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https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2025-10-01

In recent years, researchers have discovered around 70 genetic risk variants for diabetes, but still TCF7L2, known as the diabetes gene, is the gene that carries with it the largest risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Using a new method called exon skipping, Ola Hansson at Lund University Diabetes Centre (LUDC) wants to learn more about TCF7L2 by studying new ways of delaying the onset of type 2 d

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/method-which-repairs-damaged-genes - 2025-10-01

“The increased risk of diabetes has previously been explained by the fact that cystic fibrosis causes damage to the pancreas, where the blood-sugar regulating hormone insulin is produced. We are the first research group to show that the mutated gene that causes cystic fibrosis also plays an important role in the release of insulin. The risk of diabetes is not only explained by the destruction of t

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/cystic-fibrosis-and-diabetes-link-explained - 2025-10-01

Veronika Burcar Alm, a teacher at the Department of Sociology, has this year been named Qualified Teaching Practitioner by the Faculty of Social Sciences' Teaching Academy. Meet the department's Qualified Teaching Practitioner Veronika Burcar Alm as she talks about her views on teaching and why she applied to the faculty's teaching academy.The faculty’s Teaching Academy is a means to promote teach

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/teaching-and-learning-interaction - 2025-10-01

Spy scandals as a power struggle between three actors: whistleblowers, journalists and the intelligence service. On Friday 1 October Alexandra Franzén at the Department of Sociology defended her doctoral thesis in sociology, which investigates three cases of spy scandals in Western democracies. Alexandra Franzén's thesis defence took place on Friday 1 October at 13:15 in Eden's Auditorium in Lund

https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/alexandra-franzen-has-defended-her-thesis - 2025-10-01

Linguist Niclas Burenhult has been awarded close to SEK 14 million by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for his field project Language as key to perceptual diversity: an interdisciplinary approach to the senses. “We like to believe that everyone perceives the world in the same way. But studying small and lesser-known languages and cultures reveals an incredible diversity in how people describe sensory imp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/language-key-understanding-diversity-our-senses - 2025-10-01

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fish-more-inclined-crash-bees - 2025-10-01

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/arctic-passion - 2025-10-01

On Wednesday 31 October 16.00-18.00 in room R240, Gamla kirurgen 2nd floor, Sandgatan a panel on Hindu nationalism will address the particular narratives and discourses of populist politics in India in the light of neoliberal politics and globalization. The speakers will focus on how rightwing populist narratives of nativism, religion, tradition, and gender have affected and influenced discriminat

https://www.sasnet.lu.se/article/panel-hindu-nationalism - 2025-10-01

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-fight-against-spruce-bark-beetles - 2025-10-01

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-aggressive-hiv-strain-leads-faster-aids-development - 2025-10-01

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-row-hat-trick-brain-electrodes - 2025-10-01

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-stars-form-smallest-galaxies - 2025-10-01

Congratulations to Charlotte Ling who, together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish kroner by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The funding will support clinical research in precision medicine, focusing on epigenetic analysis of blood samples from 13,000 individuals. Charlotte Ling, a professor in diabetes research with a particular focus on epigeneti

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-major-grant-clinical-diabetes-research - 2025-10-01

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/review-type-2-diabetes-and-obesity-what-do-we-really-know - 2025-10-01

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/obesity-reprogrammes-muscle-stem-cells - 2025-10-01

Åsa Burman is a former doctoral student at LU who has developed a method for efficiency and stress management. In January she held a workshop for doctoral students and has also written a book entitled "Finish on time - the Doctoral Student Handbook". Here are her best tips. Work in unitsDivide your day into units and A and B tasks. You should dedicate four 45-minute sessions to undisturbed work on

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/five-important-tips-way-thesis - 2025-10-01

The transition of the salary and human resources administration to the National Government Service Centre (SSC) is not painless. After just over four months, uncertainty still prevails among administrative staff and managers about processing cases through Primula. “We are happy to come and help people out where there is a need”, says human resources director Ann Silbersky Isaksson. She sees the tr

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hr-director-promises-help-tricky-salary-payments-0 - 2025-10-01

The presence of the glorious tulips, which have captivated so many of the visitors to the garden and spread to the Instagram accounts of the residents of Lund, is in no way guaranteed. Neither are the coming summer flowers currently being planted in the flower beds, which last year were left bare and brown. “We depend on grants”, says the garden director Bente Eriksen. “However, this year we recei

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/botanical-garden-temporarily-flourishing - 2025-10-01

The University will hold its first Future Week in October. It is to become an annual event in which researchers from the entire University will offer the general public lectures, panel discussions and debates intended to stimulate reflection about major future issues. The theme for this year’s week is adaptations – what do we have to do? What do we want to do? And what would we like to avoid? Hist

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/future-starts-october-0 - 2025-10-01