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Love poems, playing cards and secret notes. For half a millennium, people who have attended mass at Lund Cathedral have found ways to pass the time when the sermons felt too slow. In a few years, the Lund University Historical Museum will introduce a new cabinet of curiosities, containing notes and strange objects which have fallen down or been hidden between the choir stalls inside the Cathedral.

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/hidden-treasures-choir-stalls-made-exhibition - 2025-10-25

They govern everything we think and do, they give us the ability to feel pain and to secrete insulin: they are the ion channels that are present in every one of our cells and that control the electrical impulses in our nerve and muscle cells. “For me, they are the very spark of life”, says Dame Frances Ashcroft, professor at the University of Oxford, who is also now to be an honorary doctor at Lun

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/injections-pills-research-neonatal-diabetes - 2025-10-25

Nowadays, the ability to write computer code is almost as fundamental as writing and arithmetic. Björn Regnell is passionate about getting programming onto school timetables, preferably from the very start. Björn Regnell. Photo: Mats Nygren He works practically towards this goal with children at Vattenhallen and by trying to influence public opinion and lobbying the authorities. Björn Regnell is a

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/never-too-young-learn-programming - 2025-10-25

The results of an observational study from Lund University in Sweden are clear: up to the age of two, a more fibre-rich diet seems to reduce the risk of coeliac disease. A particularly clear link was seen when children had eaten fibre-rich foods before the age of one. “This is the first time the risk of coeliac disease has been studied based on fibre in children’s diets. But a clinical trial is al

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-research-track-higher-amounts-dietary-fibre-age-two-can-reduce-later-risk-coeliac-disease - 2025-10-25

What role does an inflammatory protein have in disease development? Which neuronal circuits cause different symptoms? How may diabetes affect Parkinson’s disease? Can motor signs be identifies early in individuals at risk for the disease? And how should patients in very advanced disease stages be treated to maintain their quality of life? These questions may soon have answers thanks to several ong

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/molecule-patient-six-promising-projects-advance-parkinsons-research - 2025-10-25

The results of an observational study from Lund University in Sweden are clear: up to the age of two, a more fibre-rich diet seems to reduce the risk of coeliac disease. A particularly clear link was seen when children had eaten fibre-rich foods before the age of one. “This is the first time the risk of coeliac disease has been studied based on fibre in children’s diets. But a clinical trial is al

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-research-track-higher-amounts-dietary-fibre-age-two-can-reduce-later-risk-coeliac-disease - 2025-10-25

Two innovation-driven research projects at Lund University have been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council, ERC. They relate to biomarkers for predicting who benefits from metformin in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and new technology to enable powerful and focused therapies for the treatment of solid tumours. Charlotte Ling has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Gr

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy - 2025-10-25

Johan Flygare, Coordinator of the Swedish National ATMP Research School talks about ATMP, about the school and explains why you should apply. Deadline: 15 February. –  ATMP is personally very important to me. Since I started as Deputy Coordinator of the Stem Cell Center, a specific task I have focused on is to make sure our research findings have the best possible chances to reach patients. A part

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/call-applications-swedish-national-atmp-research-school - 2025-10-25

Where, how often, and how much it is going to rain or snow in the future is difficult to predict. Anders Ahlström studies the importance of precipitation for ecosystems on Earth – and contributes with new knowledge in a complex and fraught area. Across the world, researchers are in agreement on future warming patterns. However, future precipitation is more difficult to predict, and climate models

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/importance-precipitation-ecosystems-earth - 2025-10-25

In November 2022, the EpiHealth Steering Group decided on four grants for postdoctoral positions over two years. Read about the Uppsala researchers who receive grants and what research they plan to conduct. Understanding cardiometabolic disease  One of the grants goes to Dr Shafqat Ahmad, Researcher at the Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medical Sciences. What is your research about? –

https://www.epihealth.lu.se/en/article/four-new-postdoctoral-positions-within-epihealths-uppsala-node - 2025-10-25

In recent decades, the climate in Sweden has become about two degrees warmer on average and this year we have seen an unprecedentedly mild winter and early spring. How is nature responding – animals, insects, plants – to an increasingly mild climate? Researchers in Lund can provide the answer. Among other things, a new study shows that greenery in Sweden begins to appear between one to two weeks e

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/unusually-early-spring-how-nature-sweden-responding-increasingly-warm-climate - 2025-10-25

Superconductors are a cornerstone of quantum computers and particle detectors, among other things. However, a common problem is that their efficiency is degraded by various interferences. Now, researchers have come one step closer to explaining what is happening through high-precision measurements. The results are now being published in Nature Physics. Superconductivity depends on the presence of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/moments-silence-point-way-towards-better-superconductors - 2025-10-25

Sustainability science is about making impact for societal transformations. Building transdisciplinary relationships for the co-creation of knowledge with organisations outside academia is crucial to enact change. New research from LUCSUS identifies key insights for how to create and maintain more successful collaborations. The work is based on five-years of working with the Swedish craft beer sec

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/how-build-transdisciplinary-and-trusting-relationships-societal-transformations - 2025-10-25

We are very happy to announce that Professor Anna Falk has joined Lund Stem Cell Center. Anna and her research team are focused on understanding the mechanisms that control human brain development and how defects in these may contribute to the development of brain disorders. The Falk group are also exploring the regenerative potential of induced pluripotent stem cell derived neural cells for their

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/professor-anna-falk-joins-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-10-25

What do muffins and space travel have in common? Answer: They affect our genes through altered DNA methylation patterns. Two researchers who studied this recently met at the public defence of a doctoral thesis at Lund University. Andrew Feinberg from Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, has often been called the "father of epigenetics”.  When the US Space Agency NASA de

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/big-data-muffins-and-space-travel - 2025-10-25

Is there any point in participating in a graduate school? After qualitative interviews with alumni from SWEAH, a scientific publication has now been published, which establishes that interdisciplinary graduate schools can play a crucial role in educating the next generation of researchers. A few questions to the article's first author Catharina Melander, senior lecturer at SWEAH's partner universi

https://sweah.lu.se/en/article/important-new-researchers-deal-uncertainty - 2025-10-25

By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the win in this year's Research Grand Prix. It is a competition in presentation technique for researchers, and it was held in front of an audience of almost 400 students at Helsingborg's Stadsteater on 1 October. His presentat

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/research-reprogramming-cancer-cells-won-presentation-competition-research-grand-prix - 2025-10-25

The results of the election in September may have an impact on academic freedom and the independence of universities from political power. The principle of keeping an arm's length between politics and higher education and research is increasingly being called into question. “I think we are currently in a situation in which the most important thing is not for universities to receive more money, but

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/academic-freedom-under-threat - 2025-10-26

Poverty reduction globally is one of the UN’s primary goals. But how can wealth and economic development be measured in a smart way? Artificial intelligence, AI, and satellite photos are able to give more effective and precise measurements, but will remote sensing technology ever be able to replace time-consuming interview surveys? In rich countries, GDP is the most common measure of a country’s w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-poverty-ai-and-satellite-photos - 2025-10-26

Sara Nolbrant, from the Developmental and Regenerative Neurobiology lab, will be defending her PhD thesis on Friday 31st of January. Researching in the group led by Malin Parmar, Sara has been directing and dissecting the fate of dopaminergic neurons with the aim developing cell replacement therapy for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Here, Sara answers a few questions about her research and

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/thesis-defence-interview-sara-nolbrant - 2025-10-25