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Plants and bacteria make use of sunlight with remarkably high efficiency: nine out of ten absorbed light particles are being put to use in an ordinary bacterium. For years it has been a pressing question of modern research whether or not effects from quantum physics are responsible for this outstanding performance of natural light harvesters. A team of European research groups, a collaboration bet

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/quantum-physics-artificial-light-harvesting-0 - 2025-11-17

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that women with low levels of an anti-stress hormone have an increased risk of getting breast cancer. The study is the first of its kind on humans and confirms previous similar observations from animal experiments. The recent findings on a potential new marker for the risk of developing breast cancer are presented in the renowned Journal of Clinical

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/anti-stress-hormone-may-provide-indication-breast-cancer-risk - 2025-11-17

Teenagers suffering from severe obesity generally feel worse than their peers, but after undergoing gastric bypass nearly all experience improved mental health. One in five, however, still suffers from symptoms of depression – some quite seriously. These are the results of a new study from Lund University in Sweden, published in Obesity. The study is the largest two-year follow-up in the world reg

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-adolescents-feel-better-after-gastric-bypass - 2025-11-17

Lack of microinvaginations in the cell membrane, caveolae, can cause serious diseases such as lipodystrophy and muscular dystrophy. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have now discovered a “main switch” that regulates the formation of these invaginations. Many cells in the body are equipped with small microinvaginations in the cell membrane called caveolae. They are important for the cell’s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/important-regulation-cell-invaginations-discovered - 2025-11-17

Kent Ngo, one of the Lund University students who founded FoPo Food Powder, talks about the product and how their studies have helped them launch their own business. WATCH: Interview with FoPo founder Kent Ngo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/fopo-founder-how-studies-helped-us-become-entrepreneurs - 2025-11-17

Linguist Niclas Burenhult has been awarded close to SEK 14 million by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond for his field project Language as key to perceptual diversity: an interdisciplinary approach to the senses. “We like to believe that everyone perceives the world in the same way. But studying small and lesser-known languages and cultures reveals an incredible diversity in how people describe sensory imp

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/language-key-understanding-diversity-our-senses - 2025-11-17

An antibody that did not fulfil its purpose against the disease multiple sclerosis, MS, instead made its big break in cancer research and is now starring in southern Sweden’s largest licensing agreement in Life Science history. The “father” of the antibody is Professor Carl Borrebaeck. It is one of the windiest days in late summer, and the wind is blowing especially hard to the north at the Medico

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/successful-antibody-behind-billion-crown-life-science-deal - 2025-11-17

Researchers from Lund University, Sweden, and USA have shown that our understanding of how organic material is decomposed by fungi and bacteria is fundamentally wrong. This means that climate models that include microorganisms to estimate future climate change must be reconsidered. When a plant dies, its leaves and branches fall to the ground. Decomposition of soil organic matter is then mainly ca

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/future-climate-models-greatly-affected-fungi-and-bacteria - 2025-11-17

The Max IV facility, set to become the brightest x-ray source in the world, and the world’s first ‘fourth generation’ particle accelerator, has reached a major milestone. The accelerator group has now succeeded in directing the electron beam all the way around the large 3 GeV ring for the first time. “This is of course fantastically exciting and satisfying,” says Pedro Fernandes Tavares, project m

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/electrons-are-now-spinning-max-iv - 2025-11-17

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden may have discovered one of the keys to understanding how the body develops acute pancreatitis. The results offer hope for the development of drugs that specifically target the disease. Within gastro research it is a well-known fact that the excessive activation of a type of white blood cells, neutrophils, causes the inflammation of the pancreas. Until now,

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/false-alarm-body-may-be-responsible-acute-pancreatitis - 2025-11-17

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown that well-developed eyes come at a surprising cost to other organ systems. The study involving Mexican cavefish shows that the visual system can require between 5% and 15% of an animal’s total energy budget. Researchers have long associated the presence of a well-developed brain with major energy consumption. This means that animals that develo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/large-eyes-come-high-cost - 2025-11-17

Lund University has once again been ranked as the number one university in Sweden and the 70th best in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2015/16 that was released today. With 17,000 internationally recognised universities in the world, this ranking reinforces Lund University’s place in the global top tier of higher education, among 0.4% of the world’s universities. The QS World Univers

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/top-100-qs-world-university-rankings-2015 - 2025-11-17

Christelle Prinz, professor of solid state physics and affiliated to NanoLund, receives 150,000 euros to further develop research results that are considered to have great innovation potential by the European Research Council. For several years, physicist Christelle Prinz has developed nanotechnology to diagnose and study diseases in various ways, such as cancer. In an ongoing ERC project, she and

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-one-step-covid-detection - 2025-11-17

By studying cold atoms, researchers have in a unique way been able to observe a precursor to a quantum phase transition, and thereby study physical processes that can be compared to the Higgs mechanism. The discovery can, among other things, provide more knowledge about quantum mechanical processes that are similar to the processes in which matter changes its state from gas, liquid, or solid form

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/observing-emergence-quantum-phase-transition-shell-shell - 2025-11-17

What is all the dark matter in the universe made of? Could it be connected to new particles that can be produced at the Large Hadron Collider? Caterina Doglioni, assistant senior lecturer in particle physics, will search for new particles beyond the known fundamental components of matter with the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Caterina Doglioni is receiving around SEK 20 mill

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/prestigious-erc-consilidator-grant-awarded-caterina-doglioni - 2025-11-17

Building engines – out of proteins. That’s the aim for a research project, coordinated by Heiner Linke at NanoLund, Lund University in Sweden. The project is now being funded by the European Research Council (ERC) – it received a EUR 10 million ERC Synergy Grant. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to researchers who developed molecular machines, that is, molecules that convert light int

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-grant-awarded-research-project-protein-motors - 2025-11-17

The Optical Society, OSA, awards NanoLundian Atomic Physics professor Anne l’Huillier the Max Born Award for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics. Anne L’Huillier, professor of Atomic Physics and affiliated member of NanoLund, has been awarded the Optical Society Max Born Award 2021 “for pioneering work in ultrafast laser science and attosecond physics, realizing and u

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/anne-lhuillier-wins-max-born-award - 2025-11-17

A research project on how to observe and control the movement of electrons will soon commence at LTH thanks to a multi-million donation from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Per Eng-Johnsson, professor at the Division of Atomic Physics, will receive just over SEK 25 million for doing something that no one has done before. He aims to combine two different laser-based techniques to study ho

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/unique-research-project-electrons-awarded-grant - 2025-11-17

NanoLund affiliated researcher recieves funding to develop a new microscope. Pablo Villanueva Perez, associate senior lecturer in Synchrotron Radiation Physics, will develop a completely new X-ray microscope to improve the study and filming of different materials in 3D. Today this is done using microtomography (μCT) by irradiating a rotating sample with X-rays so that it is struck from different d

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/erc-starting-grant-rewarded-pablo-villanueva-perez - 2025-11-17

If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit when we sing – and by extension – if we contribute to the increased spread of Co

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2025-11-17