Published 20 June 2018 Both Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degrees at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University have been labelled as “success stories” by the European Commission. The Master’s programme in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) already received this label of quality last summer and the Master’s in Food Innovation and Product Design (FIPDes) recently received the same distinction from

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/two-joint-masters-programmes-engineering-are-labelled-success-stories - 2025-05-07

Published 21 June 2018 Bogong moth A major international study led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden has proven for the first time that certain nocturnally migrating insects can explore and navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. Until now, the ability to steer flight using an internal magnetic compass was only known in nocturnally migrating birds. WATCH: The incredible journey of t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-insects-also-migrate-using-earths-magnetic-field - 2025-05-07

Published 25 June 2018 The study provides a clearer idea of how molecules of this type, known as ion transporters, reduce the percentage of cancer stem cells in a cell population. A team of researchers at Lund University in Sweden has developed a fluorescent variant of a molecule that inhibits cancer stem cells. Capturing images of when the molecule enters a cell has enabled the researchers, using

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fluorescent-molecules-reveal-how-cancer-stem-cells-are-selectively-inhibited - 2025-05-07

Published 26 June 2018 Jan and Åsa Söderberg (Photo: Håkan Röjder) A prize worth SEK 1 million for outstanding and groundbreaking research, and a full day dedicated to popular science and interdisciplinary lectures in economics. This is the result of the generous donation from the Jan and Åsa Söderberg family to the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. “For several years,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-prize-lund-university-school-economics-and-management - 2025-05-07

Published 6 July 2018 Barrels used in the experiment (Photo: Gábor Horváth) Susanne Åkesson, a biologist at Lund University in Sweden, refutes the theory that zebras have striped fur to stay cool in the hot sun. That hypothesis is wrong, she and her colleagues show in a study recently published in Scientific Reports. There has been an ongoing discussion among researchers, dating back to Darwin, on

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/stripes-may-be-cool-they-dont-cool-zebras-down - 2025-05-07

Published 12 July 2018 Magnus Lindgren, District physician and researcher at the Centre for Primary Healthcare Research, Lund University/Region Skåne Heart failure is known to be more common in certain families but whether this familial transition is caused by genetic or lifestyle factors. By studying adoptees in relation to both their biological parents and adoptive parents, a new population stud

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-highlights-genetic-risk-heart-failure - 2025-05-07

Published 12 July 2018 Rick Kapur, John W. Semple and Johan Rebetz (Photo: Tove Smeds) Knowledge that the gastrointestinal flora affects both healthy physiological processes and various disease mechanisms has increased in recent years. A study conducted at Lund University in Sweden is now published in one of the leading haematology journals, Blood Advances, and reveals a previously unknown link be

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gastrointestinal-flora-culprit-severe-lung-damage-after-blood-transfusion - 2025-05-07

Published 16 July 2018 Martin L Olsson (Photo: Apelöga) Ever since the blood type was discovered in 1962, no one has been able to explain why some people become Xga positive while others are Xga negative. But now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have finally solved the mystery, and their study is being published in the scientific journal Blood. In case of a blood transfusion, it is import

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-crack-code-final-blood-group-system - 2025-05-07

Published 18 July 2018 Arctic climate change research relies on field measurements and samples that are too scarce, and patchy at best, according to a comprehensive review study from Lund University in Sweden. The researchers looked at thousands of scientific studies, and found that around 30% of cited studies were clustered around only two research stations in the vast Arctic region. The Arctic i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/scientists-lack-vital-knowledge-rapid-arctic-climate-change - 2025-05-07

Published 30 July 2018 Great tit (Photo: Johan Nilsson) Biologists at Lund University in Sweden have in a recent study shown that the great tit, a common European songbird, has a tremendous capacity for self-control. Up to now, such impulse control has been primarily associated with larger cognitively advanced animals with far larger brains than the great tit. According to the new results, the gre

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/great-tit-birds-have-much-impulse-control-chimpanzees - 2025-05-07

Published 22 December 2016 Santa’s home would logically be located in the small town of Jokkmokk in northern Sweden, according to researchers at Lund University in Sweden, who have used satellite images of the Earth to calculate the mean centre of the global population. WATCH VIDEO STORYThe results contradict the idea that Santa’s hometown is in Rovaniemi, Finland. In fact, the same calculation us

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2025-05-07

Published 12 January 2017 Johan Jakobsson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Over millions of years retroviruses have been incorporated into our human DNA, where they today make up almost 10 per cent of the total genome. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now discovered a mechanism through which these retroviruses may have an impact on gene expression. This means that they may have played a sign

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2025-05-07

Published 12 January 2017 The Swedish mission at Gebel el Silsila, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered 12 new tombs dating from the 18th Dynasty (Thutmosid period), including crypts cut into the rock, rock-cut tombs with one or two chambers ,niches possibly used for offering, a tomb containing multiple animal burials, and several juvenal burials, some intact

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-05-07

Published 13 January 2017 Shatter cone, Siljan (Photo: Sanna Alwmark) A celestial body with a diameter of five kilometres crashed into the Earth’s surface, causing the formation of the so-called Siljan Ring in Dalarna, Sweden. The original impact crater was approximately 60 kilometres in diameter and the bedrock was covered by a layer of sediments 2.5 km thick when the projectile struck, according

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2025-05-07

Published 16 January 2017 Nils Holmberg (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Children aged 9 are several times more sensitive to disruptive advertising than adults. This is shown by studies conducted at Lund University in Sweden, in which children’s eye movements were measured. Together with the Lund University Humanities Lab, media and communications researcher Nils Holmberg has developed a combination of me

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-are-disproportionately-affected-online-advertising - 2025-05-07

Published 17 January 2017 Laurent Roybon The Stem Cell Laboratory for CNS Disease Modeling (CSC Laboratory) in Lund, has created one of the largest iPSC biobanks from patients diagnosed with familial and idiopathic PD, and associated synucleionopathies. iPSCs are obtained by reprogramming patient’s somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells. This unique technique, which allows generating embryonic

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-archive-ips-cells-parkinsons-patients - 2025-05-07

Published 17 January 2017 Emma Sparr (Photo: Gunnar Menander) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that makes it possible to see how individual molecules from solvents in skin creams, medicated ointments and cleaning products affect and interact with the skin’s own molecules. In the study, the researchers have examined how molecules added to the skin through various liq

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-solvents-affect-skin - 2025-05-07

Published 19 January 2017 Jesper Fritz Previous research has shown that there may be a connection between daily physical education and improved study performance. A new extensive study from Lund University in Sweden has shown the same connection, but for boys in particular. The project involved several primary school classes in which the pupils participated in physical education on a daily basis,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/boys-more-physical-education-school-had-better-grades - 2025-05-07

Published 19 January 2017 Lund University is once again the most popular choice for international students wanting to study their Master’s degree in Sweden, with 1/3 of all applicants from the latest application round choosing Lund University programmes. Of the total 74,620 students who applied to autumn 2017 Master’s degree programmes at Swedish universities, 26,223 chose Lund University programm

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-once-again-top-choice-sweden-international-applicants - 2025-05-07

Published 23 January 2017 Zaal Kokaia Today, a stroke usually leads to permanent disability – but in the future, the stroke-injured brain could be reparable by replacing dead cells with new, healthy neurons, using transplantation. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have taken a step in that direction by showing that some neurons transplanted into the brains of stroke-injured rats were incorp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/transplanted-neurons-incorporated-stroke-injured-rat-brain - 2025-05-07