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Using micro-engineered soil models, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have investigated the effect of tiny polystyrene particles on bacteria and fungi. While these nanoplastics reduced both bacterial and fungal growth, the fungus actually managed to “clean up” their surroundings, thereby easing the effect of the plastics. “Plastic waste is a huge global problem. Whether carelessly discarded

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vacuum-cleaner-effect-fungi-can-hold-nanoplastics-bay - 2026-05-07

All Lund University employees and students are welcome to participate. Info sessions: 25/3 & 16/4. Applications are open until May 5. The Future Innovations Award celebrates groundbreaking ideas from Lund University. Ideas with the potential to change our world. It has now opened for applications for 2025. Since its start in 2017, it has become an important platform for developing and showcasing i

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/future-innovations-award-2025-competition-opens-over-1-million-sek-prizes - 2026-05-07

Six of the most innovative ideas and projects currently underway at Lund University received this year’s Lund University and Sparbanken Skåne’s Future Innovations Award. The winners shared a total of SEK 500,000 between them. The projects included an energy storage system using spent car batteries and a new method for assessing a patient’s risk of stroke. The Future Innovations Prize has been awar

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/six-innovative-ideas-lund-receive-prize - 2026-05-08

Metformin is often described as the first-line medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. However, not all patients respond to the drug. Researchers at Lund University have discovered a combination of biomarkers that can predict which patients will benefit from the treatment. This work is now continuing in order to confirm the results in a larger patient group, with the intention of developi

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-research-collaboration-can-pave-way-innovation - 2026-05-07

In 2025 BECC had its first Lighthouse call ever, and 1 January 2026 marks the start of three projects that receives funding: Climate Change Requires Agricultural Change, Unbreaking the Planet and Promise and Perils of Markets for Nature’s Benefits. A BECC Lighthouse Project tackles some of the most pressing questions of our time, focusing on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a changing climat

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/announcing-our-first-ever-lighthouse-projects - 2026-05-07

In a new book: "Consumption and Society", the two authors Max Koch and Anders Rhiger Hansen contributes with an interwiew on welfare within planetary limits. Publisher: Bristol University Press. Anders Rhiger Hansen visited Lund University in January 2023 to talk to Max Koch about sustainable welfare, human needs, social inequality, and a little bit about Bourdieu. The message from Max was clear:

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/welfare-within-planetary-limits-deep-transformation-requires-holistic-approaches - 2026-05-07

During Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, students from the Strategic Communication and Service Management master programmes organized a panel discussion during Sustainability Week at Campus Helsingborg, exploring the textile industry’s shift towards circular economy practices. Marie Ledendal, Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Communication and Réka Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ho

https://www.iko.lu.se/artikel/panel-discussion-during-sustainability-week - 2026-05-07

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/ryska-bilder-av-den-europeiska-unionen - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Tobias D. Nielsen, Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg och Johannes Stripple har författat artikeln ”Politics and the plastic crisis: A review throughout the plastic life cycle”. Artikeln har publicerats i tidskriften ”Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment”. Om artikeln (på engelska)This article surve

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/politik-och-plastkrisen - 2026-05-07

Malte Breiding Hansen and Maria Jansson (Örebro University) have authored the open-access article ”Who Cares? The Neoliberal Turn and Changes in the Articulations of Women’s Relation to the Swedish Welfare State” in the journal NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article asks whether articulations of women’s relation to the welfare state and modes of political agency have cha

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/hansen-and-jansson-gender-neoliberalism-and-swedish-welfare-state - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Utvecklingen av nya gentekniker som CRISPR-Cas9 har skapat en revolution inom biologisk och medicinsk forskning. De innebär möjligheter att göra riktade förändringar i arvsmassan på nästan alla slags organismer, från bakterier till människor. Tekniken innebär givetvis nya möjligheter men också risker och väcker fråg

https://www.pi.lu.se/artikel/seminarium-mojligheter-och-risker-med-den-nya-gentekniken - 2026-05-07

https://www.svet.lu.se/artikel/om-mobiliseringen-av-konservativ-transnationell-aktivism-pa-familjeomradet - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Their own sense of well-being after a yoga session led them onto a new path in their research. Over 200 LU employees signed up as volunteers for their first study. Now they are finalising an interdisciplinary investigation of the psychological and physiological health effects of yoga. Rachel Maddux. Rachel Maddux, Una

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-employees-use-yoga-relieve-stress - 2026-05-07

The research programme ”Pathways towards an efficient alignment of the financial system with the needs of biodiversity (BIOPATH)”, with Lund University as host, has been granted funding of SEK 50 million over a period of four years, starting September 2022. The financier is Mistra (Foundation for Environmental Strategic Research) and Susanne Arvidsson at LUSEM is the main applicant and programme d

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/50-million-susanne-arvidsson-and-her-team - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Mikael Ottosson och Calle Rosengren har skrivit artikeln ” ‘What the hell is a high standard?’ The Swedish Employers’ Confederation and the six-hour workday debate in the mid 1970s” som har publicerats i Time & Society. Abstract på engelska:A concept that lies at the heart of political rhetoric is that of ‘workfare’

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/debatten-fran-70-talet-om-6-timmars-arbetsdag - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. En ny bok med titeln "Acts of Creation. Thoughts on artistic research supervision" har sett dagens ljus. Redaktörer för boken är Henrik Frisk, Karin Johansson och Åsa Lindberg-Sand. Boken består av tio författares texter om hur det är att handleda doktorander inom konstnärlig forskning och om denna handledning skilj

https://www.mhm.lu.se/artikel/ny-bok-om-handledning-av-doktorander-inom-konstnarlig-forskning - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Att utveckla och implementera e-hälsa inom barnsjukvård, för att främja och bistå egenvård för barn med långvarig sjukdom. Det är målet för det forskningsprogram vid Lunds universitet, som nu får 27,6 miljoner i anslag från Forte och Vetenskapsrådet. – Vi planerar en rad kliniska studier inom barnsjukvård för att st

https://www.barnfamiljhalsa.lu.se/artikel/276-miljoner-till-forskning-om-e-halsa-inom-barnsjukvard - 2026-05-07

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. The following information is for students currently studying at Lund University whose financial situation has changed due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.Lund University Global Scholarship Fund has acquired new funds through the generous donation of the Crafoord Foundation. These funds are reserved for curren

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/lund-university-covid-19-hardship-scholarship - 2026-05-07

Patricia Gerdes, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in transposable elements and their impact on the human genome, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) program. The grant will support a research project which focuses on understanding the role of transposable elements in human brain evolution, shedding light on healthy and disordered brain fu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/cracking-code-human-brain-evolution-patricia-gerdes-awarded-msca-fellowship - 2026-05-07

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. One of the two recent Lund University jubilee stamps depicts the young diabetes researchers Anna Edlund and Jones Ofori. They are pleased to be featured on the stamps – but it was a complete surprise to them both. “Obviously we knew that our picture had been taken. A couple of years ago, there was a photographer here

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unknowing-researchers-became-stamp - 2026-05-07