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

Published 27 February 2018 Flagler Beach, Florida US cities facing sea level rise need to look beyond traditional strategies for managing issues such as critical erosion and coastal squeeze, according to new research from Lund University. Civil society initiatives must now play a crucial role in adapting society to climate change, the study argues. WATCH: Seaside community of Flagler Beach, Florid

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-sea-level-rise-urgently-requires-new-forms-decision-making-study - 2025-07-09

Published 2 March 2018 A completely new classification of diabetes which also predicts the risk of serious complications and provides treatment suggestions. We are now seeing the first results of ANDIS – a study covering all newly diagnosed diabetics in southern Sweden — published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. The major difference from today’s classification is that type 2 diabetes actua

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/paradigm-shift-diagnosis-diabetes - 2025-07-09

Published 6 March 2018 On a wild mountain slope of the Peruvian jungle, researcher Dan Metcalfe has strung up his huge plastic curtain. A researcher from Lund University in Sweden has managed to install a huge curtain in a remote cloud forest in South America. The aim is to study how these valuable forests are affected if clouds are elevated due to global warming. The world’s cloud forests are fac

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/giant-curtain-will-help-scientists-study-threats-against-cloud-forests - 2025-07-09

Published 7 March 2018 Gunnar Engström (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a new marker in the blood that is associated with an increased risk of heart failure. Surprisingly, the marker is not directly involved in how the heart functions, unlike most of the previously known markers. Instead, the new marker affects processes in the lymphatic system. Heart failu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/marker-involved-lymphatic-system-connected-heart-failure - 2025-07-09

Published 9 March 2018 My Andersson Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method that enables them to use donated brain tissue from people with epilepsy for 48 hours. Previously, the researchers only had 12 hours to test new treatments before the structure of the cells started to break down. The research has now been published in the journal Scientific Reports. In about one in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-increases-life-span-donated-brain-tissue - 2025-07-09

Published 12 March 2018 Women’s role in peace processes, and fluid boundaries between male and female in society and popular culture. These are topics researched by the new honorary doctors in social sciences – Jacqui True and Jack Halberstam – whose degrees will be conferred on 25 May in Lund Cathedral. Jacqui True is a professor of political science and international relations at Monash Universi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-experts-women-peace-processes-and-gender-shift - 2025-07-09

Published 12 March 2018 Kristian Pietras (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Approximately 10–15 per cent of breast cancer cases do not respond to treatment with hormone therapy, which means that they are more aggressive and often recur. An international research team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has uncovered a way to treat these aggressive tumours through manipulation of the connective tiss

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-treatment-aggressive-breast-cancer - 2025-07-09

Published 15 March 2018 Melvyn Davies (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Professor of Astronomy Melvyn Davies at Lund University discusses the legacy of renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. "He leaves the subject in a vibrant state", says Davies. Tell us about your research - what are you focusing on at the moment?Working with Ross Church and colleagues in the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, we

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-astrophysicist-legacy-stephen-hawking - 2025-07-09

Published 16 March 2018 Håkan Holm (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Social media provides a new environment that makes it possible to carefully edit the image you want to project of yourself. A study from Lund University in Sweden suggests that many people are prepared to pay to ”filter out” unfavorable information. Economists Håkan Holm and Margaret Samahita have investigated how we curate our social image

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2025-07-09

Published 19 March 2018 Fish bones (Photo: Blekinge Museum) New research at Lund University in Sweden can now show what Stone Age people actually ate in southern Scandinavia 10 000 years ago. The importance of fish in the diet has proven to be greater than expected. So, if you want to follow a Paleo diet - you should quite simply eat a lot of fish. Osteologists Adam Boethius and Torbjörn Ahlström

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-accounted-surprisingly-large-part-stone-age-diet - 2025-07-09

Published 19 March 2018 Jens Schouenborg, Bengt Ljungquist and Martin Garwicz Recent developments in neuroscience set high requirements for sophisticated data management, not least when implantable Brain Machine Interfaces are used to establish electronic communication between the brain’s nerve cells and computers. A new method developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden makes it possibl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-manages-and-stores-data-millions-nerve-cells-real-time - 2025-07-09

Published 22 March 2018 Elia Psouni A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that even children with limited physical disabilities are at risk of developing mental issues later in life. Girls and adolescents from socio-economically vulnerable families are at greatest risk. The study was published in the reputable journal PLOS ONE. With the help of national register data, Lund researchers c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-physical-disabilities-are-higher-risk-poor-mental-health - 2025-07-09

Published 22 March 2018 Ostrich chick (Photo: Elin Videvall) In her upcoming thesis at Lund University in Sweden, biologist Elin Videvall shows that the composition of gut bacteria in birds has a major impact on whether their offspring will survive their first three months. “My findings could be important for increasing survival rates”, she says. Microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gut-bacteria-can-mean-life-or-death-birds - 2025-07-09

Published 26 March 2018 The beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) Photo: Erik Svensson In a major study, biologists at Lund University in Sweden have studied the role of chance in whether a species survives or dies out locally. One possible consequence according to the researchers, is that although conservation initiatives can save endangered species, sometimes chance can override such efforts.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/chance-factor-survival-species - 2025-07-09

Published 3 April 2018 Rick Kapur (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) Today, transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is the leading cause of death following a blood transfusion. So far, it has not been treatable, but a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, Rick Kapur, has now discovered that an anti-inflammatory drug cures the disease in mice. For his achievement, he is awarded the International Soci

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-dangerous-blood-transfusion-related-disease - 2025-07-09

Published 4 April 2018 Photo: Fredrik Andreasson Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now show that nestlings pay a high price for regulating their body temperature: they grow less. Therefore, the recommendation when putting up a nest box should be to avoid hot, south-

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avoid-south-facing-birdhouses-nestlings-sake - 2025-07-09

Published 6 April 2018 Zebra finches (Photo: Atticus Pinzón-Rodríguez) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made a key discovery about the internal magnetic compass of birds. Biologists have identified a single protein without which birds probably would not be able to orient themselves using the Earth’s magnetic field. The receptors that sense the Earth’s magnetic field are probably locat

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-birds-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field - 2025-07-09

Published 6 April 2018 Sown flower strips of clover (Photo: Maj Rundlöf) Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assumed to ben

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2025-07-09

Published 6 April 2018 High-resolution electron microscopy images illustrate significant differences in cell size between a normal (left) and PUS7-deficient (PUS7-KO, right) human embryonic stem cell. Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function – and defective regulation of protein production is common in certain types of aggressive

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-vital-keeping-blood-stem-cells-functional-uncovered - 2025-07-09