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Diabetes is currently treated using incretin hormones to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and other medical issues that the illness can trigger. Now researchers from Lund University in Sweden have noted new links between these hormones and arteriosclerosis, and believe their discovery could be significant for treatment of diabetes in the future. The study is published in Diabetes Care. Wh

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/incretin-hormone-levels-linked-arteriosclerosis - 2025-11-23

The machines have started rolling in at Norunda and are cutting down trees, one by one. Norunda is Sweden’s oldest measuring station for greenhouse gases and it is unique. Following several decades of being surrounded by a hundred-year-old forest, it will instead be surrounded by a clear-cut. - We expect a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, says professor Natascha Kljun at CEC. The

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/clear-cut-forest-provides-essential-information-climate-research - 2025-11-23

A new technology that makes hydrogen from forestry and agricultural residues that are currently burnt is being developed at Lund University. The plan is to efficiently produce a green gas that society needs - while cutting carbon emissions. The researchers' European consortium has received SEK 37 million from the EU Innovation Fund to realise the technology. Renewable hydrogen is no longer conside

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/hydrogen-carbon-dioxide-and-plant-residues - 2025-11-23

Bladder cancer is as common as malignant melanoma. However, in the past three decades, the death rate has remained high and the treatment has been the same since the 1970s. Yet only a very small part of research funding goes to bladder cancer. Through a unique collaboration, researchers now want to transfer new research about the disease to clinical practice. However, first they have to find a way

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/forgotten-cancer - 2025-11-24

For the first time, the University has investigated the collective climate footprint of the entire organisation. Emissions of greenhouse gases fell sharply during the pandemic, almost exclusively due to the suspension of travel. However, there is still a long way to go to meet the emission targets for 2023 in the sustainability plan. The recent report shows that, in 2018, the University emitted a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/goods-and-equipment-affect-environment-most - 2025-11-24

Back then, the red brick buildings rose like a lonely wall against the open fields of eastern Lund. Now, the buildings are a hub in the middle of the knowledge highway that links the centre of the city with the research facilities on the outskirts of Brunnshög. We are talking, of course, about the buildings on the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) campus. Architect Klas Anshelm’s red brick buildings ha

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/almost-time-move-newly-renovated-m-building - 2025-11-24

The Islamic presence in Europe is becoming normalised. But integration also leads to increased conflict, according to Oliver Scharbrodt, Lund University’s new professor of Islamic Studies. Oliver Scharbrodt came to the University last spring after taking up Sweden’s only professorship in Islamic Studies. “I was attracted by the fact that Lund is one of Europe’s classic top universities and that th

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/integration-can-lead-conflict - 2025-11-24

Global e-waste levels continue to rise, posing serious challenges to human health and the environment. Observed annually on January 24, Circular Electronics Day raises awareness about this escalating crisis and promotes sustainable practices such as more sustainable production, extending product lifespans, repairing, buying second-hand, and recycling responsibly. This initiative empowers both cons

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/five-ways-join-movement-circular-electronics-day-sparks-action-more-sustainable-tech-future - 2025-11-24

Investigating air pollution is not for researchers afraid of heights. One of the fearless is Erik Ahlberg, a combustion physicist at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH). His working days are often spent far above ground – currently on the roof of Malmö Town Hall, where the instruments that capture air particles are located. There are many stairs in the town hall. The last staircase to the top of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/research-high-altitude-when-air-under-scrutiny - 2025-11-24

A new three-year term of office has begun for the University’s eight deans. Five are new in the role, while three have been around for some time. LUM has put a few questions to each of them. Annika Olsson, Faculty of Engineering (LTH), second term of office What’s the first thing you will be working on as dean? “Since I’m starting my second term as dean, LTH will continue with what we started duri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-term-deans - 2025-11-24

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 - 2025-11-23

Ph.D. student Laura Andreoli spent several years digging into the neural pathways involved in involuntary movements in Parkinson’s disease. On the 14th of December, she defends her thesis. And she is eager to share her findings and thoughts about her time in the Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology Lab headed by MultiPark’s coordinator Angela Cenci Nilsson. Tell us about your research! Most patients suff

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-laura-andreoli - 2025-11-23

Lisa graduated from the Master's programme in Environmental Management and Policy this summer. Now she's a PhD student at the IIIEE, doing research on circular business model innovation and its implementation in the Swedish manufacturing industry. Hej Lisa! Tell us something about yourself and what you’re working with! I graduated from the EMP programme this summer. Originally I’m from Germany and

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-our-new-phd-student-lisa-heldt - 2025-11-23

Mycket talar för att mindre kött på tallriken är bra för klimatet. Men vad ska vi äta istället? Livsmedelsforskaren Karolina Östbring listar vilka grödor det snackas om på konferenser, i akademin och industrin och som vi förväntas odla mer av i Sverige. Men allra först bör vi halvera vårt intag av samtliga proteiner, anser hon. Jämfört med många andra länder äts det lite bönor, linser och ärtor i

https://www.lu.se/artikel/basta-grodorna-att-klara-proteinskiftet - 2025-11-24

Skogen står i fokus för en intensiv debatt för tillfället. Det handlar, grovt förenklat, om vilka klimatnyttor skogen kan ge, antingen genom att stå kvar och binda kol, eller genom att användas som ersättning för fossila bränslen och fossilintensiva material. I en ny kunskapsgenomgång från Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC) vid Lunds universitet går Markku Rummukainen, professor i klimat

https://www.lu.se/artikel/skogens-klimatnyttor-en-balansakt-i-prioritering - 2025-11-24

Perhaps not, argues Yulia Vakulenko. At least not when it comes to the delivery service needs and preferences of rural versus urban e-consumers in the age of consumer-centric supply chain management. The new age of consumer-centric supply chain management highlights the benefits of placing the consumer at the core of strategy development and operations design. Recent e-commerce shifts translate in

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/does-one-service-fit-all - 2025-11-23

At the graduation ceremony for all the master students at the Faculty of Social Science earlier in June, Stella Zimpfer received the Sparbankstiftelsen award for best master thesis in strategic communication, a thesis focusing on startup branding in the Öresund region. I asked Stella a few questions about her work. Stella is from Germany and has since before a bachelor’s degree in European Studies

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/stella-about-her-award-winning-master-thesis-i-hope-my-thesis-helps-get-startups-thinking-about - 2025-11-23

By analysing the growth rings from trees that are several thousand years old, preserved in peat bogs, geologist Johannes Edvardsson is creating a unique timeline of Sweden’s historical climate. The buried time capsules also hold clues that could help us to better understand how our forests will be affected by future climate change.  With a screaming noise, the sharp blade of the chainsaw cuts thro

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chainsaw-geologist-studies-historical-climate-change-growth-rings - 2025-11-23

Several NanoLund networks were chosen when the Swedish Research Council decided on the applications to be awarded network grants for planning future excellence clusters for groundbreaking technologies. The network grant call was the first step in a government initiative to invest in clusters of excellence for groundbreaking technologies. The total grant amount is 48 million SEK.“It has been incred

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/network-grant-planning-future-excellence-clusters-groundbreaking-technologies - 2025-11-23

A heated discussion under the hashtag Swedengate erupted on social media last spring. Swedes were accused of being strange as they did not invite their children’s friends to eat with them when the family was having dinner. The phenomenon was upsetting and ethnologist Håkan Jönsson was quickly inundated with questions. Are Swedes stingy? Swedengate came about when someone on the news and discussion

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedengate-disrespect-or-being-stingy - 2025-11-24