Published 2 December 2016 In preparing for the University’s jubilee year which starts on 19 December, Lund University is now publishing a popular science book entitled “Lund University over 350 Years – History and Stories”. The book is about the University’s journey from a small provincial academy with 14 professors and 80 students to the major international university that it is today, recurrentl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/jubilee-book-highlights-history-lund-university-popular-form - 2025-07-25

Published 2 December 2016 Yang de Marinis With the help of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene scissors, researchers at Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden have managed to “turn off” an enzyme that proved to play a key role in the regulation of the diabetes-associated TXNIP gene. The results are decreased cell death and increased insulin production in the genetically modified pancreatic beta cells. In a re

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/crispr-editing-pancreatic-cells-reduced-cell-death-and-increased-insulin-secretion - 2025-07-25

Published 2 December 2016 Anders Håkansson (Photo: Apelöga) Anders Håkansson, of Lund University, will be the first professor of medicine in Sweden to focus specifically on gambling addiction. Research into gambling addiction and gambling problems has been enabled by an initiative financed by state-owned company Svenska Spel. The initiative began in 2015 when Anders Håkansson was appointed as a se

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/swedens-first-professor-medicine-specialising-gambling-addiction - 2025-07-25

Published 6 December 2016 Together with his research team, Lars-Erik Wernersson, professor of nanoelectronics at Lund University in Sweden, has developed a technology for smarter transistors which could be used in electronics that operate on low energy, such as sensors for the Internet of Things. Using the new transistors on a large scale could save enormous amounts of energy. Transistors are the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/smarter-transistors-could-be-three-times-more-energy-efficient - 2025-07-25

Published 7 December 2016 Could online shopping help boost city centres in decline? Engineering students at Lund University in Sweden want to reinvent city commerce by bringing local shops together through a single app. WATCH VIDEO STORYMany shopping districts have experienced a decrease in revenue as customers increasingly turn to shopping malls and e-commerce.When Victor Sandberg wrote his Maste

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-save-your-city-centre-shopping-online - 2025-07-25

Published 8 December 2016 (Photo: Mostphotos) Researchers at Lund and Malmö universities in Sweden have measured a biomarker in cell-free blood plasma which can be linked to an overactive stress system in suicidal individuals. This biomarker can hopefully be used in future psychiatric studies. “We don’t expect the marker to be able to predict who will try to commit suicide, but it may serve as a b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-biomarker-higher-suicide-attempters-and-associated-stress-response - 2025-07-25

Published 9 December 2016 Swedish road freight companies that abide by work environment legislation, taxation regulations and environmental agreements have had a hard time surviving on a market where illegal transport operators can perform the same services at a much lower cost. A new app being developed at Lund University in Sweden makes the entire chain of transport visible to consumers. WATCH V

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-new-app-makes-transport-industry-transparent - 2025-07-25

Published 12 December 2016 Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law have launched a new human rights hub. The Lund Human Rights Research Hub is meant to be a core driver in developing new research, education, and dissemination of human rights to meet the most pressing human rights challenges of today. The hub was officially launched on December 8.Jona

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-human-rights-research-hub-launched-lund - 2025-07-25

Published 15 December 2016 Helena Jernström and Karin Elebro It is known from previous research that the ER-beta estrogen receptor often has a protective effect. A new study from Lund University in Sweden has found that this effect is more pronounced in patients that undergo chemotherapy. “If the finding is confirmed in further studies, it could contribute to women with the highest risk getting mo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breast-cancer-study-predicts-better-response-chemotherapy - 2025-07-25

Published 19 December 2016 Photo: Jonas Andersson With a ceremony inside the main University building, Lund University’s 350th anniversary has now officially begun, and the extensive jubilee programme packed with more than 250 public events over the next 13 months has been released. The jubilee will last from 19 December 2016 until 28 January 2018, and these dates are based on the founding and ina

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-celebrates-350-years - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 2 May 2024 Protein Production Sweden (PPS), which LP3 is part of, has now reached its second birthday: two years of successful operation and PPS is growing! In 2023, the research infrastructure received a whopping 197 project applications, a 40% increase from the previous year. The number of principal invest

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/ppss-first-two-years - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 3 June 2024 EATRIS ERIC is the European infrastructure for translational medicine and brings together resources and services for research communities. EATRIS (see external web page) provides access to a vast array of pre-clinical and clinical expertise and facilities that are available from over 150 top-tier

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/pps-now-associated-academic-centre-eatris - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 25 June 2024 LP3 outreach at the 27th Swedish Conference on Macromolecular Structure & Function (SWEPROT) Sweprot (see external homepage) is the annual meeting of the Swedish society for biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology (SFBBM, see external homepage), a section of the Swedish Chemical Society a

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-conference-tallberg - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 14 August 2024 PPS, including LP3, attended the P4EU meeting earlier this summer at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany. P4EU (Protein Production and Purification Partnership in Europe, see external webpage) is a professional network, whose members engage in various aspects o

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/pps-p4eu-conference - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 15 October 2024 The distributed national research infrastructure Protein Production Sweden (PPS), where LP3 is included, met for its third annual staff retreat at Skeppsviks Herrgård near Umeå. The 23 staff researchers of PPS attending used the two day meeting to discuss and reflect about the first 2.5 years

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-participated-annual-pps-retreat-umea - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 24 October 2024 LP3 is one of three major university research infrastructures selected as university platforms by our rector. The appointment signals that these research infrastructures have high strategic importance for the entire university. The appointments are based on a number of criteria, for example t

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lund-university-has-selected-lp3-become-university-platform - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 29 October 2024 LP3 now has a demo unit of Fidabio (Fida Neo instrument) for Flow Induced Dispersion Analysis for protein sample quality, which is available for evaluation purposes the next 3 months. The analysis of sample gives an indication of the protein's health, oligomeric state/complex formation, if it

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/free-testing-flow-induced-dispersion-analysis-now-lp3 - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 18 November 2024 Four of LP3’s staff participated in the first SciLifeLab Lund retreat in Båstad, 14 to 15th November 2024 with the theme: “Achieving Excellence Together”. The retreat was focused on giving the staff from all SciLifeLab site platforms the opportunity to get to know each other through presenta

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/lp3-first-scilifelab-lund-retreat - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 21 November 2024 The Swedish NMR Centre in Gothenburg will host a workshop on cell-free protein synthesis, with special focus on applications in NMR spectroscopy. The workshop, which is held in Gothenburg 21-23 Jan 2025 will entail both lectures and practical wet lab work. The idea is that participants bring

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/cell-free-protein-synthesis-workshop-january-2025 - 2025-07-25

By anna [dot] rasmussen [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Andersson Rasmussen) - published 21 January 2025 SciLifeLab Lund, which Lp3 is part of, arranges interesting seminars with presentations of its different units and local core facilities together with user presentations. So please take the opportunity to learn more of our different services which could be useful in you research. The SciLifeL

https://www.lp3.lu.se/article/welcome-scilifelab-seminars - 2025-07-25