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The more times metastasised melanoma has mutated and the patient’s immune system has been activated against the tumour – the better the chances of survival after immunotherapy. This is what emerges from a research collaboration between Lund University in Sweden and Herlev university hospital in Denmark. The findings are now published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. Using the body’
Over 40 billion euro is given annually to European agriculture as direct payments under the Common Agricultural Policy. Yet, the policy fails to deliver on what EU citizens are promised. This is a key message from new research by AgriFood Economics Centre and Centre for Environmental and Climate Research at Lund University. Direct payments are area-based income support under the Common Agricultura
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-payments-farmers-fail-deliver-competitiveness-and-sustainability - 2025-11-05
How successful is Sweden when it comes to innovation? How good are we at integrating people who were born abroad? And what is it like in Great Britain and in Spain? A research project about integration, job quality and employment in the European labour market is launching an interactive map with which you can test your own hypotheses.In the project, around 20 researchers are studying the underlyin
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-you-want-work-test-your-ideas-about-european-labour-market - 2025-11-05
Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perform surgery. But, of course, this is not enough. A major change is needed. “Even if
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-11-05
Last year, biologist Susanne Åkesson at Lund University in Sweden, together with researchers in Hungary, received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded to them for their research showing that dark-coated horses suffer more from blood-sucking horseflies compared to their white counterparts. Now, the researchers know why animals with a dark, smooth coat are particularly vulnerable - e
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-blood-sucking-insects-find-dark-coated-cattle-dark - 2025-11-05
Using data from over a billion stars, a research team at Lund University in Sweden are developing an interactive 3D model of the Milky Way galaxy. This could enable new types of discoveries that aren’t possible with current tools - perhaps even unraveling how the Milky Way was formed. The data being used is from the Gaia satellite that was launched in 2013. It orbits the Earth and collects data fr
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-create-virtual-reality-model-milky-way - 2025-11-05
Capsules for transporting drugs, knee injuries that are really osteoarthritis, skin cells reprogrammed into nerve cells, variations in our DNA affecting the production of blood cells, and the urban sharing economy as a potential solution to our sustainability challenges. These are the research areas which have been awarded ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) in the 201
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grants-awarded-lund-researchers - 2025-11-05
A new trend among the food-conscious is to adopt a gluten-free diet. However, according to LU researchers studying coeliac disease (gluten intolerance), the trend is not solely a good thing as it may blur the line between illness and health. “The fact that patients with coeliac disease now have more food products to choose from is, of course, a good thing. What is less good is that some people cut
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2025-11-05
Amniotic fluid, the protective liquid surrounding an unborn baby, is discarded as medical waste during caesarean section deliveries. However, there is increasing evidence that this fluid is a source of valuable biological material, including stem cells with the potential for use in cell therapy and regenerative medicine. A team of scientists and clinicians at Lund University in Sweden have now dev
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/amniotic-fluid-rich-source-stem-cells-can-now-be-harvested - 2025-11-05
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have invented new systems to study the life of microorganisms in the ground. Without any digging, the researchers are able use microchips to see and analyse an invisible world that is filled with more species than any other ecosystem. Under our feet there is life and movement. In a spoonful of soil there are more microorganisms (fungi and bacteria) than the
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/life-under-surface-live-broadcast - 2025-11-05
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found that the presence of death receptors in the blood can be used to directly measure the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes. “We see that people with known risk factors such as high blood sugar and high blood fats also have heightened death receptor levels”, says Professor Jan Nilsson who led the study. Death receptors ar
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/death-receptors-new-markers-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-11-05
New research aims to identify and characterise resistant lung cancer stem cells, and develop a model to customise drugs that can eradicate all cancer cells of an individual patient. This is the goal of researcher Mattias Magnusson, who received SEK 6 million from the Sjöberg Foundation to conduct this research project. Every year, close to 4 000 people in Sweden develop lung cancer. It is the fift
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/towards-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer - 2025-11-05
As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) in the US, have investigated one such alternative. “We were able to show that a tailor-made protein which previously worked against various kinds of Gram-negative b
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2025-11-05
The social stigma surrounding HIV is still strong in many parts of the world. Children living with HIV in Ethiopia are at high risk of receiving inadequate treatment – or no treatment at all – on account of deeply rooted prejudice. The most considerable risk can be found among very small children, who do not receive proper treatment right away. Ethiopia is one of the 35 countries identified by the
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/social-stigma-obstacle-successful-treatment-children-hiv-ethiopia - 2025-11-05
The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show. In a new study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have found that birds use multiple – each one simple yet effective - methods to control their speed in the air and compensate for tailwind, headwind and sidewind. Last year, biologists Anders Hedenström and Susanne Åkesson showed that the flight speed o
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flight-speed-birds-more-complex-previously-thought - 2025-11-05
The impact of soil microbes on carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere; the transformation of knowledge as it moves between different contexts; zooming in on the Achilles’ tendon to a cellular and molecular level to discover how weight should be placed on a torn tendon in order for it to heal. These are the research projects that Lund University’s three new Wallenberg Academy Fellows will dig d
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-new-wallenberg-academy-fellows-lund-university - 2025-11-05
The Swedish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Gebel el Silsila, Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered four intact child burials at the site. The findings could provide important clues into family life at the ancient quarry. The burials further support the theory that there was a permanent community at the site, as opposed to a temporary workforce. The
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-intact-child-burials-found-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-11-05
An astrophysicist who has developed new knowledge about cardiac function, a cardiovascular expert who stimulated research in general medicine, an internationally leading researcher in autoimmune diseases, and a neuroscientist who is deeply engaged in society: these are the new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine, who will be formally recognised in Lund Cathedral on 25 may 2018. Professor E
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine-2018 - 2025-11-05
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean without oxygen has gone up more than four-fold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. “Sufficient oxygen in bottom waters is necessary for a well-functioning healthy ecosystem,” says Professor Daniel Conley at Lund University working together with an internatio
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oxygen-worlds-oceans-declining-scientists-reveal-dangers-and-solutions - 2025-11-05
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 diabetes research. According to the motivation, in Ruas’ work, “a met
