Published 11 November 2021 Photo: Mostphotos A large study led by Lund University in Sweden has identified a protein in the blood that could predict type 2 diabetes up to nineteen years before the onset of the disease. The study is published in Nature Communications. Type 2 diabetes is a growing global epidemic, with 6% of the world population suffering from the disease. However, the risk of devel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-biomarker-identified-predicts-type-2-diabetes-many-years-diagnosis - 2025-05-05

Published 11 November 2021 Photo: Billy Jones While many negotiators think the ongoing United Nations’ climate conference COP26 in Glasgow should already be considered successful due to global decisions having been made, Greta Thunberg and other climate activists argue that the summit is primarily a PR event which has excluded many groups from the negotiations. Doctoral student of ethnology at Lun

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/cop26-climate-conference-inclusion-focus-observer - 2025-05-05

Published 22 November 2021 Researcher Emma Nilsson has analysed microRNA in fat biopsies from identical twins with and without type 2 diabetes. (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Identical twins share the same DNA, but one twin can suffer from type 2 diabetes while the other twin does not develop the disease. A study led by Lund University in Sweden has now discovered that there are differences in gene activit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twin-study-finds-type-2-diabetes-clues-epigenetic-changes - 2025-05-05

Published 23 November 2021 Photo: Shamit Soneji Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now revolutionised the way this data is analysed – by using 3D video gaming technology. The study is published in the journal iScience. A

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-virtual-reality-tool-be-used-fight-against-disease - 2025-05-05

Published 30 November 2021 Sida has signed a four-year agreement with Lund University regarding commissioned education courses on innovation, transformation and resilience for sustainable development in Africa. Photo: James Wiseman Many developing countries are making progress, whereas others are stalling or falling behind. In the latter cases, transformation capacity needs to be reinforced to ena

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/focus-sustainable-development-new-sida-course-africa-and-lund - 2025-05-05

Published 1 December 2021 (Image: OHB) Researchers have developed a model that can calculate individual countries' carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning using observations from space. The new results could be put to use within the Earth observation programme Copernicus, when satellites will be sent into space in the coming years. At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world ag

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/satellites-enable-monitoring-co2-emissions - 2025-05-05

By fritzliselotte [at] gmail [dot] com (Liselotte Fritz) - published 1 December 2021 After a major development work where researchers and experts in urology, communication and IT have collaborated, Region Skåne landed Organized prostate cancer testing, OPT, 2020. Photo: iStockphoto With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care - 2025-05-05

Published 6 December 2021 Niels Koning and Daniel Strand (Photo: Johan Joelsson) A research team at Lund University in Sweden has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could pave the way for new types of drugs. The study is publis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-synthetic-code-rare-molecules-sought-after-drug-development - 2025-05-05

Published 8 December 2021 “I completely believe that nanotechnology is one of the absolutely best tools we have to solve several of our sustainability challenges" according to Christina Isaxon researcher at LTH and NanoLund, a strategic research area. Photo: Kennet Ruona Christina Isaxon has always been interested in how small particles in the air affect our health. As society’s use of nanomateria

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/better-knowledge-needed-about-handling-nanoparticles - 2025-05-05

Published 9 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos A large population study from Lund University in Sweden has shown that more sustainable dietary habits are linked to health benefits, such as a reduced risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease and cancer. The study is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “Our results indicate that dietary guidelines that are beneficial for

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/environmentally-sustainable-diet-linked-health-benefits - 2025-05-05

Published 10 December 2021 Vice-Chancellor Erik Renström. Photo by Kennet Ruona. Once again, we are now seeing an increase in the spread of infection, in particular in Europe; this week, the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced new recommendations to avoid crowding, among other things. We are still offering on-campus education but everyone is to avoid crowding and large gatherings. We are care

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/solving-problem-vaccination-certificates-international-researchers-and-students-vice-chancellors - 2025-05-05

Published 13 December 2021 Photo: Mostphotos Scientists at Lund University have discovered for the first time that it is possible to detect insect DNA in the air. Using air from three sites in Sweden, insect DNA from 85 species could be identified. This offers scope for exploring a whole new way to monitor terrestrial biodiversity. These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Bord

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skys-limit-using-airborne-dna-monitor-insect-biodiversity - 2025-05-05

Published 20 December 2021 The first virtual G20 summit took place on March 26th, 2020 During the pandemic, physical summits were replaced by Zoom meetings, and global political leaders had to quickly adjust. How did they visually convey their status in this new world of digital diplomacy? A new study from Lund University in Sweden analysed over 50 photos from the first virtual G20 meeting in 2020

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-politicians-project-their-status-virtual-meetings - 2025-05-05

Published 10 January 2022 For many years, a bottleneck in technological development has been how to get processors and memories to work faster together. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have presented a new solution integrating a memory cell with a processor, which enables much faster calculations, as they happen in the memory circuit itself. In an article in Nature Electronics, the r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enable-future-supercomputers - 2025-05-05

Published 10 January 2022 The Arrival Day for international students who are to begin their studies at Lund University in the spring of 2022 is Monday 10 January, 2022. All the events during the reception day and introductory weeks have been adapted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Lund University expects around 600 international students this spring. Just like the previous number of semesters during

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-arrival-day-lus-incoming-international-students - 2025-05-05

Published 11 January 2022 Pouya Movahed Rad Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have compared the effects of intravenous ketamine treatment with ECT treatment in severe depression. The results support the view that ketamine is a possible treatment, but also show that ECT treatment helps more people. In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a new treatment for depression, after studies have sh

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ect-more-effective-ketamine-severe-depression - 2025-05-05

Published 11 January 2022 Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino (Photo: Robert Olsson and private image) LU researchers Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant each, for their research on innovation and knowledge dynamics and automated vehicles respectively. The ERC Starting Grant is aimed at researchers in the early stages of their career, and scientifi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2025-05-05

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 13 January 2022 The border between Turkey in the north and Syria in the south has similar biophysical characteristics but shows a difference in vegetation greenness. Research at Lund University tries to find out why. Image from SentinelHub. To find out why so many people have left their farms in north-eastern Syria, phys

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/knowledge-about-climate-stress-could-counteract-conflicts - 2025-05-05

Published 17 January 2022 Pontus Nordenfelt and Wael Bahnan When we talk about antibodies against COVID-19, we tend to mean the so-called neutralising antibodies, that offer protection by blocking the virus from invading our cells. Now, a new study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that non-neutralising antibodies may also be important in providing protection against Covid. “Our results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/additional-antibodies-may-protect-against-covid - 2025-05-05

Published 19 January 2022 Photo: Michael Erhardsson, Mostphotos Extreme poverty is still an urgent issue around the world. Four universities have initiated a new research school on sustainable development and poverty reduction to address the challenge. The research school will be coordinated via Lund University. The new research school, which has been granted six million SEK from the Swedish Resea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-school-strengthens-focus-poverty-reduction - 2025-05-05