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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 perfor

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lack-surgeons-threat-global-health - 2026-07-11

Understanding that others hold different viewpoints from your own is essential for human sociality. Adopting another person’s visual perspective is a complex skill that emerges around the age of two. A new study from Lund University in Sweden, published in Science Advances, suggests that this ability first arose in dinosaurs, at least 60 million years before it appeared in mammals. These findings

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/dinosaurs-were-first-take-perspectives-others - 2026-07-11

Lund University School of Economics and Management has claimed first place at the John Molson MBA International Case Competition in Montréal — one of the world’s most prestigious international case competitions. The winning team – Hanna Simona Allas, Lina Meyer, Karl Enocson and James Raymond-Paul – together with their case coach Mats Urde, delivered an outstanding performance in a highly competit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-wins-john-molson-mba-international-case-competition - 2026-07-11

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed one of the world’s most advanced test environments for the wireless communications of the future. Using the new test system, researchers have demonstrated for the first time that a distributed wireless network with 256 digitally beamformed antennas can operate in real time. This breakthrough opens up new opportunities to develop the technolog

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-first-world-develop-256-antenna-system-future-6g-communication - 2026-07-11

Seeing a lot of talk about the importance of gut health? These are the latest findings, including those on food and supplements Weighing in at nearly two kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria can influence our mood and act as a communication centre. Gut microbiota researchers Åsa Håkansson and Frida Fåk Hållenius at Lund University in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/key-takeaways-latest-research-gut-bacteria - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Every year, traffic accidents account for more than 1.3 million deaths worldwide. In an effort to reduce this figure, Lund University offers international courses in road safety management for professionals. In August this year, Lund University was privileged to welcome participants from Botswana, Uganda, Zambia, Mala

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/commissioned-education-lund-university-contributes-reduction-traffic-fatalities - 2026-07-11

A mapping conducted at Lund University shows that 40 per cent of all adults that has the disease got it at an average age of 67. Bo Hansson received his diagnosis the year before he retired during a routine visit to the Occupational Health Service. “The doctor said, ‘You have diabetes, I will prescribe you some pills.’” Today, thirteen years later, Bo and his wife Gerty receive us at their home in

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/risk-type-2-diabetes-increases-age - 2026-07-11

Does green growth exist? Can we achieve a sustainable society with a GDP that grows year after year? Not if you ask Timothée Parrique. He is the economist who defied all the good advice and chose to research degrowth. Now his thesis has been downloaded 27,000 times, and he is a sought-after lecturer worldwide. At the end of February this year, renowned economist Paul Krugman wrote a column in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-sustainability-award-agenda-2030-goes-degrowth-economist - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Knowledge that the gastrointestinal flora affects both healthy physiological processes and various disease mechanisms has increased in recent years. A study conducted at Lund University in Sweden is now published in one of the leading haematology journals, Blood Advances, and reveals a previously unknown link between

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gastrointestinal-flora-culprit-severe-lung-damage-after-blood-transfusion - 2026-07-11

Presently many of Sweden’s 20,000 Parkinson’s patients are not receiving the treatment they need, and many of the most seriously ill receive incorrect or inappropriate therapy. With the new Manage PD tool and the PD Pal study, Per Odin, professor at Lund University and senior attending physician at Skåne University Hospital in Lund, hopes to be able to improve the care of Parkinson’s patients. Eve

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/faster-and-better-treatment-parkinsons-disease-manage-pd-tool - 2026-07-11

Lund University, Linköping University and Örebro University will together work on developing the next generation of autonomous drone swarms. The initiative has received SEK 60 million in funding from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) over six years and will be coordinated through the newly established Center for Heterogeneous Adaptive Swarm Systems (CHASS). The aim is to develop

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-university-joins-major-initiative-autonomous-drone-swarms - 2026-07-11

Martin L. Olsson has received the International Society for Blood Transfusion (ISBT) Presidential Award, the highest international honour in transfusion medicine. The award is presented every two years to a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to transfusion medicine. Martin L. Olsson is recognised for translational research on red blood cells, following 35 years of work mapping the g

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-international-award-martin-l-olsson - 2026-07-11

A new interactive guide identifies the most effective actions you can take for the climate. The interest has been so great that the server hosting the guide crashed temporarily. In 2017, Kimberly Nicholas, professor of sustainability studies at Lund University, attracted considerable international attention with a research study that listed the four lifestyle choices that most effectively reduce a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-guide-making-biggest-climate-difference - 2026-07-11

An increasing number of people want to help bees and other pollinators by growing flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar. But which flowers are the most beneficial? If the point is to aid threatened bee species and biodiversity, then a variety of native plants is the way to go. If you are a farmer, with large areas of insect-pollinated crops, it might be easiest to aim for a few species of flo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flowers-benefit-both-bees-and-biodiversity - 2026-07-11

An observational study from Lund University in Sweden examining sugar consumption has attracted considerable international attention. The study shows that sweetened beverages have a greater negative impact on health than other sources of sugar. They significantly increased the risk of ischaemic stroke, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and abdominal aortic aneurysm. Of the 70,000 Swedes who took

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/questions-and-answers-lund-university-sugar-study - 2026-07-11

It is not easy to be an urban planner. Cities must be built more densely because surrounding agricultural land and nature must be protected – while at the same time health requirements are high. Over a period of five years researchers at Lund University in Sweden, have closely studied densification plans in three cities and found keys to solving this difficult equation. In short, the solution is t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/health-benefits-if-cities-are-densified-right-way - 2026-07-11

Researchers at Lund University available for comment on the latest developments in artificial intelligence – from disinformation and election interference to robotic surgery, the future of work, and how AI is shaping laws, policies and society. AI, democracy, disinformation and societal impact Mikael Sundström, a political scientist, can comment on the intersection between IT in the broadest sense

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/ai-experts-lund-university - 2026-07-11

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IT IS HIGH TIME that we start thinking about how we define life, according to a group of Lund University researchers. An army of intelligent robots is growing in front of us, but also opportunities to alter people’s DNA, create super babies and, perhaps, to encounter life in space.“Human beings have always dreamed of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/designer-babies-and-intelligent-robots-how-new-life-challenging-humankind - 2026-07-11

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https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/c-michael-hall-receives-honorary-doctorate - 2026-07-11