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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 a
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Unive
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-payments-farmers-fail-deliver-competitiveness-and-sustainability - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 you
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/where-do-you-want-work-test-your-ideas-about-european-labour-market - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 perfor
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 rese
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-blood-sucking-insects-find-dark-coated-cattle-dark - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 G
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-create-virtual-reality-model-milky-way - 2026-07-09
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 - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gluten-riddle-searching-triggers-coeliac-disease - 2026-07-09
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 - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/life-under-surface-live-broadcast - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 r
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/death-receptors-new-markers-type-2-diabetes-and-cardiovascular-disease - 2026-07-09
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 - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. With a ceremony inside the main University building, Lund University’s 350th anniversary has now officially begun, and the extensive jubilee programme packed with more than 250 public events over the next 13 months has been released. The jubilee will last from 19 December 2016 until 28 January 2018, and these dates ar
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-celebrates-350-years - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 i
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/santa-claus-should-live-northern-sweden - 2026-07-09
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 significant role in the development of the human brain as well as in
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/viruses-genome-important-our-brain - 2026-07-09
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. The archaeological mater
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/twelve-new-tombs-discovered-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/five-km-wide-celestial-body-created-europes-largest-impact-structure - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 c
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/children-are-disproportionately-affected-online-advertising - 2026-07-09
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 pluripotent stem cell-like cells, was awa
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/first-archive-ips-cells-parkinsons-patients - 2026-07-09
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-solvents-affect-skin - 2026-07-09
