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Can a reduced intake of gluten during childhood affect the development of coeliac disease (gluten intolerance)? Researchers at Lund University will investigate this question in the new study GRAIN (Gluten Reduction After INfancy and the risk of celiac disease). – We’ve seen in previous studies that the amount of gluten you eat plays a role in the risk of getting sick. In GRAIN, we want to see if w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-gluten-reduced-diet-first-years-life-prevent-celiac-disease - 2025-10-01

Hello there, Pål Stenmark, Professor of Structural Biochemistry at the Department of Experimental Medical Science. You’ve just been honoured with the 2021 Lindblomska Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for you discovery of a new botox poison that wards off malaria mosquitoes! Can you really use botox against mosquitoes? – The botox used by humans doesn’t work on insects, but we’ve no

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/botox-ward-mosquitoes - 2025-10-01

Charlotte Ling, Professor of Epigenetics at Lund University, is receiving DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for a research project relating to epigenetics and type 2 diabetes. She is one of a total of 38 research group leaders who are receiving funding through the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Research Leader Programme. The project is called “Pancreatic islet dysfunction and epigenetic m

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-million-dollar-grant-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-10-01

A new app will make it easier for people on sick leave due to anxiety and depression to get back to work. In the project mWorks, Professor Ulrika Bejerholm and her research colleagues focus on what strengths, abilities and new strategies can help people on sick leave successfully transition back to working life. The research team wishes to move away from the current focus on diagnosis and disabili

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-app-help-people-return-work-following-sick-leave-due-mental-illness - 2025-10-01

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed an algorithm that combines data from a simple blood test and brief memory tests, to predict with great accuracy who will develop Alzheimer's disease in the future. The findings are published in Nature Medicine. Approximately 20-30% of patients with Alzheimer's disease are wrongly diagnosed within specialist healthcare, and diagnostic work-up

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/simple-diagnostic-tool-predicts-individual-risk-alzheimers - 2025-10-01

Many people feel mentally unwell during the pandemic, especially, it seems, those who are already exposed to socio-economic inequalities. But who really suffers the most when restrictions, loneliness, depression have become commonplace? Researchers from Lund University have tried to find out in a cross-sectional study where young adults are identified as a particularly vulnerable group. After more

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/how-vulnerable-are-we-pandemic-and-who-actually-hardest-hit - 2025-10-01

Children rarely get seriously ill in COVID-19. However, they can suffer from troublesome secondary diseases, the most serious being MIS-C, a hyper-inflammatory condition that often requires intensive care. In Skåne, around 30 children have been affected by MIS-C. Skåne University Hospital is leading the work to care for the affected children and research is also underway on the disease. MIS-C is a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-skane-university-hospital-shed-light-mis-c - 2025-10-01

An international group of clinicians and scientists, including MIT and Lund University , have analysed how individual genetic changes affect the heart muscle. The researchers have created a new computer tool to integrate genomic and clinical data to enhance medical and surgical decisions to support future therapies for patients with inherited heart disease. The new research was published in NPJ Ge

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/computer-method-help-predict-outcomes-and-tailor-treatments-heart-patients - 2025-10-01

Cardiovascular and lung disease increase the risk of complications in COVID-19. Therefore, the Heart-Lung Foundation has granted SEK 3.1 million for five research projects at Lund University that will contribute to more knowledge about the effects of COVID-19. One of the researchers, Jonas Erjefält, professor in Medical Inflammation, has been granted SEK 1 million for mapping of immunological dise

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/five-lund-researchers-received-grants-deepen-knowledge-about-effects-covid-19 - 2025-10-01

Newborn babies are already being screened for mutations and genetic tests help families with hereditary breast cancer. Genomic-driven precision medicine (GDPM) is an emerging approach for disease treatment. Around 30 Swedish researchers suggest a direction forward in a review article in Journal of Internal Medicine (JIM). "At the moment newborns are screened for a small number of mutations. In the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/precision-medicine-emerging-approach-complex-diseases - 2025-10-01

To counter the effects of antibiotics, bacteria constantly evolve resistance mechanisms. In order to develop new antibiotics that could overcome the resistance, it´s essential to understand its workings. Using so-called cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) researchers at Lund and Hamburg universities have uncovered the molecular details of an important antibiotic resistance mechanism. This is t

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winning-microscopy-technique-uncovers-mechanisms-bacterial-antibiotics-resistance - 2025-10-01

First-born children are at lower risk of heart attack and stroke than their siblings – provided that the number of siblings does not exceed three; then it is the other way around. And people without siblings have a higher risk of heart attack and stroke later in life compared to those who have siblings. These are among the findings of a new population study from Lund University published in BMJ Op

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/number-siblings-may-be-linked-risk-cardiovascular-disease - 2025-10-01

Up to 20 percent of Swedish couples have difficulty having children. Now a new research project will seek to find the answer to the riddle of infertility. In a group effort to combat involuntary childlessness, researchers within the Öresund collaboration ReproUnion are creating a register that includes 5,000 Swedish and Danish childless couples. The biobank is named ReproUnion Biobank and Infertil

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/reprounion-joins-forces-combat-involuntary-childlessness-creating-biobank - 2025-10-01

Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine. This strategic recruitment is part of Lund University's efforts to develop new research using neutron and synchrotron light techniques - and is an important step to maximise the pote

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess - 2025-10-01

Europe's largest respiratory society, ERS, has awarded its winners for 2021. By doing so the society wishes to recognise the achievements of leaders in the field of respiratory medicine. The Mid-Career Gold Medal in Asthma for 2021 went to EMV´s own Lena Uller, Professor in Immunology. It´s a very prestigious award! Warm congrats, Lena! ­– Thank you so much, I feel overwhelmed. Especially now afte

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-gold-medal-respiratory-medicine-awarded-professor-lund - 2025-10-01

Children who had autoantibodies before falling ill with type 1 diabetes have also had an imbalance in their intestinal flora, previous research shows. In a new study conducted within the framework of a European research network, researchers at Lund University and Region Skåne will investigate whether the ingestion of probiotics from early birth can prevent the development of type 1 diabetes in chi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-study-can-probiotics-prevent-type-1-diabetes - 2025-10-01

Congratulations, Katarina Steding-Ehrenborg, Docent at Lund University! You’re one of six sports researchers who will take part in a two-year development program in which the Swedish Olympic Committee is now investing. What will the investment mean for you? – The support from the SOC means that we can carry out long-term studies on how strenuous exercise affects the heart and thus help make sports

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-researcher-joins-olympic-offensive - 2025-10-01

During September and October, schoolchildren, seniors and other interested parties are examining the obstacles that exist in Swedish housing. Their tools in this work are a ruler and a mobile app. The Housing Experiment (Bostadsförsöket) research project is a collaboration between the ForskarFredag science festival and researchers at Lund University. *This is a press release originally sent from V

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/help-researchers-measure-your-home - 2025-10-01

The international Alzheimer day takes place on 21 September. About 100 000 people in Sweden suffer from Alzheimer, a disease which also affect many family members and relatives. At the same time promising research brings new hope, with many of the international recognized findings originating from Lund University. Since the beginning of 2021 the strategic research area MultPark has presented new a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/bigger-picture-alzheimers-disease - 2025-10-01

Congratulations Anna Blom, Professor of Medical Protein Chemistry at Lund University and the recipient of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Berzelius Medal in Gold 2021 for innovative research in the field of medical chemistry. How does it feel to receive this prestigious award? – It’s a great honour for me to be awarded the Berzelius Medal and for our research to receive such notice. I began my p

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/anna-blom-receives-2021-berzelius-medal-advances-medical-chemistry - 2025-10-01