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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Hospitals should design premises and adapt their infection control routines to a society that no longer has effective antibiotics, and that is vulnerable to fast-spreading global pandemics. This is argued in a new dissertation from Lund University in Sweden. “Many hospitals in Sweden and the world are becoming old and
Each year, one in four women suffers from bacterial vaginosis, something that is currently treated with antibiotics. However, recently a gentler, antibiotic-free alternative has been authorised for sale in the EU. The chance discovery behind the innovation was made by a group of researchers from Lund University in Sweden. Stinging, itching and odorous vaginal discharge is a common and a stigmatise
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/surprise-discovery-leads-treatment-common-infection - 2026-09-06
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Improved and sustainable Menstrual Health Management has great impact on several of the Sustainable Development Goals, including: Good health and well-being, Gender equality, Quality education, Sustainable cities and communities, and Clean water and sanitation. On the 28th of May we join the commemoration of the Menst
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/menstrual-hygiene-day-2019-itstimeforaction - 2026-09-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In the hunt for better knowledge on the aging process, researchers from Lund University have now enlisted the help of small birds. A new study investigates various factors which affect whether chicks are born with long or short chromosome ends, called telomeres. The genetic make-up of our cells consists of genes lined
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-fast-you-age-depends-your-parents - 2026-09-05
The energy sector is one of the sectors that need to undergo both rapid and far-reaching transformation to limit the effects of climate change. What is the significance of basic research, which investigates new theories and new approaches, in driving development? Solar energy has great potential to become one of our most important energy sources. The energy in the sun’s rays corresponds to more th
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-make-solar-energy-more-efficient - 2026-09-05
Today's energy system is not equipped to deal with the extreme weather of the future, according to an international research group that tested 13 potential climate change scenarios on 30 cities in four different climate zones in Sweden. A growing share of renewable energy makes the system even more vulnerable, according to the projections published in Nature Energy. The climate is changing, and we
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/extreme-weather-could-increase-power-outages - 2026-09-05
Astronomers can use supercomputers to simulate the formation of galaxies from the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago to the present day. But there are a number of sources of error. An international research team, led by researchers in Lund, has spent a hundred million computer hours over eight years trying to correct these. The last decade has seen major advances in computer simulations that can real
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-insights-how-galaxies-are-formed - 2026-09-06
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a synthesis report summarizing the reports of recent years. Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's contact person for the IPCC and also Professor of Climatology at the Center for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, answers five question about the new report. What does the new synthesis report say?- The Synthesis Report
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-climate-report-near-term-action-crucial - 2026-09-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique project, researchers from Lund University in Sweden, together with universities in South Africa, the Netherlands and the USA, will for the first time systematise large amounts of historical data from the Dutch East India Company’s colonisation of South Africa. Their aim: to find out when and how colonial p
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economic-historians-seeking-roots-south-africas-inequality - 2026-09-05
Styrelsen för LTH har beslutat att utse tre nya hedersdoktorer: professor Ulla Vogel, professor Ikhlaq Sidhu och entreprenören och företagsledaren Yasemin Arhan Modéer. Ulla Vogel är chef för Nanotoxicology and Occupational Hygiene vid Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Arbejdsmiljø i Köpenhamn. Hon har även flera pågående projekt tillsammans med LTH sedan tidigare och har även varit Scientific Ad
https://www.lu.se/artikel/lth-utser-tre-nya-hedersdoktorer-2 - 2026-09-06
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. LUM har träffat medarbetare som arbetar med vitt skilda saker runtom på universitet, men som alla påverkas av pandemin – både i arbetet och utanför. Anders Kullberg, IT-samordnare på Kansli N samt Biologiska institutionenHur har din vardag påverkats?– Som IT-samordnare har man många hands on-uppgifter, men det är fö
https://www.lu.se/artikel/min-coronavardag-utmaning-att-ge-support-till-hemmajobbare - 2026-09-06
The Public Health Agency recently announced that stage 4 in the easing of restrictions will be implemented as planned on 29 September, including the removal of the overall recommendation to work from home and the start of a general, but gradual, return to all Swedish workplaces. September has started in the best possible way with lovely late summer weather as more and more of the limitations that
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/we-are-sticking-plan - 2026-09-05
On 9 September the government changed the end date for working from home from 15 September to 28 September. Since June there had been a decision that applies to the University regarding the gradual and orderly adaptation to activities without restrictions. This decision continues to apply. The government’s instruction now applies up to and including 28 September in order to align with stage 4 of t
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-government-decision-return-work-established-plan-still-applies - 2026-09-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kenan Madi, a former student at our Master's programme with the specialisation Logistics, spent the summer at the Jordanian- Syrian border as an Emergency specialist for UNICEF. Kenan was working with UNICEF to support coordination of critical lifesaving services and supplies for Syrian children and families at Jordan
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-student-helped-syrian-refugees-during-summer - 2026-09-05
Fakulteterna har nu utsett sina hedersdoktorer för 2023. Det är många namnkunniga mottagare, bland annat Johannes Anyuru, Timbuktu (Jason Diakité), Rita Charon, Mimi Abramovitz och Jan Dohnt. Hedersdoktorerna kommer att promoveras vid doktorspromotionen den 26 maj. Se hela listan och gå in på respektive fakultet för att se om/när det arrangeras föreläsningar med hedersdoktorerna. Teologiska fakult
https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/universitetets-hedersdoktorer-2023-utsedda-av-fakulteterna - 2026-09-06
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Årets förstapris gick till Orest Lastow och Lars Arvidsson verksamma vid bolaget Iconovo AB på Lund Life Science incubator, för en unik lösning med inhalerat vaccin som ersätter traditionella sprutor. För att främja forskning, utveckling och entreprenörskap i Skåne delar PwC och LU Innovation, i samarbete med Lunds
https://www.lu.se/artikel/inhalerat-vaccin-vinner-innovationspriset-2015 - 2026-09-06
Att minska plastavfallet och plastföroreningar i våra hav står på agendan för FN’s medlemsländer sedan mars 2022. I en utfrågning arrangerad av franska Sénat och Assemblée Nationale deltog professor Hervé Corvellec som inbjuden expert på plastavfall och svarade på frågan ”varför finns det så mycket plastavfall?”. I mars 2022 beslutade medlemsstater i FN att utreda möjligheterna till ett lagligt bi
https://www.ses.lu.se/artikel/herve-corvellec-plast-och-konsumtion-hanger-ihop - 2026-09-05
Vinnova is a Swedish innovation agency, dedicated to fund Swedish innovation and fostering sustainable growth. Their commitment lies in propelling Sweden as a dynamic force in the realm of innovation within the context of a sustainable world. Paul Bourgine and his group will receive 970 000 SEK from November 2023 to June 2024 for the proposed development of the OssiGel technology, which aims to te
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-receives-vinnova-emerging-technology-grant-ossigel-technology - 2026-09-05
Oksana Tymoshchuk, professor from Ukraine, came to Sweden in April 2022 when a full-scale war broke out in her country. A grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation brought Oksana and Iben Lundgaard together and today Oksana is working in the Lundgaard lab trying to find out more about the mysterious glymphatic system. We are all well aware of the situation in Ukraine. Prof Oksana Tymoshc
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/story-oksana-tymoshchuk-and-mysterious-glymphatic-system - 2026-09-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nowadays it is possible to produce plastics from sugar or vegetable oils, but up to now fossil oil has been too cheap for the production of bioplastics to be profitable. That explains why the plastic-producing bacteria, developed some years ago by researchers at the Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (Kemic
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/huge-potential-bioplastics - 2026-09-05
