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Published 15 January 2018 Jorge Ruas (Photo: Ulf Sirborn, KI) Our muscles enable us to breathe, move and run. Exercise improves our health and can even prevent many diseases. “I think that the importance of muscle in our overall physiology has been underestimated”, says Jorge Ruas, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and recipient of the Leif C Groop award for outstanding diabete
Published 15 January 2018 Among the gene-modified plant types approved in the EU’s risk assessment, but nonetheless not allowed to be cultivated, are several types of maize (the maize in the photo is not a GM crop). Photo: David Stephansson. Even though the EU’s food safety authority, EFSA, has classified genetically modified (GM) crops as safe, several member states always vote against authorisat
Published 16 January 2018 Image: Talía Velasco-Hernández; graphical editing: Marco La Rosa, Daniel Tornero and Karolina Komorowska. The HLF gene is necessary for maintaining our blood stem cells in a resting state, which is crucial for ensuring normal blood production. This has been shown by a new research study from Lund University in Sweden published in Cell Reports. “The study confirms several
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hlf-gene-protects-blood-stem-cells-maintaining-them-resting-state - 2025-07-09
Published 18 January 2018 Photo: Julia M I Barth Researchers have for the first time determined that hybridization between two bird species can give rise to several novel and fully functional hybrid genomic combinations. This could potentially be because hybrid species emerged through independent hybridisation events between the same parent species on different islands. Swedish and Norwegian resea
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hybridization-can-give-rise-different-genome-combinations - 2025-07-09
Published 18 January 2018 Photo:Emma Hammarlund and Sofie Mohlin Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key. A transdisciplinary and international team, from Lund University in Sweden and University of
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/novel-hypothesis-why-animals-diversified-earth - 2025-07-09
Published 22 January 2018 We are currently experiencing technical problems sending emails from Lund University email accounts to Microsoft’s free email services. This mainly applies to Hotmail, Outlook and Live email addresses, but it may also apply to other email services. If you are trying to contact us from such an email account and have not received a reply after several days, it may be that o
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/problems-sending-emails-lu-email-accounts-microsoft-email-services - 2025-07-09
Published 22 January 2018 Researchers have long wondered how our cells navigate inside the body. Two new studies, in which Lund University researcher Pontus Nordenfelt has participated, have now demonstrated that the cells use molecular force from within to steer themselves in a certain direction. This knowledge may be of great significance in the development of new drugs. Pontus Nordenfelt, resea
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-cells-are-able-turn - 2025-07-09
Published 23 January 2018 Photo: Nicholas Loubere Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a w
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/assessing-40-years-reform-and-opening-china-conference - 2025-07-09
Published 25 January 2018 Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Last autumn, the unique Ravensbrück Archive was opened to the general public as well as to researchers. Now requests are flooding in from all over the world to the archive in Lund, Sweden. “We are touched by the response”, says Håkan Håkansson at the University Library. Saturday 27 January is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. Just ove
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/thousands-visitors-search-ravensbruck-archive-information - 2025-07-09
Published 29 January 2018 Certain microorganisms are used to stimulate cultivated plants’ growth and disease resistance. Sometimes such bio-fertilisers works well, sometimes not. Now, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, are to study the exact requirements for improving the growth of sugar beet. If they succeed, biological fertilisers of crops will provide more benefits and bigger harvests. In
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-optimise-sugar-beet-bio-fertilisers - 2025-07-09
Published 1 February 2018 This nanowire is three micrometres long and connected to two rectangular metal contacts. Image: Lert Chayanun. Researcher Jesper Wallentin at the Department of Physics at Lund University in Sweden has received a grant of approximately SEK 15 million for a research project on the ability of nanowires to act as detectors for X-ray radiation. If successfully developed, this
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/physicist-awarded-millions-research-x-rays-using-nanowires - 2025-07-09
Published 5 February 2018 Colourful clutter of both distant galaxies and foregrounded stars in our own galaxy. Stephan’s Quintet can be seen in the right-hand corner. Photo: CFHT, Pierre-Alain Duc (Obs. De Strasbourg) & Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA Saclay/Obs. De Paris). Astronomers have managed to take unusually colourful images of a group of galaxies using a telescope in Hawaii. The photos revea
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colourful-photo-reveals-cannibalism-galaxy-cluster - 2025-07-09
Published 5 February 2018 Gisela Lilja (Photo: Roger Lundholm) A major international study shows that if cardiac arrest patients are treated like heart attack patients only, this will potentially have negative consequences on their rehabilitation and return to working life. These patients often lack follow-up of the injuries they may have suffered to the brain in connection with their cardiac arre
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/inadequate-follow-many-cardiac-arrest-patients - 2025-07-09
Published 6 February 2018 Photo: Niclas Burenhult A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been given the name Jedek. “Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture”, says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/listen-unknown-language-discovered-southeast-asia - 2025-07-09
Published 9 February 2018 Karin Lindkvist (Photo: Tove Smeds) The Novo Nordisk Foundation recently made the announcement to grant DKK 225 million to Lund University for the construction and operation of MicroMAX, a new beamline for the MAX IV research facility in Lund, Sweden. The beamline will become one of the world’s strongest protein microscopes and an important tool for researchers studying p
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/millions-invested-new-beamline-max-iv - 2025-07-09
Published 8 February 2018 Photo: Mikael Risedal Sweden is trending right now, with cultural concepts such as “lagom” (just enough) and “fika” (coffee break) selling everything from books to fashion. The nation is often seen as a social democratic model country, where people are egalitarian, wealthy and happy. As Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of the Swedish multinational furniture retailer IKEA, rece
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-ikeas-founder-exported-certain-image-sweden-frugality-fika - 2025-07-09
Published 9 February 2018 Chemistry professor Kenneth Wärnmark at Lund University in Sweden has been awarded SEK 35 million for a research project about using iron molecules to develop solar cells and solar fuel. The grant is aimed at producing cheaper and more environmentally-friendly materials that can capture the energy of the sun. Kenneth Wärnmark has for many years conducted research on the p
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/major-investment-more-environmentally-friendly-solar-energy - 2025-07-09
Published 19 February 2018 Photo: Chris Collingridge Nocturnal animals can use the stars and the Milky Way to find their way during the darkest hours. While animal navigation is studied all over the world, some of the leading researchers are based at Lund University in Sweden. In a recent article they sum up the research so far and give their thoughts on challenges to come. There are advantages to
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/starry-sky-shows-nocturnal-animals-way - 2025-07-09
Published 21 February 2018 Illustration: Derek Logan The enzyme that produces DNA building blocks plays an important role when cells divide. In a new study, researchers have discovered for the first time that the so-called master switch of the enzyme can change locations - while still performing the same task. Regardless of whether you are human, a worm or a bacterium, all beings need to create ne
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unexpected-discovery-about-essential-enzyme - 2025-07-09
Published 23 February 2018 Marju Orho-Melander (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new link between gut bacteria and obesity. They found that certain amino acids in our blood can be connected to both obesity and the composition of the gut microbiome. We know less about the significance of our gut bacteria than what many books and magazines on the subjec
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-link-between-gut-bacteria-and-obesity - 2025-07-09
