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That eating plenty of vegetables, wholegrains and legumes is beneficial for health is well known. More surprising, however, is that people who eat in a environmentally-friendly way also display nutritional values that are better than researchers had expected. This is shown in a new study by Anna Stubbendorff at the Agenda 2030 Graduate School. The EAT–Lancet diet is a global dietary guideline deve
Lund University is returning to Almedalen with a broad programme to strengthen the public discussion about higher education and research. Since the university's first participation in 2009, the commitment has grown, and this year around 50 employees are participating. The programme offers discussions on everything from preparedness and AI to the future of food. As in previous years, LTH has a well
https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/ai-crisis-and-quantum-almedalen - 2026-07-19
The brain's big-eating immune cells can slow down the progression of Alzheimer's disease. This is shown by a study that is now published in Nature Aging. The brain's own immune cells are called microglia and are found in the central nervous system. They are big eaters that kill viruses, damaged cells and infectious agents they come across. It has long been known that microglial cells can be activa
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/brains-immune-cells-can-be-triggered-slow-down-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-19
From the Vice-Chancellor’s blog: For several years, Lund University and many other stakeholders within the sector and beyond have been calling on the Government to alter and simplify immigration legislation and its regulations for researchers and doctoral students. Sweden and its universities are competing in a highly competitive international study and labour market, and there have been far too m
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-immigration-rules-researchers-and-doctoral-students-welcomed - 2026-07-20
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Har vi en finanskris? Nej, säger nationalekonomen Fredrik N G Andersson. Detta eftersom att banksektorn i dagsläget inte är hotad. Däremot har Sverige för närvarande en finanskrispolitik, just för att undvika att hamna i en kris. – Jag och mina kollegor har under många års tid argumenterat för att vi behöver en bere
https://www.lu.se/artikel/har-coronakrisen-lett-till-en-finanskris - 2026-07-20
The strange space object ‘Oumuamua took the scientific community by storm nine years ago. In the wake of its passage close to our planet, many questions have been raised. Recently, an international initiative was launched to search for more visitors from other solar systems. One night in October 2017, a telescope in Hawaii is carrying out its routine task of scanning the night sky. The following d
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/hunt-visitors-other-solar-systems - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the time of the atmospheric nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and 1960s, the level of carbon-14 in the atmosphere increased dramatically. Now researchers from Lund University have developed a method for measuring the carbon-14 content in atherosclerotic plaques in patients. The measurements reveal how old and da
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nuclear-weapons-tests-provide-information-dangerous-atherosclerosis-plaque - 2026-07-19
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In type 2 diabetes, the body’s cells are unable to assimilate the essential hormone insulin which is produced in the beta cells of the pancreas. Exactly what is wrong with the beta cells in type 2 diabetes is the question to which Professor Erik Renström at Lund University Diabetes Centre is searching for an answer. A
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-award-research-what-wrong-beta-cells-type-2-diabetes - 2026-07-19
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Det började med ett ”psykbryt” över en tjänstledighet som skulle skrivas in i Primula och slutade med en av nättidningen Curies mest lästa krönikor under 2020. Organisationsforskaren Anna Jonsson efterlyser en upprensning i våra datasystem – men också reflektion: gör rätt personer rätt saker? Anna Jonsson är univers
https://www.lu.se/artikel/tjanstefel-att-inte-reagera-pa-floran-av-datasystem - 2026-07-20
Jakten på att kunna kontrollera kvantfysikens märkvärdiga fenomen pågår världen över. Årets Nobelpris i fysik bidrar till att göra ämnet ännu hetare. Även vid Lunds universitet deltar man i att utforska kvanttillståndens okända och ibland hjärnskrynklande perspektiv. Fysikdocent Mathieu Gisselbrecht visar vägen ner i Laserlabbets källarkorridor på Fysicum. I ett par olika rum breder avancerad utru
https://www.lu.se/artikel/pa-upptacktsfard-i-en-annan-verklighet - 2026-07-20
Emma Kritzberg tog tåget till ett möte på Mallorca. En resa som varade i 54 timmar och kostade mer än dubbelt så mycket som om hon valt att flyga till Medelhavsön på några timmar. Ändå var flyget aldrig ett alternativ. De senaste sex åren har hon varken flugit i tjänsten eller privat, ett medvetet beslut för att minimera klimatpåverkande utsläpp. Emma Kritzberg, professor vid Biologiska instituti
https://www.lu.se/artikel/tog-taget-till-motet-pa-mallorca - 2026-07-20
Researchers at Lund University’s Lund Stem Cell Center have made new strides in understanding why some patients with chronic myeloid leukemia respond better to treatment than others. Their study, recently published in eLife, suggests that the amount of healthy blood stem cells at diagnosis could be a key factor in predicting how well patients will respond to standard therapies. Chronic myeloid leu
The heads of the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC), the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science (INES), and the Department of Geology have agreed on a proposed name for a joint department, contingent upon a co-organisation decision in September. Below is a background on how the departmental representatives, tasked with developing name proposals, have crafted the pre
https://www.science.lu.se/internal/article/name-suggestions-potential-joint-department - 2026-07-19
Early diagnosis is key to receiving proper care and advancing research on future therapies for neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and dementia with Lewy bodies. New research from Skåne University Hospital and Lund University shows that combining a simple smell test with advanced spinal fluid analysis can predict these diseases with high accuracy, while sparing nearly half of patients f
https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/smell-test-cuts-need-invasive-parkinsons-screening - 2026-07-19
On the second day of COP26, more than 100 global leaders, representing 85% of the world's forests, pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade. The Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forest and Land Use will cover forests totaling more than 13 million square miles. Sustainability researcher and deforestation expert, Torsten Krause, at Lund University for Su
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/researcher-torsten-krause-comments-world-leaders-pledge-end-deforestation-2030 - 2026-07-19
Two therapy dogs instead of one. There was a big turnout on May 5 when the pop-up event "Mental Health on Campus" was held in the Forum Medicum entrance. The goal was to give students a chance to share their thoughts on mental health. Either on a digital bulletin board or post-it notes on-site. Two therapy dog teams visited the event. Carina Tjörnstrand, PhD in Occupational Therapy, came with the
https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/therapy-dogs-attracted-students-exchange-ideas-mental-health - 2026-07-19
Kimberly Nicholas, Professor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and member of BECC, just launched a new science-based tool that helps individuals identify their most powerful climate actions, whilst bridging the gap between individual choices and systemic change. We had a talk with her to learn more about the guide. Observera: En svensk översättning finns längre ned på s
https://www.becc.lu.se/article/kimberly-nicholas-super-high-impact-initiative-fixing-tomorrow - 2026-07-19
Kajsa Brolin forskar om hur våra gener och vår miljö påverkar risken att utveckla Parkinsons sjukdom. Den 27 mars lägger hon fram sin avhandling som till stor del baseras på MultiParks egen biobank som innehåller prover från över 1000 skånska parkinsonpatienter. Här berättar hon om en nyligen upptäckt genetisk riskfaktor som verkar finnas specifikt i Skåne. Och skyddar verkligen kaffe mot Parkinso
https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/gener-och-miljo-vid-parkinsons-svar-fran-multiparks-biobank - 2026-07-19
Idag lider cirka 20 000 svenskar av Parkinsons sjukdom men ännu finns bara symptomlindrande behandlingar. Genom en ny biobank får forskarna tillgång till 1 000 parkinsonpatienters genetiska profiler tillsammans med utförlig information om deras livsstil och sjukdomshistoria. – Jag är övertygad om att många forskare kommer att använda biobanken de närmsta åren, vilket kan leda till utvecklingen av
https://www.multipark.lu.se/sv/artikel/ny-biobank-ger-insikter-om-parkinsons-sjukdom - 2026-07-19
Laura Elo vid Åbo universitet tilldelas Leif C. Groop-priset för framstående diabetesforskning. Matematikern från Finland har utvecklat metoder som har ökat förståelsen för hur typ 1-diabetes utvecklas på molekylär nivå. Hon hoppas att forskningen kan bidra till att förebygga och fördröja sjukdomsförloppet vid typ 1-diabetes och förbättra behandlingen av sjukdomen. Prismotivering”Laura Elo vid Åbo
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/laura-elo-far-leif-c-groop-priset-framstaende-forskning-om-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-07-19
