By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 13 June 2024 The ice line during a stellar outburst. Closest to the star, the solid material is dust, but outside the ice line, ice allows particles to grow larger. Illustration: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) How planets form is a question that has long vexed the world's astronomers. In recent yea

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/ice-plays-important-role-swelling-small-celestial-bodies-massive-planets - 2025-07-03

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 25 June 2024 One of the things the Lindau Meeting participants had the opportunity to experience in 2023 was a boat trip to Mainau. Photo: Julia Nimke/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. For the 73rd time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place 30 June–5 July 2024 in Bayern, Germany, by the beau

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/next-stop-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-07-03

By press [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 12 March 2025 Filipe Pereira, professor at Lund University, together with Cristiana Pires and Fábio Rosa founded Asgard Therapeutics AB. Photo: Tove Smeds. Asgard Therapeutics, in partnership with Lund University and Herlev Hospital, has been awarded €2.5 million for an EIC Transition project from the European Innovation Council. EIC Tra

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/innovative-cancer-cell-therapy-project-lands-eu25-million-eic-funding - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Bento Luis) - published 13 March 2025 In a recent study in mice, researchers at Lund University identified a gene that helps leukemia stem cells avoid detection by natural killer (NK) cells. Photo: Alexis Bento Luis. Leukemia stem cells have a clever survival strategy, they evade the body's immune defenses, making the disease difficult

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-leukemia-stem-cells-evade-immune-surveillance - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 19 March 2025 For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center welcomed 200 high school students from across southern Sweden to Lund University's Faculty of Medicine for UniStem Day 2025 on Friday, 14 March, 2025. For the tenth consecutive year, Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomed high school student

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/unistem-day-2025-decade-inspiring-future-scientists-lund - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 31 March 2025 Sofie Mohlin, a cancer researcher at Lund University, has been awarded a Cancerfonden Senior Investigator Award to support her research into how early genetic changes drive neuroblastoma development. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter. Lund University researchers have been awarded SEK 19 million in funding from Cancer

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/sofie-mohlin-receives-cancerfonden-senior-investigator-award-advance-childhood-cancer-research - 2025-07-03

By anna [dot] hellgren [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna Hellgren) - published 2 April 2025 Anna Falk, director of LU-ATMP, and Gisela Helenius, head of the ATMP center at Skåne University Hospital, want to develop the ATMP environment in Lund together with innovation players. Photo: Tove Smeds On April 9, Lund University's Pre-GMP Facility and Skåne University Hospital's ATMP Center - a joint rese

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/now-lunds-atmp-infrastructures-are-officially-open - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 16 April 2025 The Lund Stem Cell Center at Lund University welcomes the beginning of a new chapter with the appointment of its new leadership team. As of January 1, 2025, Professor Malin Parmar has assumed the role of Director, with Associate Professor Göran Karlsson stepping in as Deputy Director. Together, they bring

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/lund-stem-cell-center-welcomes-new-leadership-team - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 28 April 2025 Oxygen fluctuations on ancient shallow seabeds may have been crucial for the evolution of animal life. Photo: Mostphotos/MIRMAXSTOCK In a newly published study in Nature Communications, Emma Hammarlund and her research team at Lund University detail how daily fluctuations in oxygen levels influenced the r

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-how-dramatic-daily-swings-oxygen-shaped-early-animal-life - 2025-07-03

By alexis [dot] bento_luis [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Alexis Luis) - published 6 December 2024 "This collaboration is truly valuable and with high potential because it merges clinical, molecular, and computational expertise,” states Johan Jakobsson. Photo: iStock/Vitalii Gulenok A team of international researchers led by Professor Johan Jakobsson at Lund University has secured a 52 million SEK gr

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/52-million-sek-goes-uncovering-genetic-drivers-parkinsons-disease - 2025-07-03

By noomi [dot] egan [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 16 December 2024 "At heart I am a fundamental scientist. Getting to this stage and finding solutions to start clinical testing is very exciting to me," says Filipe Pereira, Professor in Molecular Medicine at Lund University. Photo: Johan Persson. – I have red cells in my dish! When the phone call from PhD student Fábio Rosa ca

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/tracing-academic-startups-journey-lab-discovery-cancer-therapy - 2025-07-03

By kommunikation [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Jonas Andersson) - published 26 April 2024 Marcus Dahlström himself has illustrated an atom that is dressed and entangled with an electron. Particles, sometimes a long way from one another, can be entangled. This strange phenomenon completely confounds our intuition, but the explanation for it has been provided through quantum mechanics. Researchers a

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-key-world-quantum-mechanics-intensity-light-affects-electrons-kinetic-energy - 2025-07-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 2 May 2024 The Gaia space telescope, launched in 2013, is mapping the Milky Way through astrometry. Photo: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier. Thanks to the Gaia space telescope, scientists have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way. The object, Gaia BH3, is located in the Eagle constellation, less tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/scientists-find-spectacular-black-hole - 2025-07-03

By armin [dot] tavakoli [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Armin Tavakoli) - published 13 August 2024 Free Church of Mehedeby, built in 1898. Google Maps knows it under the name “Quantum Church”. Photo: Armin Tavakoli. An extraordinary event has taken place this summer in a small, overlooked village north of Uppsala, blending the rich history of Swedish religious movements with cutting-edge quantum res

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-redemption-unique-intersection-science-and-history-mehedebys-free-church - 2025-07-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 21 August 2024 Artistic illustration of the ANDES (ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph) spectrograph. Image: ESO. In 2028, the first observations will be made at the world's largest optical telescope being built in Chile. It is now clear that the facility will be equipped with a powerful spectrograph tha

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/astronomers-develop-new-spectrograph-giant-telescope - 2025-07-03

By evelina [dot] linden [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 21 August 2024 Megan Hill, Jesús Carrero Robles, Jesper Wallentin, Ingrid Klint, Jesper Larsson, Aksel Mihailov, Filip Lenrick, and Huaiyu Chen are the four supervisors and four students in the Summer School Deep Dive into Synchrotron Analysis. Photo: Evelina Lindén A few sharp minds working together for almost an enti

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/mission-get-data-unstuck - 2025-07-03

By tiina [dot] meri [at] lth [dot] lu [dot] se (Tiina Meri) - published 26 August 2024 Science Village in north-east Lund will be an innovative and international meeting place for students, cutting-edge research and business. A new and expanded nano laboratory is planned in the area to complement Max IV and ESS. Illustration: TMRW/Science V Answers relating to diseases and accurately targeted drug

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-curiosity-driven-environment-new-nano-lab-one-cornerstones - 2025-07-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 5 September 2024 Artistic illustration of exoplanet. Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser. A team of researchers, led from Lund, has discovered a small planet that has a peculiar way of moving in its orbit. The wobbling planet TOI-1408c, located 455 light years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be far more complex t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-discovery-planet-wobbles - 2025-07-03

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 5 September 2024 Yuhe Zhang, PhD at the Department of Physics. Photo: private. Yuhe Zhang, a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Physics, has been awarded the Werner Meyer-Ilse Prize. She is honoured for her work on using deep learning for 2D, 3D and 4D X-ray images. Congratulations, how does it feel to rece

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/young-researcher-wins-prestigious-award - 2025-07-03

Published 9 September 2024 Photo: MostPhotos. A surprising behaviour of atoms is giving scientists new insights into one of the most fundamental phenomena in nature: the absorption of light. A new physical phenomenon for light pulses has been discovered. The study, published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters, was conducted by physicists at Lund University. In the world of atoms, t

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/atoms-absorb-energy-unexpected-ways - 2025-07-03