Foto: iStock/Magda Tymczyj. The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-guidelines - 2025-09-05

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-drink-keeps-blood-sugar-check - 2025-09-05

Seibatu Sia Kemoh is 26 years old and works as a community health officer. She recently completed the two-year training programme in surgery and is ready to perform operations in the countryside of Sierra Leone. Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths an

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-09-05

Fluorescent microscope image of control MBP-positive oligodendrocytes (in green) co-stained with alpha-synuclein (in red). It is possible to observe neurites positive for alpha-synuclein. Photo Credit: Carla Azevedo. Researchers from Lund University, led by Dr. Laurent Roybon, are working to further define underlying mechanisms involved in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s Disease an

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-findings-may-lead-way-future-therapeutic-approaches-parkinsons-disease-and-similar-diseases - 2025-09-05

In May, Salma Mahamed, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio, Marta Pitino and Ismail Bazine participated in our third doctoral course, coordinated by the University of Gothenburg: ‘Making Foreign Aid Work: Managing tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches’. The participants took part in online literature seminars, but also our onsite workshop in Gothenburg.  The course brought together both doctoral

https://www.developmentresearchschool.lu.se/article/salma-mahamed-i-found-it-very-meaningful-discuss-practitioners-field - 2025-09-05

Peace-building, mediation and justice issues have always been on the agenda. But the researcher path was not the obvious choice for Karin Aggestam, who has now been appointed to the prestigious Pufendorf chair. She is both the first woman and the first political scientist to obtain it – and she hopes to pave the way for an international Master’s programme in diplomacy. Karin Aggestam will be insta

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/peace-and-justice-always-agenda-new-pufendorf-professor - 2025-09-05

The relocation of the specialised centres to the faculties which is currently underway within LU has generated concern and discussion. “But once you know where you are moving, a calmer and more constructive phase begins”, says Bo Ahrén, chair of the University’s specialised centres. But Merle Jacob, professor of research policy, finds the path to the right faculty to be rather long and uncertain a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/calmer-phase-after-turbulence-centres-moving-faculties - 2025-09-05

Fifty per cent of all pregnant women in need of a C-section are unable to get one. Most people around the world still do not have access to safe surgery, resulting in millions of deaths and disabilities each year. As a paediatric surgeon, Lars Hagander wanted to find ways to help, and has travelled the world to perform surgery. But, of course, this is not enough. A major change is needed. Seibatu

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2025-09-05

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fast-and-secure-computer-power-when-needed - 2025-09-05

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/huntingtons-complex-brain-disease-affects-movement-thoughts-and-feelings - 2025-09-05

Off the coast at Haväng, forests several thousands of years old are hidden below the sea. When researchers dive down to examine the well-preserved tree-trunks, they are literally diving deep into human history. Arne Sjöström gets ready for another sea dive. The morning sun is glittering on the calm surface of the Baltic Sea at Haväng in Österlen. Down on the beach, the researchers are preparing fo

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studying-stone-age-forest-under-sea - 2025-09-05

The nanolab is a laboratory that can characterize and create nanostructures at the atomic scale. You can for example grow nanotubes for purposes like precision medicine, energy harvesting, or more efficient electronics. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg A lab where you can “craft” new materials on the atomic level, bringing together cross-disciplinary scientists to produce nanomaterials and semicondu

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/making-it-big-nano-crafting - 2025-09-05

Sustainability science has a lot to bring to society by connecting science and society to analyse and develop sustainable pathways. Therefore, sustainability science invites us to look beyond our area of expertise, says Alicia N'Guetta. Photo: Pixabay. Alicia N'Guetta is a PhD student working across two LUCSUS projects, MaCoBios and DICE. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation, liveliho

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/alicia-nguetta-uses-gender-lens-study-impacts-climate-change-marine-coastal-ecosystems - 2025-09-05

Eating according to new dietary recommendations reduces premature deaths and greenhouse gas emissions. Agenda 2030 PhD student Anna Stubbendorff compared seven dietary indices to find a good way to measure how we eat in relation to the recommendations. The Planetary Health Diet. That's the diet that will keep us healthy and put food on the table for a future world population of 10 billion. But wil

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/stubbendorffs-index-paves-way-sustainable-healthy-diets - 2025-09-05

Brunnshög in north-east of Lund is no ordinary construction site – a world-leading environment for research and innovation is emerging here. The nanolab is paving the way for the university’s establishment at Science Village between MAX IV and ESS. The procurement process is concluded. It has been decided that Vectura Fastigheter will host Lund University’s Nanolab Science Village, a lab for manuf

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/vectura-landlord-future-nanolab-science-village - 2025-09-05

Tina Rönn, Charlotte Ling, and Karl Bacos have led the work on a study that examines whether epigenetic changes contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. Photo: Petra Olsson Do epigenetic changes cause type 2 diabetes, or do the changes occur only after a person has become ill? A new study by researchers at Lund University provides increased support for the idea that epigenetic changes can

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/epigenetic-changes-can-cause-type-2-diabetes - 2025-09-05

Anna Blom and Ben C King have discovered that C3 protein protects insulin-producing cells. Photo: Rebecca Rosberg Much research on diabetes focuses on understanding what happens when the insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Researchers at Lund University have instead chosen to investigate what protects the insulin-producing cells. Their research shows that a protein of the immune system protects

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/protein-protects-insulin-producing-cells - 2025-09-05

Vikas Yadav, Jan Nilsson, and Filiz Serifler at Lund University Diabetes Centre have contributed to the studies of the antibody that neutralises oxidised LDL particles. Photograph: Petra Olsson A treatment that has reduced plaque development in mice has now been tested in people with psoriasis. Jan Nilsson at Lund University is one of the researchers behind the clinical study that showed a reduced

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-treatment-atherosclerosis-may-reduce-risk-dying-heart-attack - 2025-09-05

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 - 2025-09-05

Four researchers have been awarded grants from The Bo and Kerstin Hjelt Diabetes Foundation. The grant consists of Euro 50 000 each and are aiming towards better treatments and prevention of type 2-diabetes. Improved life expectancy and quality of people with diabetesDiabetes affects millions of patients around the world. The two main types of the disease, type 1 and type 2, are both characterized

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/200000-euro-diabetes-research - 2025-09-05