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What does the origin of life on Earth have to do with malignant tumour cells? In an unusual research project, a geochemist and a tumour biologist have joined forces to explain the emergence of animals in a new way, thereby questioning one of the cornerstones of evolution. Geochemist Emma Hammarlund is excited to see what kind of response she and Sven Påhlman will get based on their conclusions. We

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/odd-pair-solves-evolutionary-riddle - 2025-12-11

At this year’s Lund Spring Symposium, two veteran leaders of pharmaceutical research – Jan M. Lundberg and Mikael Dolsten – engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about scientific courage, setbacks, technological leaps, and hope for the future. The 2025 edition of the symposium, held in May, was filled with highlights. Among them was the thought-provoking exchange between Mikael Dolsten, former Ch

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/science-responsibility-and-resilience-conversation-future-medicines - 2025-12-11

Stephen Woroniecki blogs on the issues highlighted in Director Emily Boyd's article in NatureRecently our Director, Professor Emily Boyd, published an article in Nature, Climate Adaptation - Holistic Thinking Beyond Technology, exploring issues emerging in global attempts at climate change adaptation. A central theme of the article was how local implementation of adaptation relates to global actor

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/comment-issues-highlighted-director-emily-boyds-article-nature - 2025-12-11

It is well known that type 2 diabetes raises the risk of dementia. The reasons for this are less clear, but one explanation could be insulin resistance in the brain, according to Malin Wennström, a researcher at Lund University´s Molecular Memory Research Unit. She has received EUR 700,000 from the Swedish Research Council to investigate her theory."The goal is to find measureable biomarkers early

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-link-dementia-be-examined - 2025-12-11

Two researchers at the Department of Biology, Milda Pucetaite and Colin Olito, have been awarded starting grants from the European Research Council, ERC. The research projects aim to advance methods in microbiological ecology and map the development of sex chromosomes. Milda Pucetaite Researcher in microbiological ecology. Project: “Tracing single-cell scale chemical signaling between interacting

https://www.science.lu.se/article/two-biology-researchers-receive-generous-starting-grants-european-research-council - 2025-12-11

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-12-11

The biology researchers from Lund, Milda Pucetaite and Colin Olito, have been awarded starting grants from the European Research Council, ERC. The research projects aim to advance methods in microbiological ecology and map the development of sex chromosomes. Milda Pucetaite, researcher in microbiological ecology, on the project “Tracing single-cell scale chemical signaling between interacting soil

https://www.biology.lu.se/article/two-biology-researchers-receive-generous-starting-grants-european-research-council - 2025-12-11

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden studied self-grooming rats in order to better understand how the brain chooses what comes next in a sequence of actions. The study shows that when they switch from one action to the next in the grooming chain, the signalling in different parts of the brain changes. The results, published recently in Science Advances, increase understanding of which processe

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/self-grooming-rats-offered-clues-how-brain-chooses-behaviour - 2025-12-12

Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epilepsy that are being tested by a research group in Lund. To help them, the resear

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2025-12-11

What are your thoughts on death? How would you like to spend your last days? These kinds of existential questions are explored at so-called death cafés - gatherings that Jamie Woodworth began organising before she was 25, as a way of dealing with her anxiety about climate change. Now she has been awarded an honourable mention for her doctoral thesis on end-of-life care in the Swedish welfare state

https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/when-care-becomes-luxury-jamie-woodworth-end-life-care-swedish-welfare-state - 2025-12-11

Researchers at Lund University have discovered how a hidden piece of DNA, known as a transposable element, disrupts normal gene function in a disease called X-Linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism (XDP). Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, their findings uncover the epigenetic processes that lead to changes in gene expression linked to XDP, offering new insights into how this rare genetic

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/how-hidden-genetic-elements-trigger-rare-disorder - 2025-12-11

How regional, local and national governments decide to develop coastal regions affects 21st century flood exposure more than climate threats according to a new study, focusing on China. The research, which for the first time integrates projected land use change under different policies, sea-level rise, extreme events, and land subsidence, identifies that strategic coastal planning can have huge ef

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/coastal-development-planning-matters-more-21st-century-flood-risk-climate-change - 2025-12-11

Jamirah Nazziwa will defend her thesis: Dynamics of HIV-1 infection within and between hosts. Date: 2022-06-15 Time: 13:00 Place: Agardh lecture hall, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Malmö or you can join by Zoom, https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/5911574417 Opponent: Professor Fernando Gonzalez Candelas, University of Valencia, Spain  Dynamics of HIV-1 infection within and between hosts-Lund University. Pop

https://www.virology.lu.se/article/156-thesis-defense-jamirah-nazziwa - 2025-12-11

If you exhale on a clear day in the clean, cold air of the Arctic, you will not see your breath form the cloud we are used to seeing when the temperature drops. The reason for this is that the cloud cannot form without aerosol particles. Moa Sporre, researcher in nuclear physics at Lund University, focuses on how these particles affect cloud formation and how the clouds, in turn, affect the climat

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/particles-baffle-climate-researchers - 2025-12-11

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. What do you view as the next steps following what was concluded in the IPCC report? Kimberly: Something the report makes absolutely clear is that to stop warming, hum

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/what-comes-next-after-ipcc-climate-change-report - 2025-12-11

A lot of research on human behaviour is based entirely on words: researchers read, ask questions, send out questionnaires and write reports. But this means they miss a lot of elements concerning sound, sights and people’s interaction with their physical surroundings. Devrim Umut Aslan wants to study consumers’ attitudes to a shopping environment (Södergatan in Helsingborg) from a sociocultural per

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/consumers-attitudes-captured-film - 2025-12-11

Pathologists and coroners are now commonplace in crime novels and TV crime series and are often depicted as slightly odd people. Elisabet Englund has worked at the Division of Pathology in Lund for over 40 years. She has often been told that she is a little ‘too happy’ to be a pathologist. “Yes, there is a stereotype of people who work with dead people, which perhaps contributes to the mystificati

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/death-our-textbook-life - 2025-12-12

In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new successful immunotherapies to treat cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and antibody treatments are two types of targeted immunotherapies that have revolutionised areas of cancer care. However, there are still significant challenges in the identification of cancer cell surface proteins as targets for immunotherapies. A research group

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy - 2025-12-12

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new method to treat human herpes viruses. The new broad-spectrum method targets physical properties in the genome of the virus rather than viral proteins, which have previously been targeted. The treatment consists of new molecules that penetrate the protein shell of the virus and prevent genes from leaving the virus to infect the cell. It

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/antiviral-method-against-herpes-paves-way-combatting-incurable-viral-infections - 2025-12-12

In recent years, great advances have been made in the development of new successful immunotherapies to treat cancer. CAR T-cell therapy and antibody treatments are two types of targeted immunotherapies that have revolutionised areas of cancer care. However, there are still significant challenges in the identification of cancer cell surface proteins as targets for immunotherapies. A research group

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/new-precision-technology-immunotherapy - 2025-12-11