 2025-05-01

Published 1 April 2015 Taye Balcha A new tuberculosis diagnostic method tailored for low-income countries could save lives, detecting nearly 50% more TB cases among HIV-infected people, according to a new study from Lund University. Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death among HIV positive individuals, even if antiretroviral treatment  (ART) is available. Low-income countries have the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/improved-test-method-tuberculosis-could-save-lives-among-hiv-infected-people-africa - 2025-05-01

Published 2 April 2015 Miriam Preis/imagebank.sweden.se Consumption of high-fat yoghurt and cheese are linked to a reduction in the risk of type 2 diabetes by as much as a fifth, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. High meat consumption, on the other hand, is linked to a higher risk. The findings, which have been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, are in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-fat-dairy-products-linked-reduced-type-2-diabetes-risk - 2025-05-01

Published 8 April 2015 Morten Kjaerum Morten Kjaerum is the new director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, having taken over the reins of the Institute on 1 April 2015. Kjaerum most recently was the director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in Vienna. During his seven years at the agency, he is credited for having brought FRA into the foreground o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-director-raoul-wallenberg-institute-human-rights - 2025-05-01

Published 9 April 2015 Five Lund University students have been declared to be some of the world's brightest business minds, landing a top six position in the prestigious Hult Prize competition in London. Five university friends from different backgrounds, nationalities and study programmes came together in a cold December to crack a fairly hard nut – solving one of the planet's biggest challenges

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-students-make-top-six-hult-prize-competition - 2025-05-01

Published 17 April 2015 Tobias Cronberg (Photo: Roger Lundholm) Half of all patients who survive a cardiac arrest experience problems with cognitive functions such as memory and attention. This has been shown by a major international study led from Lund University. Surprisingly, however, a control group comprising heart attack patients had largely the same level of problems. This suggests that it

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cognitive-problems-are-common-after-cardiac-arrest - 2025-05-01

Published 17 April 2015 NASA/JPL-Caltech Researchers can now explain how asteroids are formed. According to a new study led by Lund University in Sweden, our own planet also has its origins in the same process, a cosmic ocean of millimetre-sized particles that orbited the young sun. WATCH VIDEO STORYFragments of asteroids regularly land on Earth as meteorites. If you examine such a find, you can s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-millimetre-sized-stones-formed-our-planet - 2025-05-01

Published 21 April 2015 This week around 40 Swedish researchers are visiting Korea to meet Korean colleagues in a series of interdisciplinary round table discussions within the framework of the two-day Korea–Sweden Excellence seminar, to reinforce existing contacts and to develop new ones. Issues regarding creativity and innovation, environment and welfare are high on the agenda. The seminar coinc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sweden-reinforce-its-research-contacts-south-korea - 2025-05-01

Published 21 April 2015 Photo: Helena Wahlman/imagebank.sweden.se A number of research studies have shown that coffee helps to protect against breast cancer. A new study led by Lund University, has confirmed that coffee inhibits the growth of tumours and reduces the risk of recurrence in women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with the drug tamoxifen. The study, which is a fol

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-detailed-findings-confirm-coffee-protects-against-breast-cancer-recurrence - 2025-05-01