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In certain forms of cancer, connective tissue forms around and within the tumour. One previously unproven theory is that there are several different types of connective tissue cells with different functions, which affect the development of the tumour in different ways. Now, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has identified three different types of connective tissue cells. In studies of b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/wrong-connective-tissue-cells-signal-worse-prognosis-breast-cancer-patients - 2025-11-07

Researchers have succeeded in converting human skin cells into blood stem cells in an international collaboration project. “This is a first step on the way to generating fully functional blood stem cells in a petri dish which, in the future, could be transplanted into patients with blood diseases”, says Filipe Pereira, the researcher from Lund University in Sweden who led the study now published i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-turning-skin-cells-blood-stem-cells-uncovered - 2025-11-07

The remains of an 180 million-year-old ichthyosaur (literally ‘fish-lizard’) have been analysed, and the fossil is so well-preserved that its soft-tissues retain some of their original pliability. The study, published in Nature, contributes to our understanding on how convergent evolution works, and shows that ichthyosaurs adapted to marine conditions in a way that is remarkably similar to that of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/remarkably-preserved-fossil-sea-reptile-reveals-skin-still-soft - 2025-11-07

Fruit flies can be a scourge in our homes, but to date no-one has known how they became our uninvited lodgers. For decades, researchers have searched for their origins and now a Swedish-American research team has succeeded. They have also discovered that fruit flies in the wild are far more picky than their domesticated counterparts, a factor that long ago probably prompted the flies to move in wi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-fruit-flies-ended-our-fruit-bowls - 2025-11-07

A new EU project in the program area Öresund-Kattegatt-Skagerak (ÖKS) has been approved. Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS) will build a unique collaboration between Hamburg and South-West Scandinavia, bring together the four unique research facilities MAX IV, ESS, DESY and European XFEL, and create a centre for integrated, world-leading Life Science innovation and research. HALOS has a budget of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/halos-unique-collaboration-life-science - 2025-11-07

For the first time, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has successfully reprogrammed mouse and human skin cells into immune cells called dendritic cells. The process is quick and effective, representing a pioneering contribution for applying direct reprogramming for inducing immunity. Importantly, the finding opens up the possibility of developing novel dendritic cell-based immunotherapi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-code-reprogramming-immune-sentinels - 2025-11-07

Lund University (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Porto University (Portugal), Szeged University (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have decided to join forces to create a pilot project of a European University, an “Alliance for Global Health,” committed to higher education in global health and well-being challenges at the heart of European values. Better living togeth

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-and-four-other-major-research-universities-create-european-alliance-global-health - 2025-11-07

Heatwaves similar to those experienced in Europe in 2018 can have a very negative impact on animals. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that overheated birds have smaller offspring, and that those that are born may have lower chances of survival. Researchers were already aware that animals living in very warm regions of the globe are less active during the hottest hours of the day. N

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/more-heatwave-summers-will-affect-animals - 2025-11-07

NK cells, or natural killer cells, play an important role in the body’s defences against cancer and various infections. Now, in a joint project, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, the University of Oxford and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm have mapped how the different steps of the maturation process of these supercells from blood producing stem cells in the bone marrow are regulated: k

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/immune-systems-supercell-how-it-matures - 2025-11-07

The Swedish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Gebel el Silsila, Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson and John Ward from Lund University, has discovered an intact pharaonic chamber tomb – the first at the site, and a rare discovery in Egypt. The five-meter-deep shaft tomb has already unearthed the remains of 50 adults and 25 children, despite the fact that the archaeologists are still in the early stag

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/intact-mass-grave-discovered-ancient-egyptian-site - 2025-11-07

There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. The researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens to plastic in the ocean. The majority of all marine debris i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles-study-finds - 2025-11-07

All insects use vision to control their position in the air when they fly, but they also integrate information from other senses. Biologists at Lund University have now shown how hawkmoths use mechanosensors in their antennae to control fast flight manoeuvres. When the moths need to rapidly change direction and manoeuvre, for example to escape predators, their eyes are insufficient. Instead, the r

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/antennal-sensors-allow-hawkmoths-make-quick-moves - 2025-11-07

Lund University in Sweden has two new honorary doctors in science. One is an entertaining and creative circus artist in the subject of physics. The other is a chemistry professor who is passionate about providing students with an early link to qualified research. The Faculty of Science at Lund University has now announced its honorary doctors for 2019.One is Stanley Micklavzina, a physicist at the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-science-lund-university - 2025-11-07

Professor Marianne Bertrand at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the first recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Bertrand will receive the prize and hold a lecture on 12 March in Lund, Sweden. “Marianne Bertrand is one of the world’s most prominent applied micro-economists,” says Fredrik Andersson, dean at Lund University School of E

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/economist-focus-inequality-receives-new-swedish-prize-economics-and-management - 2025-11-07

A new, fossil-free bioplastic is emerging. According to lab experiments, it is more durable than both regular plastic and other bioplastics, and is potentially better suited for recycling. Almost all plastic is made from crude oil, and plastic production currently accounts for 4-6% of global oil consumption. The development of renewable bioplastics is progressing, but relatively few are actually b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/promising-bioplastic-derived-poo-molecule - 2025-11-07

A study by researchers from Sweden and Hungary shows that white, painted stripes on the body protect skin from insect bites. It is the first time researchers have successfully shown that body-painting has this effect. Among indigenous peoples who wear body-paint, the markings thus provide a certain protection against insect-borne diseases. Most of the indigenous communities who paint their bodies

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/body-painting-protects-against-bloodsucking-insects - 2025-11-07

The first position is within how biogeochemical cycles are influenced by climate and their potential feedback mechanisms, while the second position is connected to the project MYR, climate smart management practices Two PhD positions are available within BECCFirst one is within how biogeochemical cycles are influenced by climate and their potential feedback mechanisms, where we especially try to f

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-announces-two-phd-positions-gothenburg - 2025-11-07

Arctic climate change research relies on field measurements and samples that are too scarce, and patchy at best. The researchers in the BECC action group looked at thousands of scientific studies, and found that around 30% of cited studies were clustered around only two research stations in the vast Arctic region. A paper in Nature Ecology & Evoloution was one of the result from the action group "

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/agpatchy-field-sampling-biases-understanding-climate-change-impacts-across-arctic - 2025-11-07

The project Coastal adaptation to climate change by multiple ecosystem-based measures is multidisciplinary and involves partnership between natural science, social science, geotechnology, engineers, the citizens and public administration on all levels. Congratulations Johan Hollander and Pål Axel Olsson at the Department of Biology and Hans Hanson at the Division of Water Resources Engineering who

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-researchers-secured-funding-life-project - 2025-11-07

This year’s summer meeting in Höllviken used the theme ‘Land use and ecosystem-based climate adaptation’ as starting point for presentations and discussions. Inspiring talks by Terese Thoni (CEC, LU), Åsa Kasimir (Earth Sciences, GU) and Paul Miller (INES, LU) set the scene for eye-opening and fun discussions in an intense afternoon workshop led by Deniz Koca (CEC, LU), triggering reflections on l

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/climbeco-summer-meeting - 2025-11-07