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Vårt DNA är mycket likt schimpansens, som evolutionärt är vår närmaste levande släkting. Nu har stamcellsforskare i Lund hittat en tidigare förbisedd del i vårt DNA, så kallat icke-kodat DNA, som tycks bidra till en skillnad som trots alla våra likheter kan förklara varför våra hjärnor fungerar olika. Studien publiceras i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Cell Stem Cell. Schimpansen är vår närmaste le

https://www.lu.se/artikel/outforskat-dna-forklarar-skillnaden-mellan-manniska-och-schimpans - 2025-10-14

För närvarande finns inga läkemedel som stoppar eller fördröjer sjukdomsförloppet vid Alzheimers sjukdom. Trots att potentiella läkemedel i tidigare studier har minskat plack i hjärnan har inte patienternas kognition förbättrats. Men skulle resultaten varit annorlunda om det gick att designa studier som ingriper långt tidigare i sjukdomen, innan kognitionen påverkas? Det har en internationell stud

https://www.lu.se/artikel/langre-forsoksperioder-och-storre-lakemedelsstudier-behovs-vid-alzheimer - 2025-10-14

Ville Maisi, senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering (LTH) and researcher at NanoLund, has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant worth SEK 28 million for the QPHOTON project. The research will focus on building microwave detectors over a five-year period. Most people associate microwaves with the small ovens found in many kitch

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/measurement-microwave-photons-could-reveal-mysteries-universe - 2025-10-13

Reconfigurable transistors are key elements in the development of future semiconductors. As conventional transistors approach the limit of how small they can become, more functions in the same number of units will become increasingly important in developing small and energy-efficient circuits for better memories and more powerful computers. In two articles published in Science Advances and Nature

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/reconfigurable-transistors-important-future-semiconductors - 2025-10-13

As summer slowly settles into Lund, the 2023-24 iteration of the WCMM Research School has come to an end. Seven exciting months were wrapped up with a two-day retreat at the beautiful Båstad Riviera Strand. At the retreat, the research school attendees were treated to inspiring lectures by representatives from both academia and industry, highlighting topics such as entrepreneurship, collaboration,

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-research-school-2324-has-come-end - 2025-10-13

The digital platform Child Rights Online has now been launched in 14 countries and will provide teachers and aspiring teachers with a better understanding of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to offer children and young people a more inclusive and equal schooling. In recent years, the Child Rights Institute at Lund University has worked with the international digital platform Global Child

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/better-knowledge-child-rights-when-14-countries-contribute-digital-platform - 2025-10-13

Congratulations to Hanna Bach who defended her thesis "Navigating Sustainable Shipping - Multi-scalar Transition Dynamics in the Maritime Shipping Sector." We took the opportunity to ask Hanna some questions about her research. Why did you choose to focus on the maritime shipping sector? What was it about the subject that interested you from the start?- The sea, boats and ships, and especially sai

https://www.keg.lu.se/en/article/hanna-bach-defended-thesis-sustainable-transition-maritime-shipping-sector - 2025-10-13

Climathon is a global 24-hour hackathon focusing on climate solutions that is run simultaneously in over 230 cities around the world on the 27th of October. This is the first time a Climathon is held in Lund. We face a number of significant climate challenges and need to work together, across traditional boundaries, to find new innovative solutions. Lund Climathon will focus on solar energy develo

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2710 - 2025-10-13

LUCSUS researcher Vasna Ramasar has been appointed as fellow to the SIGHT Fellow Programme in Global Health Leadership.  The programme aims to promote an emerging generation of global health leaders, based at research institutions in Sweden, by focusing on the gaps in relation to leadership skills and international networks. The SIGHT Fellows were identified as upcoming leaders in global health wi

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/tackling-agenda-2030-through-sight-fellows-programme-global-health-leadership - 2025-10-13

The 2nd batch of available accommodations were published on 30 August, deadline 1 September to apply, move-in from 4 September. September batchesToday (30 August), the seventh and eighth batches of available housing for Autumn 2024 were published. These have been separated so that rooms in Helsingborg require a separate application.We are also aiming to send out batches for housing from October so

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/second-september-batches-published - 2025-10-13

Using a new method, diabetes researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have been able to reveal more of the genetic complexity behind type 2 diabetes. The new research findings have been achieved as a result of access to human insulin-producing cells from deceased donors and through not only studying one gene variant, but many genes and how thay influcence the level of the gene in pancreatic islets

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/broader-approach-provides-new-insight-diabetes-genes - 2025-10-13

In 2028, the first observations will be made at the world's largest optical telescope being built in Chile. It is now clear that the facility will be equipped with a powerful spectrograph that researchers in Lund will help to develop. The telescope is called the Extremely Large Telescope and is being built by the European Southern Observatory, ESO - an international organisation with 16 member cou

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-develop-new-spectrograph-giant-telescope - 2025-10-13

In 2000, the Swedish development agency (SIDA) selected Lund University to host a new network that was focused on South Asia. The Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) has – largely thanks to the ambitious work carried out by the former directors Staffan Lindberg and Anna Lindberg as well as the former deputy director Lars Eklund – established itself as an important and well-known node for

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/organisational-changes-and-new-director - 2025-10-13

In an absolutely new exciting project, the University is now calling for applications for an artist residency based at MAX IV, where artists in artistic forms will interpret and provide perspective on what is happening in the world-leading synchrotron light facility at Brunnshög. The Gyllenstiernska Krapperup Foundation has generously donated funds to create an artists in residence programme. In t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/artistic-interpretation-max-iv - 2025-10-14

Adapting cities is key for increasing the resilience of citizens, communities, organisations and wider systems to deal with the effects of climate change. For more than 20 years Professor Christine Wamsler has collaborated with national authorities, municipalities and citizens to implement sustainable climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and long-term sustainability projects to supp

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/impact-story-sustainable-climate-change-adaptation-and-disaster-risk-reduction-local-national-and - 2025-10-13

Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, has been sorting cells with a variety of types of FACS machines for the past 23 years. But she hasn’t gotten tired yet of the job – quite the opposite. And now she has a new and more powerful member of the “FACS family” to look after. “I really love my job! It’s stimulating to meet so many people and hear a

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2025-10-13

Urban Transition Öresund: Comparison of cost models supports retrofitting Copenhagen city is one of many European cities in need of energy retrofitting for its many older apartment buildings. But the related high costs tend to slow down the work. With IIIEE researchers contribution on knowledge of the pros and cons of different financing models, Copenhagen is advancing its work.Most European citie

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-bernadett-kiss - 2025-10-13

Anna Fossum, Project Manager at the StemTherapy FACS Core Facility research infrastructure, has been sorting cells with a variety of types of FACS machines for the past 23 years. But she hasn’t gotten tired yet of the job – quite the opposite. And now she has a new and more powerful member of the “FACS family” to look after. “I really love my job! It’s stimulating to meet so many people and hear a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-addition-lund-stem-cell-center-facs-facility - 2025-10-13

Sara Ullström, PhD in Sustainability Science, will present her work at a first seminar on 17th September. We asked her to explain what her research within the project, The takeoff of staying on the ground, is about. What do you explore in your PhD? My research investigates the questioning of high-carbon worlds through the case of the staying on the ground phenomenon in Sweden. This phenomenon cons

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/phd-student-sara-ullstrom-studies-mobilisation-and-voluntary-action-connected-low-carbon-ways-life - 2025-10-13

Childlessness is a growing phenomenon in many countries, especially in China. Wenqian Xu will the next three years work with evidence-building, capacity-building and public-engagement activities on the topic "Ageing without children", within this grant. Could you please comment upon this international postdoc grant, what does it mean to you? - I am honored to receive this international postdoc gra

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/sweah-alumnus-wenqian-xu-receives-large-international-postdoc-grant-swedish-research-council - 2025-10-13