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

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/defekta-spermier-dubblar-risken-havandeskapsforgiftning - 2025-09-01

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 - 2025-09-01

Foto: Kennet Ruona Om sex, sju år förväntas Universitetshuset slå upp sina nyrenoverade portar. Det blir ett hus för i första hand ceremoniella högtider och representation. Där ska också finnas en reception och platser där man kan slå sig ner för att studera eller arbeta. Renoveringen av Universitetshuset blir omfattande. Man valde det mest genomgripande alternativet av tre förslag som Statens fas

https://www.lu.se/artikel/universitetshuset-blir-ett-hus-ceremonier-med-studie-och-arbetsplatser - 2025-09-01

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 - 2025-08-31

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/next-stop-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) reached the Triple Crown status in 2021. This is the first reconfirmaton of the quality of the School, as both EQUIS (in May) and AMBA (in August) reaccrediated the School for another five years. Lund University School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) has now received its reaccreditation through both the European Quality Improvement Sys

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/lusem-reaffirms-its-triple-crown-accreditation - 2025-08-31

Video: Vinzent Ostermeyer explains his award-winning research “Vinzent is an independent and creative researcher who shows exceptional ability in combining large historical data sets with modern quantitative methods and theoretical modelling.” This is how the researcher who wrote the best thesis of the year at LUSEM is described in the prize nomination. Congratulations, Vinzent Ostermeyer! In his

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-research-swedens-industrialisation-process-receives-lusem-award-best-doctoral-thesis-2023 - 2025-08-31

Albert Duodu investigates how trade shocks impact the economic activities of a country. Photo: iStock Trade shocks can have various impacts on the economic activities of a country, yet it remains uncertain whether such shocks influence the environmental behaviors of firms. Albert Duodu shows, in a recent investigation, that trade shocks originating from countries with less stringent environmental

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/carbon-offshoring-and-manufacturing-cleanup - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31

Academic misconduct has increased with about 200% during the past covid years. As a precaution Lund University has started a project to prevent deception and misleading in examination, whether it’s unauthorized cooperation, plagiarism, or non-allowed aids. In every study environment there is a unique culture, with boundaries to what is considered acceptable and unacceptable by the students themsel

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/ai-forces-teachers-change-way-courses-are-examined-0 - 2025-08-31

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 - 2025-08-31