Bild: iStock/KittiphatAbhiravorakul. Plantering av syntetiskt DNA, biometrisk utpressning av makthavare och genetisk hybridkrigföring. Det är några av de nya risker som har uppstått genom de forskningsframsteg som gjorts inom genetisk teknologi och kan utnyttjas i modern krigföring. Forskare vid Lunds universitet menar att vi behöver identifiera vilka de mest kritiska riskerna är och diskutera hur

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/risker-nar-ny-genteknik-anvands-i-hybridkrigforing - 2025-09-05

Foto: Nicolai Dürbaum, Unsplash I en hållbar utveckling av landsbygden är jaktturism en viktig pusselbit. Jaktturism kan skapa arbetstillfällen och bidra till att traditioner bevaras, men som företagare möter man också unika utmaningar, konstaterar forskarna i ett forskningsprojekt som finansierats av Naturvårdsverket. – Jakt handlar traditionellt om viltförvaltning och rekreation. Den som verkar

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Emily Boyd menar att det är viktigt att det blir nya pengar som finansierar fonden, snarare än att pengar omfördelas från klimatanpassningsåtgärder. Bild: UNFCCC COP27, 2022. Kiara Worth. På COP-mötets första dag i Dubai togs ett formellt beslut om att inrätta en fond för att stötta utvecklingsländer att hantera klimatskador. En pragmatisk framgång för klimaträttvisa menar hållbarhetsprofessorn Em

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Rättssociologen Karl Dahlstrand. Foto: Magnus Gudmundsson Uppsåt, skuld och motiv är begrepp som förekommer betydligt oftare än ondska inom juridiken. – Det handlar mer om att bedöma rätt eller fel, inte om att vara ond eller god, säger Karl Dahlstrand, universitetslektor och forskare i rättssociologi. Om vi går tillbaka i tiden förekommer där­emot begreppet ondska inom juridiken. I Romarriket exe

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Psykologiforskaren Magnus Lindén menar att makt kan ha en stark koppling till ondska. Foto: Jan Olsson Ofta kan en och samma handling ses som både ond och god. Allt beror på vilket perspektiv man har, offrets eller förövarens. Det menar Magnus Lindén, som i sin forskning inom psykologi bland annat intresserar sig för människans mörka sidor. – Jag menar att det inte går att tala om en människa som

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Statsvetaren Anders ­Uhlin menar att de indragna anslagen till utvecklingsforskning är ett utslag av ideologisk styrning från regeringen. Foto: Minna Wallén-Widung Vetenskapsrådets indragna anslag till utvecklingsforskning har drabbat forskare vid Lunds universitet hårt. – Det här har vi sett i andra länder där ytterhögerpartier har haft stort inflytande, säger Anders ­Uhlin, professor i statsvete

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/utvecklingsforskningen-hart-sargad-efter-indraget-stod - 2025-09-05

Martin Magnusson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Heart failure is an endemic disease affecting 250 000 Swedes. Despite new treatments such as modern medicines and defibrillators, the mortality rate is still high and the prognosis worse than for certain cancers. A new study from Lund University in Sweden now shows a link between cognitive impairment and an increased risk for rehospitalisation, or an early de

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/link-between-cognitive-impairment-and-worse-prognosis-heart-failure-patients - 2025-09-05

Wooden barrel with parts of the sturgeon (in orange) Photo: Brett Seymour Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned to offer when laying claim to the Swedish throne in 1495: a two-metre-long Atlantic sturgeon. The well-preserved fish remains were found in a wreck on the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, and species identification was made possi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/atlantic-sturgeon-kings-pantry-unique-discovery-baltic-sea-wreck-1495 - 2025-09-05

Upper row, from the left: Paul Bourgine, Alison Gerber, Pablo Villanueva Perez. Lower row, from the left: Emma Hammarlund, Rik Ossenkoppele, Nathalie Feiner. Colourful common wall lizards, an innovative X-ray microscope and advanced research on Alzheimer’s, leukaemia, photographic evidence and the origin of life. Six researchers from Lund University in Sweden have been granted five-year starting g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/six-lu-researchers-receive-erc-starting-grants - 2025-09-05

Photo: Alexios Matamis If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit when we sing – and by extension – if we contribute to the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-09-05

Birgit Rausing A donation of SEK 76 million from Birgit Rausing will enable Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine to establish the humanities as an integrated part of medical training and research. This is a long-term investment, focusing on interpersonal relations between care providers and care recipients within all the faculty’s disciplines. Both research and education will be included in the n

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-receives-donation-medical-humanities - 2025-09-05

The researchers tracked 102 common swifts on their journey to Africa (Photo: Aron Hejdström) Compared with other migratory birds, the common swift follows a very unusual pattern when it migrates from the breeding areas in Europe to its wintering locations south of the Sahara. This is what researchers have observed in a major eleven-year international study of the birds. “Our study is very signific

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/rare-pattern-observed-migrating-common-swifts - 2025-09-05

Charlotte Ling and Sonia Garcia Carlzon Metformin is the first-line drug that can lower blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients. One third of patients do not respond to metformin treatment and 5 per cent experience serious side effects, which is the reason many choose to stop medicating. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now identified biomarkers that can show in advance how the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/metformin-type-2-diabetes-patients-or-not-researchers-now-have-answer - 2025-09-05

Stephan Reber (Photo: Seth Burdick) Stephan Reber has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for Acoustics - for a 2015 study that involved an alligator inhaling helium. This was done to understand if crocodilians have resonances in their vocalizations, something that certain animals use to communicate body size. “I am extremely happy and grateful for this prize. As we all know, 2020 has been a year of ba

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lu-researcher-receives-ig-nobel-prize-alligator-helium-study - 2025-09-05

Lao Saal (Photo: Olle Dahlbäck) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a computational model which is effective in detecting and identifying genetic mutations in breast tumours. The study, the largest of its kind in the world, includes results from over 3 200 patients with breast cancer. The researchers used RNA sequencing, a sensitive, precise tool which has very gradually starte

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-analytical-model-detects-mutations-breast-cancer - 2025-09-05

Photo: Istock Anyone who can predict outcomes for Forex rates can earn considerable amounts of money. However, research shows this cannot be done reliably and should be avoided by serious corporations - as it does not generate any excess profit, according to two leading Lund University researchers in foreign exchange risk management. “It’s like looking into a crystal ball – with a little luck your

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-book-avoid-predicting-foreign-exchange-rates - 2025-09-05

Lund University has secured a spot on the Financial Times Master’s in Management 2020 ranking, with the fairly new Master’s in International Strategic Management programme placing 73rd. The Master’s in International Strategic Management was launched in 2016, and is based on a long tradition of education and research in strategic management. This is Lund University's second programme ranked by Fina

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Image: ESO A galactic journey spanning the history of the Milky Way. The supernatural powers of migratory birds. The art of seeing and controlling electrons. Three exciting research projects will soon commence at Lund University thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/research-projects-galaxies-migratory-birds-and-electrons-awarded-grants - 2025-09-05

Karin Hansson and Daniel Bexell (Photo: Åsa Hansdotter) A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the nervous

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2025-09-05

Anders Rosengren (Image: Johan Wingborg) Should patients with separate variants of type 2 diabetes be treated with different types of drugs? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Skåne University Hospital will attempt to answer that question in a new study. Type 2 diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world. It is estimated that over 300 million people have the disease glob

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-study-personalized-type-2-diabetes-treatment-launched - 2025-09-05