By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 10 June 2024 Tony Ingesson writes about Morse code in one of his articles published in The Conversation. Photo: Johan Persson and Chris Curry Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, political scientist and expert

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-08-15

Published 31 March 2020 PORTRAIT. Michael Edgerton is a composer, world citizen and since the summer of 2019, Professor of Artistic Research at the Malmö Academy of Music. How come you decided to apply for a job in Sweden and move here? - In 2002, I began to work with guitarist Stefan Östersjö and then later ensemble Ars Nova, and the Stockholm Sax Quartet. These were good experiences and I was im

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/unusual-sounds-complex-contexts - 2025-08-15

By louise [dot] larsson [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Louise Larsson) - published 17 February 2022 Illustration: Catrin Jakobsson Many of us have worked more remotely during the pandemic than we ever dreamed of doing. Informatics researcher Saonee Sarker has been studying IT-enabled collaboration and its impact on work-life balance for many years, but mainly with a focus on the IT sector. Today, she

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hybrid-workplace-future - 2025-08-15

Published 23 October 2023 Apply to become a post-doctoral fellow at CMES to study political youth, water security, research data infrastructure or geopolitics in the Middle East before 20 November 2023! Postdoctoral Fellow on Political Youth in Middle East Conflicts The postdoctoral position will be part of a research project focused on the Middle East and youth in armed conflicts. The conflicts i

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/job-openings-4-cmes-postdoctoral-fellows-political-youth-water-security-and-geopolitics - 2025-08-15

Published 25 March 2010 Children of immigrants from countries with low risk of type 1 diabetes develop the disease more often than expected if they grow up in Sweden, which is a high-risk country. Scientists mean that it is something in the Swedish environment that causes this elevated risk. Ahmed Delli, who is a scientist at Lund University Diabetes Centre, has mapped what happens when a child mo

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/moving-sweden-increases-risk-diabetes - 2025-08-15

Published 19 September 2013 With around 350 million patients worldwide, diabetes is one of the world’s major public health problems. This year’s Fernström Foundation Nordic Prize, with prize money of SEK 1 million, goes to the internationally renowned diabetes researcher Leif Groop from Lund University in Sweden. Leif Groop’s speciality has been referred to as ‘gene fishing’. It involves fishing u

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/major-prize-lu-diabetes-researcher - 2025-08-15

Published 21 January 2015 Antidiabetics that also provide cardiovascular benefit is a key unmet need in diabetes treatment. ApoA-l is a protein shown to have both glucose lowering and cholesterol-lowering effects and has been investigated by Jens Lagerstedt and Karin Stenkula for its therapeutic potential. They have now received 2,5 million Danish kroner from the Novo Seeds for taking innvoation a

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/lagerstedt-and-stenkula-receive-novo-seed-grant - 2025-08-15

Published 13 November 2020 One clear change meant minimising the number of patient visits to the clinic – instead, physicians, nurses and patients met via telephone or video call. A cancer diagnosis often entails many hospital visits and intensive treatments that can be very tiring for the patient. In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, cancer patients were identified as an at-risk g

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/wake-pandemic-new-methods-cancer-care - 2025-08-15

Published 4 June 2018 Swedish nature is teeming with wild edible plants. Some taste good, others don’t. A group of biologists from 11 different countries got to learn which plants are edible, and what they taste like, when the department’s SACT (Scientific Activities) group organised a herbal excursion to Abusa Valley outside Södra Sandby in Skåne. The goal was to learn more about the herbs of nat

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/biologists-feasting-spring-abusa-valley - 2025-08-15

Published 16 March 2020 Message from the LUDC Executive Board. Photo by CDC on Unsplash Dear Friends and colleagues,We are all now well aware that the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading fast in Sweden and around the world. There is a lot of information to digest. Some of this is factual and helpful, but there is also a great deal of poorly informed speculation, that risks promoting anxiety and panic.

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/updates-covid-19 - 2025-08-15

By ellen [dot] albertsdottir [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Ellen Albertsdóttir) - published 10 June 2024 Morse code is still used in Russia, but the manuals have probably  been updated. Photo Chris Curry. Why does Russia still use Morse code? Has military conscription increased equality? These are two questions that Tony Ingesson, associate senior lecturer at the Department of Political Sc

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/morse-code-russia-path-idea-popular-article-conversation - 2025-08-16

Published 20 January 2025 On 12 December, the Government presented the Research and Innovation Bill entitled “Research and Innovation for the Future, Curiosity and Benefit”. An overall assessment of the Bill shows that it is much more challenging for Lund University than any previous Research Bill. It offers great opportunities for many researchers and different types of research, while stearing r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-bill-great-opportunities-very-challenging - 2025-08-16

Published 9 September 2024 Photo: MostPhotos. A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/atoms-absorb-energy-unexpected-ways - 2025-08-15

Published 18 November 2021 Conference title “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey Central Asian Law project organized the conference titled “Understanding legal cultures in Central Asia” on 6-8 November in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference focused on the discussion of the interconnections between international actors, domestic institutions, busines

https://www.centralasianlaw.lu.se/article/conference-understanding-legal-cultures-central-asia-6-8-november-2021 - 2025-08-15

By jenny [dot] loftrup [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jenny Loftrup) - published 14 February 2020 The University finds itself in a time of paradoxes. At the same time as the EU, via its framework programmes, works for openness and mobility for researchers and students, there are increasing nationalistic and protectionist trends. In addition, the trust and hope that society has in research a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/competitive-intelligence-increasing-difficulty-being-university - 2025-08-15

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 14 October 2022 Ouyang Yuan will defend her thesis 14 October 2022. Ouyang Yuan defends her Ph.D. thesis on 14 October 2022. As a medical student with a longstanding interest in blood malignancies, her research has focused on better understanding the development of a specific type of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemi

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/placing-acute-myeloid-leukemia-under-microscope-phd-interview-ouyang-yuan - 2025-08-15

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/bioengineering-and-cell-derived-strategies-salivary-gland-regeneration-phd-interview-jiao-dong - 2025-08-15

By anna [dot] lothman [at] ehl [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Löthman) - published 15 June 2025 Course participants of 'Innovation, Transformation, and Resilience for Sustainable Development' gathered in front of LUSEM’s main entrance. Photo: Private What surprises a course participant from Africa on a short visit in Lund and to LUSEM? And what made the strongest impressions? Takes to bring back? And wha

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/what-we-learned-and-will-take-home - 2025-08-15

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By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 19 March 2024 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have led a study involving osteoporosis patients with hip fractures. The results show that it is possible to increase bone formation around surgical implants. Photo: iStock New research shows that it is possible to induce new bone formation around orthopaedic i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/making-bone-alive-ceramic-material-transforming-new-bone-tissue-osteoporotic-patients - 2025-08-15