Aleksander Giwercman, professor vid Lunds universitet samt överläkare vid SUS, Malmö och Amelie Stenqvist, PhD och lärare vid Lunds universitet samt specialistläkare inom gynekologi och obstetrik vid SUS i Malmö. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter För första gången har forskare kopplat specifika defekter i spermier till graviditetskomplikationer och negativ effekt på barnets hälsa. Studien från Lunds universite

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Studien är aktuell med tanke på Arbetsmiljöverkets senaste förslag att sänka gränsvärdet för sexvärt krom från 5 till 1 mikrogram per kubikmeter luft. Foto: iStock/posonsky Sveriges gränsvärde för sexvärt krom har varit oförändrat sedan 1996 och är högre än i flera andra länder. En forskningsstudie från Lunds universitet visar att även arbetare som exponeras för krom under det svenska gränsvärdet,

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/cellforandringar-aven-under-gransvardet-sexvart-krom - 2025-09-08

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Det är ett intensivt jobb att simultantolka föreläsningar. Och arbetet kräver mycket förberedelser. Cilla Riber Alm har tolkat hela läkar­programmet och har fått en hel del medicinska kunskaper på köpet. Foto: Kennet Ruona Allt fler studenter är i behov av särskilt stöd. En av dem är sociologistudenten Julia Grahn. Hon är döv och får teckenspråkstolkning under sin studietid. Cilla Riber Alm är en

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nar-utbildningen-blir-en-tolkningsfraga - 2025-09-08

Även Sverige drabbas i allt högre utsträckning av ovanligt intensiva oväder. Här en översvämmad lekplats i Landskrona i samband med ovädret Hans i augusti 2023. Bild: Therese Ek. Har du märkt att forskares svar på frågor om en särskild extremväderhändelse beror på klimatförändringen eller inte brukar lyda något i stil med “Det passar in i mönstret, men vi kan inte säga med säkerhet att just denna

https://www.lu.se/artikel/vaderattribution-klimatforskare-wilhelm-may-ger-oss-koll-pa-begreppet - 2025-09-08

Studien är aktuell med tanke på Arbetsmiljöverkets senaste förslag att sänka gränsvärdet för sexvärt krom från 5 till 1 mikrogram per kubikmeter luft. Foto: iStock/posonsky Sveriges gränsvärde för sexvärt krom har varit oförändrat sedan 1996 och är högre än i flera andra länder. En forskningsstudie från Lunds universitet visar att även arbetare som exponeras för krom under det svenska gränsvärdet,

https://www.lu.se/artikel/cellforandringar-aven-under-gransvardet-sexvart-krom - 2025-09-08

Irene Margrethe Kaltenborn In KHM1 gallery IreneMargrethe Kaltenborn´s MFA exhibition Choreographies towards loss set the stage for the audience to enter artworks which echoed loss and a void, full of wonderment and poetics. The gallery was dimly lit and kept minimal, leaving room for the viewer to enter the web of interconnectedness between animals, humans and nature.       What has the process b

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/mfa-student-interview-series-part-viii-irene-margrethe-kaltenborn-and-karolina-bergman-engman - 2025-09-07

The first session of outdoor pedagogics, to stimulate the children’s reflections and questions around their local environment, facilitated by the artist and pedagogue Jasmine Cederqvist. A unique collaboration between school children and researchers and students at LUCSUS, focusing on children’s thoughts and questions related to sustainable development, aims to contribute to the development of a f

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-collaboration-school-children-focuses-childrens-ideas-and-questions-sustainable-development - 2025-09-07

PhD students Carolina Buizza and Elin Arvidsson helped to make WCMM Fusion 2025 a reality. The WCMM Fireside Chat is a series of articles dedicated to showcasing the remarkable work of researchers within and around the Lund Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM). Our goal is to encourage collaboration, communication, and inspiration among the scientific community by highlighting innovativ

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fireside-chat-wcmm-fusion-co-organisers-carolina-and-elin - 2025-09-07

BECC regularly welcomes guest researchers to work in areas within its scientific framework, with the aim to further strengthen the research and research groups. Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein is head of the Chair of Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology at the University of Freiburg in Germany, who recently finished her timer as a BECC guest researcher. Prof. Dr. Alexandra-Maria Klein from th

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/alexandra-klein-work-inspiration-and-tips-her-time-guest-researcher-becc - 2025-09-07

Image: iStock/Zanuck Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there are no national or international guidelines on how to assess children in these cases. A team of researchers at Lund University, Sweden has now proposed guidelines to reduce the number of emergency an

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/children-breath-holding-spells-undergo-unnecessary-diagnostic-interventions - 2025-09-07

Johan Malmström, Erik Hartman and Artur Schmidtchen have developed a new innovative technique for peptide analysis that identifies new and better biomarkers for safer diagnostics in inflammation and infection. Foto Åsa Hansdotter In an infection, there are tens of thousands of peptides that provide a wealth of information about which bacteria have caused the infection and how severe it is. A resea

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/faster-detection-dangerous-infections - 2025-09-07

Men produce hundreds of millions of sperm every day, which means that the male germ cells are constantly undergoing cell division, increasing the risk of harmful mutations.Photo: iStock/Shidlovski It has previously been difficult to identify DNA mutations in sperm, as these changes are rare, and most sequencing techniques have a large margin of error. Now a research study led from Lund University,

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-method-enables-identification-mutations-sperm - 2025-09-07

Pre-cancerous lesions, known as in situ cancers, were also more likely to be detected with AI – 51 per cent more such cases were found (68 people compared with 45). Photo: iStock New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditi

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-09-07

Sweden is also increasingly affected by unusually intense storms. Here, a flooded playground in the city of Landskrona after the storm "Hans" in August 2023. Have you noticed that when scientists are asked whether or not a particular extreme weather event is due to climate change, they usually respond with something like "It fits the pattern, but we can't say for sure that this particular event is

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/weather-attribution-climate-scientist-wilhelm-may-helps-us-get-grips-concept - 2025-09-07

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Central Asian migrant workers in Russia have seen fewer job opportunities and lower salaries. Among those trying their luck elsewhere, Turkey has become a popular alternative, especially for women. Sociologists of law Rustamjon Urinboyev and Sherzod Eraliev recently published a book comparing the everyday lives of labour migrants in Russia and Turkey. Central Asia -

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/central-asian-migrants-lives-and-challenges-russia-and-turkey - 2025-09-07

After a long break due to the pandemic the WCMM Research Day has been organized in its full form on-site again. It brought WCMM researchers, communicators, economist, the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) members, the director Gunilla Westergren-Thorsson, and co-directors Jonas Larsson and Lars Dahlin, the two newly recruited DDLS fellows and everyone else invited together to embrace the excellent t

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/interview-research-day-organization-committee - 2025-09-07

Pre-cancerous lesions, known as in situ cancers, were also more likely to be detected with AI – 51 per cent more such cases were found (68 people compared with 45). Photo: iStock New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29 per cent more cases of cancer compared with traditi

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-09-07

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Lund University researchers find that individual blood stem cells (depicted as snowflakes in this image) express stress-related transcripts when subjected to experimental procedures involving cell incubation at elevated temperatures. Image // Marcin Minor Changes occur in all cells of the human body as we age. Blood stem cells, in particular, lose some of their functionality over time, contributin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/intrinsic-aging-or-lab-induced-stress-understanding-genetic-changes-blood-stem-cells - 2025-09-07