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Each year, around 350 children in Sweden are diagnosed with cancer. Thanks to progress in research and treatment, six out of seven children today survive. But unlike cancer in adults, we don't know what causes most childhood cancers to develop. This spring Barncancerfonden, the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation, awarded SEK 64 million to 29 researchers across the country. The funding includes po
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the eight year in a row, Diabetes Research Day is arranged by the Diabetes Programme at Lund University. Apart from several scientific lectures, two awards are handed out. The award that is presented to a PhD student at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) this year goes to Cecilia Nagorny. She receives this yea
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/awarded-mapping-hormone-darkness - 2026-06-21
When humans are ill, we tend to be less active. This also applies to wild animals, but so far, it has not been known how long the reduced activity lasts or which activities are affected the most. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that birds' activity decreases for up to three weeks when they become ill - something that could mean the difference between life and death. The researche
https://www.science.lu.se/article/disease-affects-blackbirds-more-previously-thought - 2026-06-21
In mid-October, the vice-chancellor took the decision to implement a project entitled “The Workplace of the Future– – Sustainable and Hybrid.” The project will run until September 2022. The Covid-19 pandemic, which forced major changes to working life, is the reason why Lund University chose this year to initiate work on the Workplace of the Future. Earlier in the autumn, vice-chancellor Erik Rens
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-project-focus-lund-university-sustainable-and-hybrid-workplace - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 14 and 15 April, the School of Social Work, in collaboration with SASNET, hosted a workshop on nationalisms in South Asia. The convenors were Frank Korom from Boston University, Jan Magnusson from the School of Social Work and the Director of SASNET, Andreas Johansson. The core idea of the workshop was formed in op
https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/comparing-nationalist-actors-south-asia - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Congratulations to Cheng Luan, research engineer from China and postdoc in the research group Diabetes - Islet Patophysiology who is given the Chinese government award for outstanding self finance students abroad. – I would never forget how excited I was when I got the phone call from the Embassy of China in Sweden no
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/award-outstanding-chinese-student-abroad - 2026-06-21
355 participated in bioinformatic workshop! It's coffee break at the Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop which takes place in hybrid form with as many as 355 registered participants, of which about 100 were on site in Lund. Karin Engström, coordinator for LUBI and project manager for the two-day event, is pleased when she sees the participants flocking to the coffee tables: – It's fantastic that we
https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/sbw2021-article-newsletter-laboratory-medicine-0 - 2026-06-21
Autumn is underway, and Dean Per Persson highlights some of the key issues currently in focus for the faculty. Among other things, he writes about the research bill, the strong interest in visiting professorships, the work on gender equality and equal opportunities, and why it is important to keep the tradition of honorary doctors alive. The autumn term has begun, and in addition to everything tha
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/deans-corner-dean-persson - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The dance that binary stars do around each other offers new clues to the chemical evolution of our Galaxy, the Milky Way – so says a current research study. For the first time, researchers have identified the link between the orbiting times of certain binary stars and the amount of iron in in their interiors. Binary s
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/iron-binary-stars-reflects-galaxys-chemical-evolution - 2026-06-21
A unique long-term study, in which biological samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have collected samples every year from hundreds of blue tits in a single population at a local breeding area outside Lund. Th
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/warmer-nordic-springs-double-incidence-avian-malaria - 2026-06-21
The UN's annual climate summit, COP28, is just around the corner. Starting on 30 November, the world's countries will meet for two weeks to discuss global climate cooperation and how to achieve the climate goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This time the meeting will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We put five questions to Markku Rummukainen, Professor of Climatology at CEC and Sweden's re
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/five-questions-markku-rummukainen-ahead-cop28-climate-summit - 2026-06-21
A unique long-term study, in which samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden. Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have collected samples every year from hundreds of blue tits in a single population at a local breeding area outside Lund. This has prov
https://www.biology.lu.se/article/warmer-nordic-springs-double-incidence-avian-malaria - 2026-06-22
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Our brains not only contain learning mechanisms but also forgetting mechanisms that erase “unnecessary” learning. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has now been able to describe one of these mechanisms at the cellular level. The group’s results, published in the international journal Proceedings of the Nat
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/brain-forgets-order-conserve-energy - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A lack of professional project management, unclear decision-making processes and shortcomings in communication underpin delays in the beamline programme at MAX IV. A new plan of measures will prioritise tackling these problems. Ian McNulty is the acting director at MAX IV. “We must get more beamlines ready faster, and
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/better-project-management-get-max-iv-back-track - 2026-06-21
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 research. The village of Mehedeby, home to fewer than 600 residents, recently hosted a remarkable science conference titled "Quantum Redemption" in its 125-year-old Free Church. The conference, organized by Lund Unive
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/quantum-redemption-unique-intersection-science-and-history-mehedebys-free-church - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is growing evidence that Western welfare standards are not generalizable to the rest of the planet if environmental concerns, such as resource depletion or climate change, are considered. A new interdisciplinary anthology by researchers from Lund University raises the question of what is required to make welfare
https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/how-reach-ecologically-sustainable-welfare-societies - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Whose Museum x Krets: Max Ockborn WHOSE MUSEUM x KRETS 2019 AN EXHIBITION IN FIVE CHAPTERS OPENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 5–8 PM Consider for a moment that a museum is a living organism, their collections forming a body whose relationships compel them to move and to act. Who will they become?In 2019, KRETS will be run
https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/alumni-max-ockborn-1 - 2026-06-21
The Conversation is an online news outlet written by researchers, working together with professional journalists. All content is published as open source and the website’s articles reach a total audience of 10 million readers – every month. Associate Professor Sverre Spoelstra is one of the LUSEM researchers who has chosen to write for The Conversation. The Conversation is an online news outlet wr
https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/sverre-spoelstra-how-researchers-reach-global-audience-conversation - 2026-06-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used the MAX IV synchrotron in Lund – the strongest of its kind in the world - to produce images that predate the formation of toxic clumps of beta-amyloid, the protein believed to be at the root of Alzheimer’s disease. The unique images appear to contradict a previously u
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/never-seen-images-early-stage-alzheimers-disease - 2026-06-21
