https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oat-oil-preparation-makes-you-feel-fuller - 2025-07-07

Published 11 December 2014 In the hunt for better knowledge on the aging process, researchers from Lund University have now enlisted the help of small birds. A new study investigates various factors which affect whether chicks are born with long or short chromosome ends, called telomeres. The genetic make-up of our cells consists of genes lined up on chromosomes. The ends of the chromosomes are ca

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https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-method-identifying-most-aggressive-childhood-cancers - 2025-07-07

By cornelia [dot] andersson [at] cfe [dot] lu [dot] se (Cornelia Andersson) - published 22 December 2022 Evelina Hagberg Evelina Hagberg has received the Centre for European studies' best thesis award 2022, for her Master’s thesis “…Thanks, but I’ll bypass: How state gatekeeping impacts regional bypassing in the EU”. The thesis analyses regional government mobilisation and participation in the EU.

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/evelina-hagberg-receives-cfes-best-thesis-award-2022 - 2025-07-07

By miriam [dot] sjodahl_jakobsen [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Miriam Sjödahl Jakobsen) - published 5 June 2022 Associate professor Christel Nielsen who works at the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Lund University has been appointed vice coordinator of the strategic research area EpiHealth. - EpiHealth is one of the reasons why I chose to move from Uppsala to do research at Lu

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/meet-our-new-vice-coordinator-epihealth-christel-nielsen - 2025-07-07

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 9 February 2023 Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash NOTE This call is closed, but there will be a new one soon. Check the webpage for new dates. Lund University and SRA EpiHealth has decided to support the next generation researchers in epidemiology through a call for project seeding funding that will cover salary costs

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/call-proposals-seed-funding-preparing-application-and-research-plan-writing-research-area - 2025-07-07

By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 10 June 2024 Photo: Jakob Dalbjörn/Unsplash A few questions to CASE's young future researchers before the big conference in Stockholm this week. Samantha Svärd, PhD student, Applied Gerontology. Photo: Private Samantha Svärdh, PhD student for the research group Applied Gerontology, Center for Ageing and Supportive Enviro

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/their-way-nordic-highlight-year - 2025-07-07

By lill [dot] eriksson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Lill Eriksson) - published 5 December 2024 Three CASE-researchers visited South Korea last week. They met with several colleagues from Korea University in Seoul to progress their work to develop joint projects, following a series of online meetings during the past year. Read their travelogue here. During our stay, we had the possibility to visit t

https://www.case.lu.se/en/article/visiting-super-ageing-society-asia - 2025-07-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/why-overfishing-leads-smaller-cod - 2025-07-07

By jan [dot] olsson [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Jan Olsson) - published 9 March 2021 A long-tailed tit. Photo: Wikimedia Long life is common among bird parents that get help with childcare. This finding comes from researchers at the universities of Lund and Oxford who reviewed data from more than 9,000 studies. Being a parent can be tough. In general, animals that care for many offspring die youn

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https://www.biology.lu.se/article/study-supports-theory-dragonflies-migrate-across-indian-ocean - 2025-07-07

By johan [dot] joelsson [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Johan Joelsson) - published 24 May 2022 Olivier Van Aken and Essam Darwish. Photo: Johan Joelsson. A 30-year-old genetic mystery has been solved. It has previously been established that touch can trigger stress reactions in plants. However, the molecular models for explaining this process have been quite spartan so far. Now researchers at Lun

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/what-happens-when-plants-have-stress-reactions-touch - 2025-07-07

By anders [dot] ortegren [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Örtegren) - published 10 February 2023 Many bird species in the tropics catch and eat damselflies and dragonflies. Here is a Rufous-tailed Jacamar that has caught a large dragonfly in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Photo: Erik Svensson. The size of dragonflies and damselflies varies around the globe. These insects are generally larger in

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/size-insects-are-shaped-temperature-and-predators - 2025-07-07

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/bird-feeding-helps-small-birds-fight-infection - 2025-07-07

By Lena [dot] Bjork_Blixt [at] science [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Björk Blixt) - published 16 August 2024 In the study, each bumblebee had a small tag attached to its back so that the researchers could distinguish the various individuals when testing their navigation ability. Photo: Rickesh Patel. Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new re

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Published 21 June 2011 Despite the disappointing results in trying to treat children suffering from type 1 diabetes with the GAD vaccine, the treatment has not been written off entirely. DIAPREV-IT, the study in which healthy high-risk children are vaccinated, is continuing as planned, and now with more money behind it. "I am still hopeful that the GAC vaccine will work", says Helena Elding Larsso

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/still-hope-gad-diabetes-vaccine - 2025-07-07

By kommunikation [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Björk Blixt) - published 5 November 2024 HREC the detector is inspected by Pavel Golubev. Photo: Dirk Rudolph. Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be the heaviest in the world so far: number 120. The search f

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/successful-experiment-paves-way-new-element - 2025-07-07

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-07-07