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A project at Lund University in Sweden has trained an AI model to identify breast cancer patients who could be spared from axillary surgery. The model analyses previously unutilised information in mammograms and pinpoints with high accuracy the individual risk of metastasis in the armpit. A newly completed study shows that the model indicates that just over 40 per cent of today’s axillary surgery

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-model-lund-university-indicates-four-out-ten-breast-cancer-patients-could-avoid-axillary-surgery - 2025-12-17

Lund University is strong in terms of publications. Stellenbosch University has very good equipment. Doctoral student Ahmed Fawzy is part of a research group in Chemical Physics that is collaborating with South Africa to find efficient catalysts in chemical processes. Ahmed Fawzy is a doctoral student in Lund, but uses equipment at Stellenbosch University for his research in chemical physics. “If

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mutual-collaboration-gives-strength-research - 2025-12-17

With 10,000 new cases a year, prostate cancer is the most common cancer type in Sweden. To create equal, accessible and high-quality prostate cancer care, Region Skåne has introduced Organised prostate cancer testing, OPT. "Anyone who wants to should be allowed to be tested for prostate cancer. Studies show that early detection lowers long-term mortality", says Anders Bjartell, one of Sweden’s lea

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/organised-prostate-cancer-testing-provide-more-equal-care - 2025-12-17

This year Lund Stem Cell Center and MultiPark, two strategic research areas based at Lund University, are happy to launch a new joint technical platform in an effort to ensure easy access to high quality core electrophysiology techniques and expert knowledge for investigating cells and tissues that exhibit electrical properties. In 2009, the Swedish government decided to invest in strategic resear

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-scc-and-multipark-join-forces-ensure-researchers-have-high-quality-electrophysiology-facilities - 2025-12-17

Martin Moström from Retail House shares insights on the necessity for the retail sector to embrace change. Contrary to rumours, the physical store is far from obsolete; it has consistently evolved. Over the past two decades in the grocery trade, store numbers in Sweden have decreased from over 3,000 to around 1,000. This transformation is a natural part of business, but the challenge lies in how w

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/seeing-grocery-store-fresh-eyes - 2025-12-17

One of the medical students who has begun working at Skåne University Hospital to strengthen Skåne's health service in the fight against Covid-19 is Hanna Djerf. For her, giving help where it’s needed is an obvious thing to do. She is also gaining valuable insight into how intensive care works. At the end of March, the Faculty of Medicine and Region Skåne announced that they had reached an agreeme

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/you-want-help - 2025-12-17

Hur bör samhällen hantera barn som har upplevt våld och övergrepp? Denna open access-bok bidrar till den pågående diskussionen genom att fördjupa sig i Barnahus-modellen: en mångdisciplinär modell vars syfte är att både erbjuda rättvisa och återhämtning till utsatta barn. Modellen Barnahus implementerades först i Norden och sprids nu över Europa. Den nya boken Justice and Recovery for Victimised C

https://www.soch.lu.se/artikel/bokrelease-justice-and-recovery-victimised-children - 2025-12-17

The conference was organized within the project “Collaborative toolbox towards ant-racism and academia" On the 28th of May we organized a full-day conference ANTI-RACIST STRATEGIES IN TEACHING, LEARNING, RESEARCH AND INSTITUTIONAL LIFE as a cooperation between scholars gathered in the local group of Antirasistisk Akademin and the student collective Gender Troublemakers. This conference aimed at ex

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/conference-anti-racism-and-diversity-academia - 2025-12-17

China currently faces challenges related to climate change and environmental degradation. Though daunting, work to combat these problems is on-going. MERGE and BECC researchers at the University of Gothenburg currently enjoys a number of research collaborations with researchers in the field at Chinese universities. “We need to take decisive action to stop the destruction of the environment. At the

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/project-china - 2025-12-17

The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published: 2019-05-06“This disease is still very rare in Sweden but the number of cases has

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2025-12-17

No 50, 15 December 2025 The NAISS training team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New YearWelcome to the last edition of the NAISS training newsletters in 2025.  In this newsletter we announce our new NAISS introduction training week.   The introduction week consists out of 7 training modules, which have previously been stand alone courses.  Please select the modules according to your own r

https://www.compile.lu.se/article/naiss-training-newsletter-4 - 2025-12-17

In Tanzania, girls on their period avoid going to school, something that affects their opportunities for education. A new study from LUCSUS shows that the menstrual cup could be a step towards better school attendance, and a life with more freedom. It could also play a part in reducing waste in the country. As a young woman in Tanzania, having your period is associated with great challenges, myths

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-cups-could-help-girls-attend-school-tanzania - 2025-12-17

There is a noticeably nervous atmosphere in the small examination room at the women's clinic. Medical students Caroline Hellsten, Joakim Öhman and Rasmus Hagberg are about to carry out a gynaecological examination for the first time during their studies. However, Marina Larsson Silly, who is today's 'professional patient' is calmer. She has done this before and is used to providing the students wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professional-patient-guides-way-medical-students - 2025-12-17

Visible matter in the universe represents only five per cent of everything that exists. The rest is invisible dark matter and dark energy. Particle physicist Ruth Pöttgen is one of the Lund University researchers involved in the search for the mysterious dark matter of the universe. She is standing at her whiteboard in a small office at Fysicum. With the help of her pen, Ruth Pöttgen tries to pain

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/search-shadow-invisible - 2025-12-18

Verina Gfader kommer främst att vara ansvarig för vårt nya masterprogram i fri konst med inriktning mot forskningsförberedande studier. Verina Gfader is an artist and researcher whose practice is orchestrated as organised fields of research aided by printed matter, drawing and animation, text performance and fabulations, and fictional institutions. The work is an interaction, a relation between t

https://www.khm.lu.se/artikel/konsthogskolan-i-malmo-valkomnar-professor-verina-gfader - 2025-12-17

Rikard Warlenius will defend his thesis named "Asymmetries. Conceptualizing Environmental Inequalities as Ecological Debt and Ecologically Unequal Exchange" on the 10th of February at 1 pm in Världen, Geocentrum 1. Opponent will be Joan Martínez Alier of UAB, Barcelona. In this compilation thesis, consisting of six papers and an introductory chapter, the concepts of ecological debt, climate debt,

https://www.keg.lu.se/artikel/thesis-defense-rikard-warlenius-10th-february - 2025-12-17

KB får i uppdrag att ta fram nationella riktlinjer för öppen vetenskap Regeringen har fattat beslut om att ge KB i uppdrag att ta fram nationella riktlinjer för öppen vetenskap. I uppdraget ingår att samverka med Vetenskapsrådet, universitet och högskolor liksom andra berörda myndigheter och organisationer. Uppdraget ska redovisas till regeringen den 15 september 2023. Mer information: KB får i up

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-juni-juli-augusti-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-1 - 2025-12-17

Dr. Anindita Datta is spending 10 Days as a guest researcher at SASNET: Swedish South Asian Studies Network Anindita Datta is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her research interests are in the area of feminist geography, conceptual traditions in geography and social geography of India. She is particularly interested in visibilisi

https://www.genus.lu.se/artikel/dr-anindita-datta-guest-researcher-sasnet - 2025-12-17

Vad gör egentligen en försvarsadvokat i rättssalen för att visa lojalitet mot sin klient? Lisa Flower har publicerat en artikel på detta tema I ”Journal of Contemporary Ethnography”. Abstract på engelskaThe courtroom work of defense lawyers has received surprisingly little sociological attention. What does a defense lawyer actually do in court? How do defense lawyers represent their client beyond

https://www.soc.lu.se/artikel/forsvarsadvokaternas-arbete-i-rattssalen - 2025-12-18

Ice sheets, snow and the ocean as far as the eye can see. No shipping vessels or people in sight, and only polar bears for company. The icebreaker Oden sails between Svalbard and Greenland, and this spring, doctoral student Lovisa Nilsson joined the ship to study the transition from winter to summer in the Arctic, and how soot affects the melting of sea ice. For six weeks, the spaces onboard Oden

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/polar-bears-company - 2025-12-18