Mattias Magnusson (Photo: Kennet Ruona) New research aims to identify and characterise resistant lung cancer stem cells, and develop a model to customise drugs that can eradicate all cancer cells of an individual patient. This is the goal of researcher Mattias Magnusson, who received SEK 6 million from the Sjöberg Foundation to conduct this research project. Every year, close to 4 000 people in Sw

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/towards-personalised-treatment-lung-cancer - 2025-08-23

New approach to resistant bacteria. “The aim is for this patented protein to be usable as an anti-bacterial treatment, when ordinary antibiotics don’t work”, says David Ermert, one of the researchers behind the study. As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/specially-designed-protein-fights-several-species-bacteria - 2025-08-23

Mulatu Biru Shargie The social stigma surrounding HIV is still strong in many parts of the world. Children living with HIV in Ethiopia are at high risk of receiving inadequate treatment – or no treatment at all – on account of deeply rooted prejudice. The most considerable risk can be found among very small children, who do not receive proper treatment right away. Ethiopia is one of the 35 countri

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/social-stigma-obstacle-successful-treatment-children-hiv-ethiopia - 2025-08-23

Waders. Photo: Magnus Hellström The flight speed of birds is more complex than research has previously managed to show. In a new study from Lund University in Sweden, researchers have found that birds use multiple – each one simple yet effective - methods to control their speed in the air and compensate for tailwind, headwind and sidewind. Last year, biologists Anders Hedenström and Susanne Åkesso

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flight-speed-birds-more-complex-previously-thought - 2025-08-23

Johannes Rousk, Johan Östling and Hanna Isaksson Photo: Markus Marcetic © The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The impact of soil microbes on carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere; the transformation of knowledge as it moves between different contexts; zooming in on the Achilles’ tendon to a cellular and molecular level to discover how weight should b

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-new-wallenberg-academy-fellows-lund-university - 2025-08-23

The Swedish-Egyptian archaeological mission at Gebel el Silsila, Egypt, led by Dr. Maria Nilsson from Lund University and John Ward, has discovered four intact child burials at the site. The findings could provide important clues into family life at the ancient quarry. The burials further support the theory that there was a permanent community at the site, as opposed to a temporary workforce. The

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-intact-child-burials-found-gebel-el-silsila-egypt - 2025-08-23

Photo: Kennet Ruona An astrophysicist who has developed new knowledge about cardiac function, a cardiovascular expert who stimulated research in general medicine, an internationally leading researcher in autoimmune diseases, and a neuroscientist who is deeply engaged in society: these are the new honorary doctors at the Faculty of Medicine, who will be formally recognised in Lund Cathedral on 25 m

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-faculty-medicine-2018 - 2025-08-23

When the oxygen content of bottom water gets low, eventually only bacteria are able to survive on the seabed. Here is the so-called dead layer, which consists of white sulfur bacteria (Peter Bondo Christensen). In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean without oxygen has gone up more than four-fold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have incr

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/oxygen-worlds-oceans-declining-scientists-reveal-dangers-and-solutions - 2025-08-23

Jorge Ruas (Photo: Ulf Sirborn, KI) Our muscles enable us to breathe, move and run. Exercise improves our health and can even prevent many diseases. “I think that the importance of muscle in our overall physiology has been underestimated”, says Jorge Ruas, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and recipient of the Leif C Groop award for outstanding diabetes research. According to t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/leif-c-groop-award-outstanding-diabetes-research-jorge-ruas-karolinska-institutet - 2025-08-23

Among the gene-modified plant types approved in the EU’s risk assessment, but nonetheless not allowed to be cultivated, are several types of maize (the maize in the photo is not a GM crop). Photo: David Stephansson. Even though the EU’s food safety authority, EFSA, has classified genetically modified (GM) crops as safe, several member states always vote against authorisation, which poses an obstac

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/should-gm-crops-be-grown-eu-let-countries-decide-themselves-propose-group-experts - 2025-08-23

Image: Talía Velasco-Hernández; graphical editing: Marco La Rosa, Daniel Tornero and Karolina Komorowska. The HLF gene is necessary for maintaining our blood stem cells in a resting state, which is crucial for ensuring normal blood production. This has been shown by a new research study from Lund University in Sweden published in Cell Reports. “The study confirms several previous studies that show

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hlf-gene-protects-blood-stem-cells-maintaining-them-resting-state - 2025-08-23

Photo: Julia M I Barth Researchers have for the first time determined that hybridization between two bird species can give rise to several novel and fully functional hybrid genomic combinations. This could potentially be because hybrid species emerged through independent hybridisation events between the same parent species on different islands. Swedish and Norwegian researchers have studied island

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hybridization-can-give-rise-different-genome-combinations - 2025-08-23

Photo:Emma Hammarlund and Sofie Mohlin Can tumors teach us about animal evolution on Earth? Researchers believe so and now present a novel hypothesis of why animal diversity increased dramatically on Earth about half a billion years ago. A biological innovation may have been key. A transdisciplinary and international team, from Lund University in Sweden and University of Southern Denmark presents

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/novel-hypothesis-why-animals-diversified-earth - 2025-08-23

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https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/problems-sending-emails-lu-email-accounts-microsoft-email-services - 2025-08-23

Researchers have long wondered how our cells navigate inside the body. Two new studies, in which Lund University researcher Pontus Nordenfelt has participated, have now demonstrated that the cells use molecular force from within to steer themselves in a certain direction. This knowledge may be of great significance in the development of new drugs. Pontus Nordenfelt, researcher in infection medicin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-cells-are-able-turn - 2025-08-23

Photo: Nicholas Loubere Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a whole and for the Chinese p

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/assessing-40-years-reform-and-opening-china-conference - 2025-08-23

Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg Last autumn, the unique Ravensbrück Archive was opened to the general public as well as to researchers. Now requests are flooding in from all over the world to the archive in Lund, Sweden. “We are touched by the response”, says Håkan Håkansson at the University Library. Saturday 27 January is international Holocaust Remembrance Day. Just over three months have passed

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/thousands-visitors-search-ravensbruck-archive-information - 2025-08-23

Certain microorganisms are used to stimulate cultivated plants’ growth and disease resistance. Sometimes such bio-fertilisers works well, sometimes not. Now, researchers at Lund University, Sweden, are to study the exact requirements for improving the growth of sugar beet. If they succeed, biological fertilisers of crops will provide more benefits and bigger harvests. In a newly completed study, t

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-optimise-sugar-beet-bio-fertilisers - 2025-08-23

This nanowire is three micrometres long and connected to two rectangular metal contacts. Image: Lert Chayanun. Researcher Jesper Wallentin at the Department of Physics at Lund University in Sweden has received a grant of approximately SEK 15 million for a research project on the ability of nanowires to act as detectors for X-ray radiation. If successfully developed, this technology could enable X-

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/physicist-awarded-millions-research-x-rays-using-nanowires - 2025-08-23

Colourful clutter of both distant galaxies and foregrounded stars in our own galaxy. Stephan’s Quintet can be seen in the right-hand corner. Photo: CFHT, Pierre-Alain Duc (Obs. De Strasbourg) & Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CEA Saclay/Obs. De Paris). Astronomers have managed to take unusually colourful images of a group of galaxies using a telescope in Hawaii. The photos reveal new facts about this spe

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/colourful-photo-reveals-cannibalism-galaxy-cluster - 2025-08-23