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Våra dendritiska celler (DC) är immunsystemets vaktposter och de patrullerar våra kroppar efter bakterier, virus eller cancerceller. När DC hittar en främmande partikel bryter de ner den i mindre bitar – antigen - och presenterar bitarna på cellytan för immunförsvarets mördarceller. På så vis lär sig mördarcellerna vilka smittoämnen och cancerceller som de ska söka upp och döda. I flera studier ha

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/okad-effektivitet-i-omprogrammerade-immunceller - 2026-10-09

Med inspiration från den enorma kraftsamling som placerade Neil Armstrong på månen 1969, lanserade Joe Biden 2016 – då vicepresident och nu president i USA – forskningsprogrammet Cancer Moonshot. En grupp forskare vid Lunds universitet är del av satsningen och publicerade förra året två vetenskapliga artiklar om en atlas över proteiner som uttrycks i melanomtumörer. Flera lärosäten och sjukhus run

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/proteinatlas-over-malignt-melanom-framtagen - 2026-10-09

På bara en dryg vecka har en ny studie om hur Pfizer BioNTechs covid-19-vaccin (BNT162b2) påverkar humana leverceller i odlingsskål väckt stort intresse. Studien har hittills fått nästan 800 000 läsningar och resultaten sprids i sociala medier, där den i flera fall även misstolkas. Men vilka resultat handlar det om, och hur ska de förstås? Två av forskarna bakom studien, professorerna Yang de Mari

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/studie-om-covid-19-vaccin-vacker-uppmarksamhet - 2026-10-09

Anna Fossum, projektledare på forskningsinfrastrukturen StemTherapy FACS Core Facility, har sorterat celler med olika typer av FACS-maskiner i 23 år. Men tröttnat på jobbet har hon inte gjort - tvärtom. Nu har hon fått en ny och mer kraftfull medlem i FACS-familjen att sköta om. – Jag älskar mitt jobb! Det är stimulerande att träffa så många människor och höra om deras olika forskningsprojekt. Man

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/nytt-tillskott-i-facs-familjen - 2026-10-09

Det är tisdag eftermiddag på patologen i Lund och cancerforskare David Gisselsson Nord sitter framför sin dator och studerar ett detaljerat foto av en njure. Njuren kommer från en sexårig pojke och har opererats bort efter det att han diagnostiserats med Wilms tumör - en cancerform som nästan uteslutande drabbar barn under sex år. – Men man kan leva med endast en, eller delar av en njure utan att

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/jag-vill-radda-fler-barn - 2026-10-09

New biomarkers are making it easier to detect Alzheimer’s disease and improve diagnosis, which is increasingly important as new treatments become available. MultiPark researchers are also developing an AI model that could detect several dementia-related conditions from a single blood test. At the same time, MultiPark researchers are exploring how dementia might be prevented, including why brain in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/world-alzheimers-month-how-multipark-research-contributes-understanding-diagnosing-and-treating - 2026-10-09

Four years after body-checking was introduced, have injury rates in Swedish women’s ice hockey changed? Yes, markedly. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now been able to show that, in the short term, the number of insurance claims almost doubled. In 2022, body-checking became permissible in the SDHL, the top-flight Swedish women’s ice hockey league. Sweden was thus the first country in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/more-injuries-following-policy-change-body-checking-womens-ice-hockey-players-are-positive-about - 2026-10-09

Recently published findings from Lund University in Sweden challenge a common assumption about the causes of fatigue in teenage girls. The researchers found no link between iron deficiency and fatigue, even though iron deficiency was very common in the group. By contrast, heavy periods, skipping meals and daily nicotine use were linked to higher levels of self-reported tiredness in the group. We h

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/unexpected-findings-fatigue-teenage-girls - 2026-10-09

Alzheimer’s researcher Sebastian Palmqvist has been awarded USD 19.4 million (SEK 190 million) from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its National Institute on Aging (NIA). The funds are to be used to develop a clinical test based on the biomarker MTBR-tau243. The goal is to develop an FDA-approved blood test within five years that will benefit patients. “It’s a great pleasure to

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/sek-190-million-research-and-development-new-diagnostic-test-alzheimers-disease - 2026-10-09

A new study by researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that 85 percent of patients with aura-dominant migraine experienced a reduction in monthly aura days by at least half following treatment with the anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine. The findings need to be confirmed in a controlled study, but could eventually be significant for a patient group that currently lacks a specific treatment for

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/anti-epileptic-drug-may-reduce-migraine-aura - 2026-10-09

For most of his career as a researcher, Lars Björck has sought to understand how bacteria manage to evade the human immune system. One of his discoveries is now saving the lives of patients with kidney disease who previously found it very difficult to receive a kidney transplant. He describes research as a combination of perseverance and imagination – and a fair few failures. Meet the winner of th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/turning-bacterias-weapons-medical-tools - 2026-10-09

Professor Lars Björck, of Lund University, has been awarded the 2026 Nordic Fernström Prize. He receives the prize for his pioneering research into how disease-causing bacteria interact with and evade the human immune system. His research has provided fundamental insights into microbial pathogenesis and paved the way for significant biotechnological tools and new therapeutic possibilities. Through

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/fernstrom-nordic-prize-goes-research-has-turned-bacterias-weapons-medical-tools - 2026-10-09

Daniel Lindqvist, associate professor at Lund University and Senior Consultant in Psychiatry at Region Skåne, has been awarded the Eric K. Fernström Prize for young, particularly promising and successful researchers. His research focuses on biological markers and precision psychiatry. Prize citation: “For outstanding research that has contributed to a greater understanding of the biological mechan

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/eric-k-fernstroms-prize-young-researchers-goes-daniel-lindqvist - 2026-10-09

Both normal aging and Alzheimer’s change how different brain regions communicate with each other. But a new study from Lund University reveals that these alterations follow distinct patterns where shifts linked to disease are distinguishable from normal aging. And the alterations seen in Alzheimer’s patients appear early, even before cognitive symptoms emerge. The discoveries are published in Natu

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-and-aging-reshape-brain-communication-different-ways - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activit

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2026-10-09

We congratulate this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine – Peter Hegemann, Georg Nagel and Karl Deisseroth – on their groundbreaking discoveries that laid the foundations for optogenetics. Here at Lund University’s Faculty of Medicine, we are particularly delighted: Karl Deisseroth holds an honorary doctorate from our Faculty of Medicine and has long-standing research collaborations w

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-doctor-awarded-nobel-prize-physiology-or-medicine - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to i

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. First published: 2019-05-03Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protecti

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons proce

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2026-10-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published:

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2026-10-09