Published 9 May 2025 Researchers Maria Svensson Coelho and Hannah Blossom perform winter sampling of the green alga Chlamydomonas in Lake Krageholmssjön. (Photo: Karin Rengefors) Humans and animals are not the only ones affected by viruses. Unicellular organisms can also be attacked. In a new study, scientists establish that green algae can carry latent giant virus DNA in their genome. Biology res

https://www.science.lu.se/article/unicellular-green-algae-may-carry-giant-virus-dna-their-genome - 2025-05-09

Published 27 May 2024 Image from the visionary workshops held in April. Image by Cecilia Schubert (Communications Officer) The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September.

https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/name-suggestions-potential-joint-department - 2025-05-09

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Published 5 July 2024 Today and yesterday, approximately 160 housing offers were sent out. Applicants who have received an offer need to respond before Tuesday 9 July. All Guaranteed students have now received at least one housing offer. LU Accommodation sent out housing offers yesterday (4 July) and today (5 July), and have now sent out offers for all available accommodations. All applicants in t

https://www.luaccommodation.lu.se/article/second-round-housing-offers-sent - 2025-05-09

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By petra [dot] olsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Petra Olsson) - published 3 July 2024 Jan Nilsson's research group has identified a substance that stimulates the repair capacity and growth of vascular cells. Biomedical analyst Filiz Serifler has contributed to the project. Photo: Petra Olsson Heart attack and stroke are common complications of diabetes, as the body's ability to repair and form v

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-peptide-may-reduce-risk-diabetes-complications - 2025-05-09

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 7 March 2023 Is it possible to know exactly where to point a microscope in order to capture the precise moment a bacterium or a virus infects a cell? In order to take high resolution microscopic images of living biological material, you need to know exactly where to point the microscope. Researchers at Lund University in Swede

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/smart-microscopy-works-out-where-take-picture - 2025-05-09

Published 17 April 2019 In Skåne, newborn babies can be screened for type 1 diabetes and celiac disease (gluten intolerance). More than expected have been found to have an increased risk of developing these diseases, and about thirty children have already been recruited for research studies aimed at lowering this risk. The oral insulin is mixed with the food. Photo: Johan Bävman Large-scale screen

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/screening-finds-children-high-risk-type-1-diabetes-and-celiac-disease - 2025-05-09

By kristina [dot] lindgarde [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Lindgärde) - published 27 August 2020 Photo: Unsplash A unique study has analyzed in detail how EU agricultural subsidies flow down to the local level. The new data show that most income support payments go to intensively farmed regions already above median EU income, while climate-friendly and biodiverse farming regions, as well as

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/revealed-how-billions-eu-farming-subsidies-are-being-misspent - 2025-05-09

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Published 11 September 2015 What’s the point of having lots of higher education credits if you don’t use them to make the world a little better? Activism and academia go together, according to student Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. Johannes Witkowsky-Bengtsson. “As a child, I dreamed of fighting side by side with the Apache indians”, Johannes laughs. Now he is studying theology and sociology, and h

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/activism-and-academia-go-together - 2025-05-09

By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 29 January 2024 Judit Staller on Mid University. Photo: Private Last year SWEAH got a new partner university, Mid University in Sundsvall and Östersund. Judit Staller is a PhD student at the Department of Health Sciences (HOV) and is now celebrating her first year at the graduate school. How has the first time been?- I h

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/first-year-mid-university-and-judit-sweah - 2025-05-09

Published 2 June 2017 Andra Jugånaru comes from the threatened CEU university in Hungary. After three months as a visiting doctoral student at LU, she is not sure whether she will have any university to return to. Andra Jugånaru and Samuel Rubenson. Photo: Jenny Loftrup “If the university is closed down, it is a very big step backwards, a step towards the higher education of the Communist era in t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-community-deplores-threat-closure-hungarian-ceu - 2025-05-09

By sara [dot] liedholm [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Sara Liedholm) - published 14 December 2023 Photo: Tove Gilvad The street in front of the Clinical Research Centre (CRC) in Malmö is named after Professor Jan Waldenström. Who was he really? In a new biography, Professor Emeritus Frank Wollheim describes his life's work. "Jan Waldenström was an associate professor in Uppsala who, in 1943, describe

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/biography-jan-waldenstrom-legendary-teacher-ahead-his-time - 2025-05-09

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 23 February 2023 Bildkälla: iStock/Pedre During the fetal stage, a number of so-called cell programs run that are vital to the development of the fetus. In a study published in Cell Reports, researchers from Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University demonstrate that one of these fetal programs appears to protect against acute m

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-insights-fetal-development-may-protect-against-leukaemia - 2025-05-09

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallén-Widung) - published 8 June 2023 Fredrik N G ­Andersson is convinced that market economy is the way to deal with the climate crisis. Photo: Kennet Ruona Market economics, not degrowth, will enable sustainable societies. For economist Fredrik N G Andersson the answer is crystal clear – researchers advocating for degrowth

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/advocates-degrowth-miss-mark - 2025-05-10

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By ida [dot] thelander [at] er [dot] lu [dot] se (Ida Thelander) - published 24 August 2020 Arrival Days for international students were arranged on the 17th and 18th of August for those commencing their studies at Lund University in the autumn of 2020. Over the two days, 231 exchange students and 793 international Bachelor’s and Masters’ students arrived, which is around half the usual number of

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/arrival-day-international-students-now-they-are-here - 2025-05-09

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 26 November 2024 Bioelectrodes created in the brain of a chicken embryo using light (left), which provides control of the structure and the previous method without light (right). Figure: Fredrik Ek et al. Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancin

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/using-light-create-bioelectronics-inside-body - 2025-05-09