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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 - 2025-10-27

Our muscles enable us to breathe, move and run. Exercise improves our health and can even prevent many diseases. “I think that the importance of muscle in our overall physiology has been underestimated”, says Jorge Ruas, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and recipient of the Leif C Groop award for outstanding diabetes research. According to the motivation, in Ruas’ work, “a met

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/leif-c-groop-award-outstanding-diabetes-research-jorge-ruas-karolinska-institutet - 2025-10-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/people-are-willing-pay-curate-their-online-social-image - 2025-10-27

A prize worth SEK 1 million for outstanding and groundbreaking research, and a full day dedicated to popular science and interdisciplinary lectures in economics. This is the result of the generous donation from the Jan and Åsa Söderberg family to the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden. “For several years, we have supported the School of Economics and Management in differ

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-international-prize-lund-university-school-economics-and-management - 2025-10-27

https://www.ai.lu.se/article/season-greetings-ai-lund - 2025-10-27

Through a detailed study of leukaemia cells from more than 200 children, a research group at Lund University in Sweden has discovered two new types of childhood leukaemia. Using next-generation sequencing technology (NGS), the researchers were able to study the genome of cancer cells, which is how they discovered the new types of cancer. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is a rare disease, but the mos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-types-blood-cancer-discovered-children - 2025-10-27

Copying the behaviour of others makes us effective learners and allow skills, knowledge and inventions to be passed on from one generation to the next. Imitation is therefore viewed as the key cognitive ability that enabled human culture to grow and create such things as language, technology, art and science. Decades of research has shown that apes, in spite of their proverbial aping abilities, ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/both-chimpanzees-and-humans-spontaneously-imitate-each-others-actions - 2025-10-27

Urban Transition Öresund: Comparison of cost models supports retrofitting Copenhagen city is one of many European cities in need of energy retrofitting for its many older apartment buildings. But the related high costs tend to slow down the work. With IIIEE researchers contribution on knowledge of the pros and cons of different financing models, Copenhagen is advancing its work.Most European citie

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-bernadett-kiss - 2025-10-27

A new study from Lund University and Region Skåne in Sweden indicates that potency-enhancing PDE5 inhibitor drugs have an anti-cancer potential with the ability to improve the prognosis in patients with colorectal cancer. PDE5 inhibitors include a few approved drugs in which sildenafil (Viagra) is the most well-known. The article is published in Nature Communications. “Available preclinical eviden

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/potency-enhancing-drugs-linked-decreased-risks-men-colorectal-cancer - 2025-10-27

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-clinical-method-could-lower-risk-recurring-heart-attacks - 2025-10-27

A donation of SEK 76 million from Birgit Rausing will enable Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine to establish the humanities as an integrated part of medical training and research. This is a long-term investment, focusing on interpersonal relations between care providers and care recipients within all the faculty’s disciplines. Both research and education will be included in the new interdiscipl

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-receives-donation-medical-humanities - 2025-10-27

The University has decided to be an important player at Science Village Scandinavia (SVS) in Brunnshög. The move will, probably, commence in five years. Up to 575 LU employees will work at SVS. The Department of Physics and parts of the Department of Chemistry are now considering moving. Sven Lidin Photo:Mats Nygren The type of presence LU will have at SVS in the long term – 30 years from now – wi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lu-moves-activities-science-village-scandinavia-financing-still-unclear - 2025-10-27

Europe's largest respiratory society, ERS, has awarded its winners for 2021. By doing so the society wishes to recognise the achievements of leaders in the field of respiratory medicine. The Mid-Career Gold Medal in Asthma for 2021 went to EMV´s own Lena Uller, Professor in Immunology. It´s a very prestigious award! Warm congrats, Lena! ­– Thank you so much, I feel overwhelmed. Especially now afte

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/european-gold-medal-respiratory-medicine-awarded-professor-lund - 2025-10-27

Recent studies indicate that acquired brain injuries, such as traumatic brain injury, trigger potentially harmful responses that may lead to neurodegenerative pathology. “Acquired brain injuries and their links to neurodegeneration diseases” is a new special interest group (SIG) collaborating across research groups to elucidate molecular processes that may mediate the relation between acquired bra

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/acquired-brain-injuries-special-interest-group - 2025-10-27

Peptides from the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus speed up the pathological aggregation of α-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease. This was discovered by researchers at MultiPark and published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Staphylococcus aureus is carried by 30–70% of the general population as a commensal bacterium. It produces a special kind of peptides c

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/common-skin-bacteria-may-trigger-aggregation-parkinsons-disease-protein - 2025-10-27

Are you wondering what will happen after the fire at BMC on May 25th? Here are answers to some questions that have come up. Why didn't the fire alarm go off?Fire protection in our buildings consists of fire cell division, sprinklers, fire alarms and loose fire equipment, such as fire extinguishers. A fire cell can confine a fire to that cell for 60 minutes. The fire alarm is connected to the fire

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/fire-bmc-what-happens-now - 2025-10-27

Cake and a packed Rydberg Hall set the tone when Fysicum celebrated its 75th anniversary. The Department of Physics invited guests to a party, and the audience was treated to a dizzying journey through history, presented by Professor Erik Swietlicki. When Lund University was founded in 1666, there was no faculty of natural sciences. Instead, physics was part of the faculty of philosophy, and for a

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/fysicum-75-years-lively-anniversary-long-history - 2025-10-27

“Lundensare” Nobel Prize winner Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018) did not receive the prestigious Nobel Prize while living or working in Lund – but he is an alumnus! Carlsson grew up in Lund (which could clearly be heard in his Lund accent) and in 1951 he became a doctor of medicine at Lund University. He was employed as an associate professor of pharmacology and in 1959 he left for Gothenburg, where he

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winner-arvid-carlsson-7-things-you-perhaps-did-not-know-about-him-and-his-research - 2025-10-27

Ingegerd Wirehed has been appointed to the newly established position of information security coordinator at the University. The position is based at LDC, LU’s central unit for IT services. However, Ingegerd explains that information security it not purely an IT issue, but rather a strategic area for the entire organisation in which information owners and others need to obtain support and assistan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingegerd-wirehed-first-information-security-coordinator - 2025-10-27

It was not an entirely uncontroversial decision to gather cancer researchers in the abandoned AstraZeneca premises ten years ago. Carl Borrebaeck was pro vice-chancellor at the time and pushed for the move which in itself cost SEK 50 million in central university funds. “I was not very popular with the deans at that time,” he says. “But now it turns out that Medicon Village is a great success and

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/medicon-village-ten-years-after-start - 2025-10-26