Published 28 September 2020 Petra Östergren next to a mural of a sex worker on Marion Street, Wellington, during her 2017 field studies in New Zealand, the only country in the world with an integrative policy.. Photo: Catherine Healy. Social anthropologist Petra Östergren’s research rethinks prostitution policies and receives international response and praise. Her chapter "From zero-tolerance to f

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/governing-sex-work-new-way-categorizing-prostitution-policy-may-be-standard-years-come - 2025-08-15

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/earths-meteorite-impacts-over-past-500-million-years-tracked - 2025-08-15

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 3 June 2024 Bacteriophage attacking a bacteria. Photo: iStock There is a constant war between bacteria and their viruses, bacteriophages, where both try to outsmart each other. An international study led by Lund University provided an important missing bit to the puzzle of how the bacteria defend themselves against pha

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/war-between-bacteria-and-their-virus - 2025-08-15

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 3 December 2024 Magnesium plays a crucial role in protecting cells against damage from free radicals (antioxidant defense). Illustration: iStock/Just_Super An international team of researchers, led by scientists at Lund University, has uncovered how magnesium enters mitochondria. Magnesium is a vital mineral that plays a key r

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/auto-regulating-channels-supply-our-cells-magnesium - 2025-08-15

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 12 February 2025 Experimental scientist Ilknur Özen and Niklas Marklund, professor at Lund University and neurosurgical consultant at Skåne University hospital have in collaboration with Uppsala investigated brain tissue from 15 patients. Photo: Tove Smeds A study at Lund University reveals that traumatic brain inj

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/cracking-alzheimers-code-how-brain-trauma-triggers-disease - 2025-08-15

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 24 August 2023 Researchers at Lund University, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Hannover Medical School and the biopharma company Amniotics will investigate how natural killer cells can be tailored for the treatment of AML, glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. Photo: iStock. As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselv

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer - 2025-08-15

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 30 September 2021 A spruce bark beetle. Photo: Fredrik Schlyter Researchers have successfully mapped the entire genome of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle. The breakthrough paves the way for new research into bark beetles and better prospects for effective pest control of a species that can destroy more than 100 million cubic

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/entire-genome-common-forest-pest-now-revealed - 2025-08-15

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/new-gps-system-microorganisms-could-revolutionise-police-work - 2025-08-15

Published 21 September 2023 Photo: Håkan Rodhe Meet our new colleague Georgios Pardalis who recently joined the IIIEE. Originally from Thessaloniki, Greece, with master’s degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gävle and a PhD from Linnaeus University, he has now moved to Lund. Georgios has a background in Building Technology and Industrial Economics, and will be worki

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/welcome-georgios-pardalis - 2025-08-15

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-mouse-model-confirms-how-type-2-diabetes-develops - 2025-08-15

By johan [dot] lindskoug [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Lindskoug) - published 11 April 2025 The Atlas research group in Lund. Back: Samuel Kattaya & Lennart Österman. Centre: Georgios Floros, Joey Staa, Hannah Herde & Else Lytken. Front: Xintong Yu, Frank Fielder, Nairit Sur & Lara Calic. Photo: Johan Lindskoug. The global scientific community celebrates a major achievement as CERN’s four fl

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/cerns-breakthrough-physics-prize-highlights-lund-universitys-global-impact - 2025-08-15

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson & Jessika Sellergren) - published 6 February 2023 Ville Maisi and Martin Bech have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. Photo: Kennet Ruona/Till Dreier Ville Maisi and Martin Bech have been awarded prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants. Over a five-year period, the two researchers will conduct projects focusing on

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-consolidator-grants-detection-microwave-photons-and-x-ray-microscopy - 2025-08-15

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 31 March 2023 The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences goes in this fifteenth edition to Anne L’Huillier and her companions in the pioneering field of “attophysics”, Paul Corkum and Ferenc Krausz. Photo: Kennet Ruona For her pioneering work in attosecond physics, Anne L’Huillier is one of the

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-new-frontiers-knowledge-awardee - 2025-08-15

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/when-municipalities-set-research-agenda - 2025-08-15

Published 7 October 2016 12-13 October at the IIIEE On 12-13 October, three trial lectures will take place at the IIIEE for the position as “Professor in sustainable business management and practice - for a transition to low-carbon and resource efficient economies”.As part of the recruitment process for the position as “Professor in sustainable business management and practice - for a transition t

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/trial-lectures-position-professor-sustainable-business-management-and-practice-transition-low-carbon - 2025-08-15

By alexander [dot] doyle [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexander Doyle) - published 22 October 2020 Researcher Els Mansell, first author of the article published in Cell Stem Cell. In a collaborative study, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center and University College London have developed a novel method of isolating ‘young’ stem cells still present in old mice. They show that activity of mitochondr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/novel-approach-identifies-young-stem-cells-old-mice - 2025-08-15

Published 6 September 2021 Trevor Forsyth. Photo: Kennet Ruona. Lund University has recruited Trevor Forsyth to lead the development of LINXS, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. He also takes up the position as professor of biophysics at the Faculty of Medicine. This strategic recruitment is part of Lund University's efforts to develop new research using neutron and synchrotron

https://www.science.lu.se/article/top-international-researcher-will-maximise-potential-max-iv-and-ess - 2025-08-15

https://www.science.lu.se/article/pandemic-restrictions-enabled-unique-bird-study - 2025-08-15

https://www.science.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-08-15

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