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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Internationella Diabetesfederationen (IDF) publicerar nya och än mer dystra siffror om världens diabetesepidemi. I länder som inte tillhör den rika världen ligger diabetes bakom miljoner människors fattigdom. Sjukdomen är så spridd att samhällsutvecklingen hotas. Sju av tio av världens diabetiker lever i låg- eller

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetes-gor-manniskor-fattiga-och-hotar-samhallsekonomin - 2026-05-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Diabetes är den vanligaste orsaken till amputationer i västvärlden. Nu visar en internationell forskargrupp att blodfettssänkande läkemedel av typen fenofibrater minskar amputationsrisken med 36 procent. Orsakerna till att diabetespatienter kan tvingas amputera en del av en fot eller ett ben är flera. Dålig blodcirk

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/minskad-risk-amputation-med-blodfettssankare - 2026-05-01

Uppdrag för att främja öppen vetenskap Lärosäten och forskningsfinansiärer har ett gemensamt ansvar för att den nationella riktningen för öppen tillgång till forskningsdata och vetenskapliga publikationer efterföljs och uppnås. Nu får Vetenskapsrådet och KB förtydligade samordningsuppdrag för öppen vetenskap. Mer information: Uppdrag för att främja öppen vetenskap ”Vi vill få ner kostnaderna för p

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-maj-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-1 - 2026-05-01

Antalet sökande till höstens internationella kurser och program har ökat med 16 procent i hela Sverige. Lunds universitet ligger som vanligt i topp vad gäller antalet ansökningar och har för första gången nått över 30 000 ansökningar totalt i den internationella mastersomgången (Master HT25) med 31 947 ansökningar. Detta innebär en ökning med cirka 15 procent jämfört med ansökningarna till höstter

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/rekordmanga-sokande-till-vara-internationella-kurser-och-program - 2026-05-02

Är du universitetslektor, lärare, lärarstudent, eller forskare inom utbildningsvetenskap? Eller bara allmänt intresserad av skolfrågor och högre utbildning? Välkommen till höstens Högre seminarier i utbildningsvetenskap. Under fyra tillfällen får du möjlighet att fördjupa dig i teman som emotionella utmaningar i undervisningen, lärarens roll i kunskapsförmedling och AI:s intåg i högre utbildning,

https://www.medarbetarwebben.lu.se/artikel/upptack-hostens-seminarier-inom-utbildningsvetenskap - 2026-05-02

Last month, Ella Quist defended her Ph.D. thesis. After beginning her research journey as a master’s student within our Ph.D. Preparatory Program, she dedicated the last several years to developing more efficient methods that can be used to generate functional and mature astrocytes for disease modeling of neurological disorders. In this interview, we learn more about her efforts to facilitate futu

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/generating-human-astrocytes-disease-modeling-phd-interview-ella-quist - 2026-05-01

The Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management (LUSEM) offer a course for those who are planning to apply for docent (associate professor/reader) in the near future. The course is seminar-based and designed to be inspirational, but also to provide useful knowledge about the research process and academia in general. Participants are also provided with an intensive version

https://www.sam.lu.se/en/internal/article/becoming-docent-joint-course-faculty-social-sciences-and-lusem-0 - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An exciting, interesting and well-visited BECC annual meeting went off October 17-18 at Falkenberg Grand Hotel. The program was filled with lessons from the past and implications for the future regarding biodiversity conservation and policy. The meeting ended with perspectives from a climate journalist and his great t

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-yearly-meeting - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new research project aims to contribute to greater understanding between Central Asian and EU business and legal cultures, and lower the risk of foreign companies becoming involved in corruption. To achieve this, about a dozen universities in Europe and Central Asia are involved in an extensive exchange scheme of re

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociology-law-department-leads-unique-effort-facilitate-business-between-eu-and-central-asia - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Senior Lecturer Isabel Schoultz and project assistant Heraclitos Muhire at the Sociology of Law Department lead the endeavour they hope will help improve labour market policies and practices, bettering the conditions for immigrated labourers. In a report published in 2019, the European Union Agency for Funda

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/sociologists-law-investigating-migrant-worker-exploitation-nordics - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Kenan Madi, a former student at our Master's programme with the specialisation Logistics, spent the summer at the Jordanian- Syrian border as an Emergency specialist for UNICEF. Kenan was working with UNICEF to support coordination of critical lifesaving services and supplies for Syrian children and families at Jordan

https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/master-student-helped-syrian-refugees-during-summer - 2026-05-01

The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has a included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High temperatures in combination with humid air may cause extreme heat known as wet bulb temperature, o

https://www.nateko.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2026-05-01

The summer 2022 brought extreme heatwaves in many places globally, and the debate has included the term "killer heat". In moist areas the high temperatures will be even harder to the human body, and the rising temperatures may make certain areas very hard to live in by the end of this century. High temperatures in combination with humid air may cause extreme heat known as wet bulb temperature, or

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/killer-heat-may-make-middle-east-uninhabitable-within-century - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The climate crisis has received less media coverage during the corona pandemic despite that many think the climate challenges demand equally urgent attention. During the coming two weeks the United Nations gather the world in the Climate Dialogues 2020 “to increase the momentum for greater climate ambition” in an onli

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/global-climate-dialogues-boost-climate-work - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The issues of undocumented migrants and deportations of unaccompanied minors have increasingly become a challenge in social work. Vanna Nordling’s doctoral dissertation is a study of how social workers handle their role as on the one hand support workers but also representatives of institutions of control. How did the

https://www.soch.lu.se/en/article/social-workers-challenged-irregular-migration - 2026-05-01

Tell us, why Tunisia? As a PhD student in political science with a focus on comparative politics in the Middle East, I investigate feminist activism and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Tunisia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. What interests me is largely that feminism is usually seen as a European or Western "product" that is exported to the rest of the worl

https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/hi-there-joel-w-abdelmoez-just-back-fieldwork-tunisia - 2026-05-01

LONGREAD. He treats tremor with sound waves, is preparing to help paralyzed patients control a cursor with their thoughts and envisions a future where brain and machines talk to each other in both directions. Neurosurgeon and researcher Andres Lozano is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the human brain – and doing it with both precision and imagination. “We are trying to discover the b

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/fine-tuning-neural-circuits-heal-brain-segerfalk-lecturer-andres-lozano-next-gen-neurosurgery - 2026-05-01

The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-15) is just around the corner. Taking place in Malmö, July 6–11, the conference will showcase groundbreaking advancements in materials, physics, optical and electronic devices based on group-III nitride semiconductors. As the call for abstracts deadline for the upcoming conference ICNS-15 approaches, we asked one of the chairs, Vany

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/gearing-nitride-semiconductors-conference-icns-15 - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Curiosity and the desire to learn are strong driving forces behind Almut Kelber’s research and her work as Pro Dean for research at the Faculty of Science. Almut Kelber says that knowledge about the animals’ solutions can also provide answers to general problems. “In my work as pro dean, it is important that I also co

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/captivated-colour-vision-birds-and-moths - 2026-05-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. DPP-4 inhibitors are a group of drugs used to treat type 1 diabetes that lower high blood usgar levels by stimulating insulin production in the body. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered that DPP-4 inhibitors are also effective against low blood sugar levels. The study, which was carried out on

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/diabetes-drug-could-protect-against-low-blood-sugar - 2026-05-01