Published 3 October 2014 A simple ”smart control” box invented by a PhD student at Lund University in Sweden has made it possible to connect solar panels to your boiler - without making any changes to the existing hot water system. WATCH: How new technology is making domestic solar power use cheaper and easier ”With current technology, if you want to install a solar panel and connect it to your ho

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/solar-energy-can-now-heat-your-shower - 2025-07-27

Published 6 October 2014 Alex Evilevitch Viruses can convert their DNA from solid to fluid form, which explains how viruses manage to eject DNA into the cells of their victims. This has been shown in two new studies carried out by Lund University in Sweden. Both research studies are about the same discovery made for two different viruses, namely that viruses can convert their DNA to liquid form at

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/liquid-dna-behind-virus-attacks - 2025-07-27

Published 6 October 2014 By studying identical twins, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have identified mechanisms that could be behind the development of type 2 diabetes. This may explain cases where one identical twin develops type 2 diabetes while the other remains healthy. The study involved 14 pairs of identical twins in Sweden and Denmark. One twin had type 2 diabetes and the other

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/study-identical-twins-reveals-type-2-diabetes-clues - 2025-07-27

Published 10 October 2014 A previously unknown mechanism through which the brain produces new nerve cells after a stroke has been discovered at Lund University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings have been published in the journal SCIENCE. A stroke is caused by a blood clot blocking a blood vessel in the brain, which leads to an interruption of blood flow and therefore a shortage of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-repairs-brain-after-stroke-discovered - 2025-07-27

Published 13 October 2014 Jia-Yi Li Parkinson's disease may start in the gut Parkinson's disease is strongly linked to the degeneration of the brain’s movement center. In the last decade, the question of where the disease begins has led researchers to a different part of the human anatomy. In 2003, the German neuropathologist Heiko Braak presented a theory suggesting that the disease begins in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/disputed-theory-parkinsons-origin-strengthened - 2025-07-27

Published 14 October 2014 Anders Rosengren Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are testing a treatment for type 2 diabetes which targets the disease mechanism itself - and not just the symptoms. For the first time, knowledge about the individual patient’s genetic risk profile is being used. The treatment completely restores the capacity to secrete insulin, which is impaired by the risk gene.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/personalised-treatment-stress-related-diabetes - 2025-07-27

By minna [dot] wallen-widung [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Minna Wallen-Widung) - published 9 January 2025 Anamaria Dutceac Segesten was recently back in the studio to record updated lecture material on large language models for the ‘AI, business and the future of work’ MOOC. Photo: Petter Wärnsberg Lund University’s fastest growing online course can have up to a thousand new participants

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/tens-thousands-sign-ai-related-mooc - 2025-07-27

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 10 February 2025 In a large international study the researchers found that analysis by the AI led to 14 times fewer missed diagnoses of severe arrhythmias. Photo: Bild: iStock/alexaldo. In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-07-27

By erika [dot] svantesson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Erika Svantesson) - published 4 February 2025 Pre-cancerous lesions, known as in situ cancers, were also more likely to be detected with AI – 51 per cent more such cases were found (68 people compared with 45). Photo: iStock New research results now published from Lund University’s MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/ai-supported-breast-cancer-screening-new-results-suggest-even-higher-accuracy - 2025-07-27

Published 27 November 2023 To most effectively deliver aid to alleviate poverty, you have to know where the people most in need are. In many countries, this is often done with household surveys. But these are usually infrequent and cover limited locations.Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created a step change in how to measure poverty and other human development indicators. Our

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/conversation-how-ai-sees-world-what-happened-when-we-trained-deep-learning-model-identify-poverty - 2025-07-27

Published 25 April 2024 Every year, the Swedish Riksdag organises a research day. This year the theme was “artificial intelligence”. The aim is to give Members of Parliament the opportunity to gain new knowledge and to highlight the value of science for politics, democracy, and parliamentary decision-making. This year, Johan Axhamn, senior lecturer in Business Law here at LUSEM, was the sole repre

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/johan-axhamn-represented-lund-swedish-riksdags-seminar-ai - 2025-07-27

By Jonas [dot] Wisbrant [at] cs [dot] lth [dot] se (Jonas Wisbrant) - published 24 November 2017 A super-efficient quantum computer – one of the hopes associated with the quantum technology investment. Connecting many quantum bits is relatively easy, but controlling quantum states and errors is challenging. Photo: Johan Bodell/Chalmers. Developments in quantum technology and artificial intelligenc

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/billions-be-invested-ai-and-quantum-technology - 2025-07-27

Published 5 August 2018 Stefan Larsson, digitaliseringsforskare och lektor vid avd för fastighetsvetenskap, skriver i Sydsvenskan tillsammans med bland andra Anna Felländer (regeringens digitaliseringsråd, m.m.), Fredrik Heintz (AI-forskare och ordförande i svenska AI-sällskapet) och Rebecka Cedering Ångström om behovet av breddad kompetens inom AI. "För att omfamna och frigöra den positiva krafte

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/debattartikel-om-behovet-av-breddad-kunskap-inom-artificiell-intelligens - 2025-07-27

Published 28 August 2018 We recently released STRUDL, a software program for automatically creating world coordinate trajectories of road users from surveillance videos, based on a neural network object detector and tracking. It is available for free and as an open source by clicking here. STRUDL was made as a part of a collaboration between Lund University, Aalborg University and TNO. A paper des

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/strudl-new-open-source-software-package-tracking-objects-video - 2025-07-27

By jessica [dot] bloem [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessica Bloem) - published 11 December 2018 Christian Balkenius Bild: Jessica Bloem. Christian Balkenius började vid Lunds universitet 1988. Då var AI-forskningen inriktad på att göra datorsimuleringar över emotionella processer. – Vi hade inga riktiga robotar som vi gjorde försök med, utan de kom först en bit in på 90-talet. Då handlade

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/kognitionsvetenskap-drommen-om-en-mansklig-robot - 2025-07-27

By jessica [dot] bloem [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessica Bloem) - published 11 December 2018 Maria Hedlund. Bild: Jessica Bloem. "Det är viktigt att koppla ihop AI med demokrati eftersom det handlar om vilket samhälle vi vill ha, vilka möjligheter vi har att påverka och hur vi fattar våra beslut", säger statsvetaren Maria Hedlund. Som forskare har hon tittat särskilt på beslutsprocesse

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/rostande-robotar-och-filterbubblor-hur-mycket-ai-tal-demokratin - 2025-07-27

Published 11 December 2018 Robert Willim forskar om uppkopplade hem. Bild: Johan Bävman. Det uppkopplade hemmet är redan här. Men hur mycket avkall på integriteten är vi beredda att göra för högre komfort? Den och andra frågor ställer sig etnologen Robert Willim i ett nytt forskningsprojekt som rör AI i vår hemmiljö. – Jag är nyfiken på att förstå den digitala tekniken och hur den gradvis förändra

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/uppkopplat-hemma-komfort-kan-ga-fore-integritet - 2025-07-27

By jessica [dot] bloem [at] kommunikation [dot] lu [dot] se (Jessica Bloem) - published 11 December 2018 Roboten på bilden heter AIBO ERS-7 och var en av de mest populära experimentella plattformarna för intelligent robotik mellan 1998 och 2006. Numera pensionerad. Bild: Jessica Bloem. Professor Jacek Malec kom till institutionen för datavetenskap 1999. Då hade AI-forskningen där pågått under fler

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/datavetenskap-vi-vill-bygga-smarta-och-hjalpsamma-robotar - 2025-07-27

Published 11 December 2018 Bilden visar en så kallad samarbetsrobot som i det här fallet har ögon (kameran längst upp) och läser en text. Bild: Martin Karlsson Sysslar man med att få system att sköta sig själva, exempelvis vattenrening, farthållare i bilar eller temperaturreglering, faller det sig naturligt att snegla på möjligheterna med konstgjord intelligens. För vad vore bättre än processer so

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/reglerteknik-vi-var-lite-tidigt-ute - 2025-07-27

Published 11 December 2018 Carsten Peterson började tidigt intressera sig för neuronnätverk. Bild: Kennet Ruona. Forskare inom teoretisk fysik i Lund var tidigt ute med att skapa artificiella neuronnätverk, det vill säga den typ av algoritmer som nu ligger till grund för den enorma AI-utvecklingen i samhället. Inom teoretisk fysik är man van vid att hitta mönster i stora datamängder med hjälp av a

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/natverken-som-harmar-hjarnan-idag-forandrar-de-varden - 2025-07-27