Published 2 February 2016 New research findings support better understanding of the different types of cancer cells in, and their impact on, tumours. Photo: Kennet Ruona New research shows that a small minority of cancer cells in neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas contribute to the overall growth and metastasis of the tumour. This discovery was made by a research group at Lund University, in c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/minority-cancer-cells-affect-growth-and-metastasis-tumours - 2025-05-15

Published 3 February 2016 Likki-Lee speaking in the General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters, NYC Her interest in language took her all the way to the UN headquarters in New York City to take part in the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest. For Likki-Lee Pitzen it was a jaw-dropping experience and now she calls for other students to do the same. Likki-Lee Pitzen had just finished her Master's pr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/representing-lund-university-un-general-assembly - 2025-05-15

Published 3 February 2016 Industrial Design student Bo Möller shows how easily their new alarm can be attached to the bag. Photo: C. Schubert Leave your bag unsupervised without running the risk of thieves stealing it? That could be the case as a unique idea of a small, high-tech alarm from Master's students at Lund University is now coming to life. “I was by myself on a beach in Mexico and had to

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-students-invent-alarm-protects-your-unattended-bag - 2025-05-15

Published 8 February 2016 Osteologist Adam Boethius (fourth from the left) at his excavation in Blekinge, Sweden. Adam has found the oldest storage of fermentet fish indicating the Nordic prehistory started earlier than previously thought. The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/signs-early-settlement-nordic-region-date-back-cradle-civilisation - 2025-05-15

Published 8 February 2016 Researcher Anne Nilsson cutting barley bread at her lab. Photo: Kennet Ruona A recent study from Lund University in Sweden shows that barley can rapidly improve people’s health by reducing blood sugar levels and the risk for diabetes. The secret lies in the special mixture of dietary fibres found in barley, which can also help reduce people’s appetite and risk for cardiov

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-barley-helps-improve-blood-sugar-levels-and-reduce-appetite - 2025-05-15

Published 12 February 2016 Thanks to an innovative energy-saving solar-based water purification technology, rural areas in Bangladesh are now able to access safe drinking water. Photo: K. M. Persson Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a water purification plant that provides clean water far beyond the reach of the electrical grid – thanks to solar cells. With the help of Nobel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-solar-cells-help-purify-water-remote-areas - 2025-05-15

Published 18 February 2016 Research shows former childhood cancer patients’ eye movement is affected by treatment. Photo: B. Brenneman Nowadays, the lives of the majority of all children with cancer can be spared. However, the cure for the disease comes with a price: some of the survivors will suffer long-term injury from the treatment. A study from Lund University in Sweden now shows that commonl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eye-movement-affected-former-childhood-cancer-patients - 2025-05-15

Published 22 February 2016 Research from Lund University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine shows that sugar could in the future be used to discover malignant tumours. Photo: Melissa Wiese Ordinary sugar could become a contrast agent of the future for use in magnetic resonance tomography examinations of tumours. Malignant tumours show higher sugar consumption than surrounding tissue.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-sugar-detect-malignant-tumours - 2025-05-15

Published 22 February 2016 The Trombe wall ventilation system (to the left) has through a research project been modified to be used both for heating and cooling using renewable energy sources. Photo: Insaf Ben Othman Researcher Marwa Dabaieh from Lund University in Sweden has come up with a way to adapt the so-called Trombe wall – a passive solar building design from the 19th century – to not only

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/adapted-trombe-wall-now-used-both-cool-and-heat-buildings-using-renewable-energy-sources - 2025-05-15

Published 26 February 2016 Researchers can now show that a parallel computer utilising molecular motors can find correct solutions to a combinatorial problem, rapidly and energy-efficiently. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have utilised nanotechnology to create a biological computer that can solve certain mathematical problems far faster and more energy-efficiently than conventional elect

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/using-nanotechnology-create-parallel-computers - 2025-05-15

Published 29 February 2016 Lars-Erik Wernersson hopes the new research project INSIGHT will help meet the increasing performance demands at millimetre-wave frequencies Improved radar image resolution and faster data transfer within 5G networks. These are some of the results that would be achieved by a new research project called INSIGHT, which is funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020 and coordin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanotechnology-high-performance-radar-and-5g-communication - 2025-05-15

Published 3 March 2016 New research finds that the hormone ethinyl-estradiol, an active substance in many birth control pills, affects both fish behaviour and their genetics. Photo: B. Olsen A new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows that hormones found in birth control pills alter the genes in fish, which can cause changes in their behaviour. The thesis also shows that nurse midwi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oestrogen-birth-control-pills-has-negative-impact-fish - 2025-05-15

Published 16 October 2014 Grazing camel in the Kordofan region in Sudan The need for food, animal feed and fuel in the Sahel belt is growing year on year, but supply is not increasing at the same rate. New figures from 22 countries indicate falling availability of resources per capita and a continued risk of famine in areas with low ‘primary production’ from plants. Rising temperatures present an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/shrinking-resource-margins-sahel-region-africa - 2025-05-15

Published 21 October 2014 Kristian Gerner The following Lund University academics are available for commentary and analysis, in light of recent news coverage regarding alleged activity in the Stockholm archipelago:  Mi LennhagPhD student, Department of Political Science, Lund UniversitySwedish foreign and defence policy, Swedish national security as it relates to post-Soviet region, general post-S

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/experts-swedish-and-russian-national-security-policy - 2025-05-15

Published 22 October 2014 Bright colours appear on a fruit fly’s transparent wings against a dark background as a result of light refraction. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have now demonstrated that females choose a mate based on the males’ hidden wing colours. A male courting a female (Photo: Qinyang Li) “Our experiment shows that this newly-discovered trait is important in female ch

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/secret-wing-colours-attract-female-fruit-flies - 2025-05-15

Published 23 October 2014 Lesedi Lebogang A ’super detector’ that can track the traces of a lump of sugar in the Baltic Sea – that was the starting point for a potentially life-saving technique developed at Lund University in Sweden. The method detects toxic algae blooms in drinking water. WATCH: New technique can trace toxic algae in drinking waterA biosensor recently developed at Lund University

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/super-detector-tracks-toxic-algae - 2025-05-15

Published 3 November 2014 Mapillary, an app developed by Lund University senior lecturer Jan Erik Solem, crowdsources street view images. The company has now joined forces with OpenStreetMap, the world’s biggest free, editable map service. VIDEO: Mapillary – watch how it works  If you live in a small town, or have booked a vacation in a remote location, you’ve probably encountered this problem: th

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mapillary-puts-your-photos-map - 2025-05-15

Published 3 November 2014 Roland Paulsen Why do people slack off at work? Last year it was revealed that 20 workers at a big Swedish mining company had been slacking off at work by taking turns clocking each other in and out. The scheme had been going on for several years - supposedly costing the company millions of dollars. How is such major slacking possible? In his new book “Empty Labor: Idlene

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/book-release-empty-labor-idleness-and-workplace-resistance - 2025-05-15

Published 4 November 2014 Joel Wåreus/imagebank.sweden.se People with lactose intolerance are at lower risk of suffering from lung, breast and ovarian cancers, according to a new study by researchers at Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden. ”We found that people with lactose intolerance, who typically consume low amounts of milk and other dairy products, have a reduced risk of lung, breast a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lactose-intolerants-lower-risk-certain-cancers-study - 2025-05-15

Published 5 November 2014 Nélida Leiva Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that sugar beets produce haemoglobin. They now hope that this haemoglobin could serve as a blood substitute – a substance that is currently in short supply.   Watch on YouTube: How to produce haemoglobin from sugar beets “Previously, it has been presumed that certain plants produce this iron protein onl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sugar-beets-could-become-blood-substitute - 2025-05-15