Published 16 December 2019 Illustration: Mostphotos Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise in general – with anti-scientific attitudes increasingly influencing politics. So why can’t we stop such views from spreading

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conspiracy-theories-how-belief-rooted-evolution-not-ignorance - 2025-07-05

Published 17 December 2019 Céline Fernandez (Photo: Sara Liedholm) Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2025-07-05

Published 17 December 2019 Photo: Unsplash A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably more than previously thought. Among other things, the insects are a factor in the leaching of nutrients from soil and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. The researchers also establish that the temperature may rise as a result of an increase

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-eating-insects-disrupt-ecosystems-and-contribute-climate-change - 2025-07-05

Published 20 December 2019 Experiment set-up measuring how many blinks per minute a falcon perceives. (Photo: Simon Potier) Extremely acute vision and the ability to rapidly process different visual impressions – these two factors are crucial when a peregrine falcon bears down on its prey at a speed that easily matches that of a Formula 1 racing car: over 350 kilometres per hour. The visual acuity

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/falcons-see-prey-speed-formula-1-car - 2025-07-05

Published 20 December 2019 Anna Häger Glenngård and Sixten Borg. (Photo: Louise Larsson) The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2025-07-05

Published 20 December 2019 Hans Nordegaard, Sylvaine Laulom, Anne Ruth Mackor Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General in

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Published 8 January 2020 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments. For that reason, experimental models are used, such as

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2025-07-05

Published 8 January 2020 Madelene Å Andersson, Sven Kjellström, Jitka Petrlova, Artur Schmidtchen, Ann-Charlotte Strömdahl, Manoj Puthia. (Photo: Olle Dahlbäck) Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2025-07-05

Published 9 January 2020 Different views and values within an organisation can complicate collaborations with other organisations. However, leaders who are prepared for this may be more successful in navigating their way through the storm unscathed. This is discussed in a newly published article by researcher Anna Brattström in the prestigious Academy of Management Journal. Hope and despair. These

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Published 16 January 2020 Immunofluorescence analysis of a melanoma tumor showing that B cells in B cell clusters express CXCR5, a marker for tertiary lymphoid structures. (Source: Göran Jönsson) Cancer patients responded better to immunotherapy and had a better prognosis if their melanoma tumours contained specific clusters of B cells, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The

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Published 27 January 2020 Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This yea

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Published 28 January 2020 Photo: Unsplash An international study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden shows that the rapid increase in land use in the world's tropical areas is affecting the global carbon cycle more than was previously known. By studying data from a new satellite imaging system, the researchers also found that the biomass in tropical forests is decreasing. Vegetation fi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/increasing-tropical-land-use-disrupting-carbon-cycle - 2025-07-05

Published 28 January 2020 Wenjing Yang The RISE Awards (Real Impact on Society and Environment) is a competition for students, aiming to showcase student talent in sustainability and innovation, and is organised by U21 (Universitas 21). All participating projects aim to contribute to attaining at least one of the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). Students from 16 member universities compe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-student-wins-international-round-u21-rise-awards-0 - 2025-07-05

Published 28 January 2020 The researchers have discovered that a substance in beetroot peels attract mosquitoes and can be used to trap them. Photo: Marcus Stensmyr Researchers from Sweden and the USA have discovered a substance in beetroot peel that is highly effective in combatting mosquitoes. The substance, geosmin, is extremely expensive and difficult to get hold of. The new discovery changes

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Published 29 January 2020 Photo: Mostphotos Within the framework of an international study, Lund University and Skåne University Hospital have started treating patients with hemophilia with gene therapy, something that began in January this year. The hope is that the new treatment will significantly simplify everyday life for those with severe hemophilia. Hemophilia is a genetic disease where the

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Published 30 January 2020 Emily O'Connor. (Photo: Aron Hejdström) Researchers have for the first time found a connection between the immune systems of different bird species, and the various climatic conditions in which they live. The researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe that as the climate changes, some birds may be exposed to diseases that they are not equipped to handle. The results

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/immune-systems-not-prepared-climate-change - 2025-07-05

Published 31 January 2020 Using water wisely will be increasingly important in the future, particularly within agricultural production. The agricultural water management research project WATERAGRI, which is coordinated by the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden, has been awarded SEK 74 million from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme with the aim to improve agricultural water managemen

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/agricultural-water-research-project-receives-large-eu-grant - 2025-07-05

Published 3 February 2020 Karin Lindkvist in the laboratory at MAXIV (Photo: Agata Garpenlind) In their quest to find new and better methods to make cancer cells more susceptible to treatment, Karin Lindkvist and her research group at Lund University in Sweden are looking into the world of molecules, using the X-rays at the MAX IV laboratory. The researchers believe that limiting the cells' access

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-believe-sugar-and-obesity-can-make-cancer-cells-more-difficult-kill - 2025-07-05

Published 4 February 2020 Photo: Mostphotos The Leif C. Groop Award for Outstanding Diabetes Research has been awarded to Niels Grarup of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen. His research has shown that there is a genetic explanation for the increase in type 2 diabetes in Greenland. The prize, worth SEK 100 000, is donated by the pharmace

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/award-research-increased-risk-type-2-diabetes-greenland - 2025-07-05

Published 6 February 2020 Photo: Mostphotos Psychology researchers from Lund University in Sweden, McGill University in Canada, and Royal Holloway in the UK, have found that a magic trick can lead Democrats and Republicans alike to believe that they are more open-minded towards opposing presidential candidates than they thought they were. The American voters who took part in the experiment were wi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/both-republicans-and-democrats-become-less-polarized-after-simple-magic-trick - 2025-07-05