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The forest is currently at the centre of an intense debate. It concerns, in simplified terms, which climate benefits the forest can provide, either by sequestering carbon in standing forest, or by being used to substitute fossil fuels and fossil-intensive materials. In a new literature review from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) at Lund University in Sweden, Markku Rummukain

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/climate-benefits-forest-balancing-act-prioritisation - 2025-12-19

To address the lack of evidence regarding the links between housing, relocations, and health along the process of ageing, CASE-researchers for the first time linked comprehensive person and housing data available from population registers in Sweden. Associate Professor Giedre Gefenaite, affiliated with CASE and the profile area Proactive ageing, recently published a cohort profile paper on this, t

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/first-comprehensive-personal-and-housing-data-sweden - 2025-12-19

Welcome to a CMES Roundtable about current research on transnational Twelver Shiism with LU researchers Oula Kadhum, Fouad Marei, Stefan Williamson Fa, Nada Al-Hudaid and Yafa Shanneik! May 19, 15:00-16:30, at CMES (Finngatan 16) The Middle East has witnessed radical changes in the last 20 years with regimes being removed by foreign intervention (Iraq in 2003) or by the popular uprisings during th

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-roundtable-may-19-resistance-diaspora-and-sensory-material-culture - 2025-12-20

Join LUCSUS at this year's Sustainability Week. We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate crisis. Sustainability week is an annual event in Lund organised as a joint venture by Lund University and Lund municipality. The week serves as a platform for bringing together ideas, for cross-disciplinary collaboration

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/join-lucsus-sustainability-week-17-22-april - 2025-12-19

Åsa Hansson, Associate Professor of Economics at LUSEM, has been appointed by the Swedish government to lead a new investigation about Sweden’s declining birth rate. Birth rates in Sweden have been falling. According to Statistics Sweden (SCB), 98,451 children were born in 2024 — 1,600 fewer than in 2023. This trend is seen across all societal groups and regions. Research shows that one in four yo

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/why-are-fewer-children-being-born-sweden - 2025-12-20

Throughout Future Week at Lund University, we got a chance to look into the Future. During a range of events, researchers and students across Lund University discussed different issues on the theme 'Transitions'. What are the transitions we have to make? What are the ones we want to make? And which transitions do we preferably want to avoid? Several LUCSUS researchers participated in the week, sha

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/sustainable-transitions-focus-during-lund-university-future-week - 2025-12-20

The news last week that Lund University has five profile areas has generated a lot of interest. Since the information at this stage has been rather limited, I will answer the three most common questions here. More information will be published about the profile areas after the summer holidays. Question 1: What will the profile areas do? All five profile areas are based on excellent research, with

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-information-about-lund-universitys-five-profile-areas - 2025-12-20

Johannes Rousk is one of the world’s most cited and influential researchers, according to the analytics company Clarivate. If you ask him, the road to success was marked by luck, opportunity and fantastic people. Luck is a concept that researchers don’t use very often, but Johannes Rousk does. For him, it is not about finding the answer to the holy grail through divine intervention, which in the w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/more-luck-strategy-behind-most-cited-research - 2025-12-20

What is the perfect recipe for semiconductors? Vanya Darakchieva is working on the answer in her research on novel semiconductor materials. As a professor of solid state physics at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), she is a “research chef” designing the future cookbook for sustainable and safe electronics. Understanding and explaining the mysteries of nature was Vanya Darakchieva’s dream during he

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-chef-refines-recipe-semiconductors - 2025-12-20

Ludwig Schmiderer has studied how to overcome delivery challenges in stem cell biology with nanotechnology. In this interview, he tells us about his research and generative art. What have you been working with during your PhD studies? At the beginning of my PhD, I was trying to reengineer the CRISPR/Cas9 system to make it work in mitochondria instead of nucleus. The project started off quite well

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-ludwig-schmiderer - 2025-12-19

In a major leap forward for preclinical nuclear medicine research at Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC), the IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg Research Foundation has granted 2.6 million SEK to upgrade important equipment at centre’s Preclinical Nuclear Medicine platform. The funds will be used to enhance the positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)

https://www.lbic.lu.se/article/lund-university-bioimaging-centre-secures-26-million-sek-nuclear-medicine-imaging-equipment-upgrade - 2025-12-19

An international team led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden has identified the molecular tools needed to reprogram ordinary cells into specialised immune cells. The discovery, published in Immunity, could pave the way for more precise and personalised cancer immunotherapies. The team has taken an important step toward harnessing the immune system to fight cancer. Their work describes how

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/scientists-uncover-cellular-toolkit-reprogram-immune-cells-cancer-therapy - 2025-12-19

En stor andel av de lungor som doneras varje år kan inte användas för transplantation. Forskare vid Skånes universitetssjukhus och Lunds universitet har i en studie på djur nått resultat som ger hopp om att fler donerade lungor ska kunna rädda liv i framtiden. En pilotstudie har nu inletts för att se om behandlingen har samma positiva resultat hos människor. Varje år blir cirka 190 avlidna persone

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-behandling-kan-ge-tillgang-till-fler-donerade-lungor-och-farre-komplikationer-efter - 2025-12-20

Den 24 april är det fem år sen textilfabrikskomplexet Rana Plaza i Bangladesh kollapsade och tog över tusen arbetares liv. Det ledde till en häftig debatt om ohållbara förhållanden både för miljön och för de som tillverkar kläderna. Vad har hänt sedan dess? Hör företrädare för modeindustrin, experter och forskare i en paneldiskussion på Fashion Revolution Day. Vi köper ca 13,5 kg textiler per pers

https://www.lu.se/artikel/fashion-revolution-day-moderevolution-pa-gang - 2025-12-19

Det finns inget samband mellan tidpunkten för introduktion av gluten i kosten och utveckling av glutenintolerans. Det visar en ny, internationell studie från Lunds universitet. En ny forskningsstudie där över 6 400 barn ingår visar att tidpunkten för introduktion av gluten i kosten inte var en egen, självständig riskfaktor för senare utveckling av glutenintolerans. Barnen som forskningen baserar s

https://www.lu.se/artikel/glutenintolerans-tidpunkt-introduktion-i-barns-kost-kan-ha-overskattats - 2025-12-20

Nedanstående forskare vid Lunds universitet kan utifrån olika akademiska perspektiv kommentera relationen mellan USA, Israel och Iran samt den bredare geopolitiska utvecklingen i Mellanöstern och världen. Ekonomi och handelMaria Persson, docent i nationalekonomi, kan uttala sig om hur internationell politik påverkar internationell handel och ekonomi. E-post: maria [dot] persson [at] nek [dot] lu [

https://www.lu.se/artikel/krisen-i-mellanostern-israel-usa-och-iran - 2025-12-20

Sannolikheten att få bilen godkänd är högre i områden med många bilbesiktningsstationer än i områden med få. Det visar nationalekonomerna Osmis Habte (Konkurrensverket) och Jerker Holm (Ekonomihögskolan) i en vetenskaplig artikel publicerad i Review of Industrial Organization. Studien baseras på drygt 22 miljoner besiktningar mellan åren 2010 och 2015, och studerar hur antalet konkurrenter i en st

https://www.lu.se/artikel/konkurrens-okar-chansen-att-fa-bilen-godkand-i-bilbesiktningen - 2025-12-20

Kurds, human rights, nationalism and democracy are sensitive subjects. At least in Turkey today. When political scientist Umut Ozkirimli engages in his third mission as an academic, i.e. taking part in public debate, he gets death threats. At the moment, he receives as many as ten such threats per day. Umut Ozkirimli. Umut Ozkirimli, a political scientist from Turkey specialising in human rights,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/people-are-trying-silence-me - 2025-12-19

A month ago, I made a visit to the University of Gothenburg’s Research Board. While there, I was asked, “Why has Lund University performed so incredibly well in Horizon Europe?” I counted myself lucky to have received an update beforehand from Research Services that we have been very successful, otherwise I would have been caught off guard. It just goes to show that we must update our view of ours

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gothenburg-they-know-lund-university-has-been-successful-horizon-europe - 2025-12-20

The war in Gaza has caused conflict at universities in Sweden and abroad. Overcoming the differences between protestors and university managements and within groups of employees is likely to take time. We met with both Lund University’s Vice-Chancellor and protestors from the encampment in Lundagård. In this edition of LUM, they share their visions of how to move forward. We have also interviewed

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/after-palestinagard-way-forward - 2025-12-20