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The expression “Sweden’s green gold” has a new meaning. Forests are now not only to provide timber and paper – but also save the climate. Chemical engineering researcher Christian Hulteberg has managed to transform a residual product from pulp manufacturing into a liquid that is chemically identical to petrol. The plan is to have Swedish forest fuel available at service stations by 2021. “This is
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/he-pumps-petrol-trees - 2025-11-07
Adriana Sanna defended a thesis on 20 May, Shamik Mitra on 26 May and Rita Cabrita on 10 June. How come there were three at almost the same time?“All three were admitted simultaneously through MELGEN, a European network that has Marie Curie funding. My trio of doctoral students were amongst the 17 in the network. As all doctoral students were admitted through a European-wide process, they were exc
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/three-doctoral-thesis-defences-1-week - 2025-11-07
Vid typ 2-diabetes kan kroppens celler inte tillgodogöra sig det livsnödvändiga hormonet insulin som produceras i betacellerna i bukspottkörteln. Exakt vad det är som felas betacellen vid typ 2-diabetes är frågan professor Erik Renström söker svaret på. Efter drygt tjugo års framgångsrik forskning på området tilldelas han nu Nordens främsta pris inom diabetesforskning för sin gärning. ”The Knud Lu
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/nordiskt-pris-forskning-om-vad-som-felas-betacellen-vid-typ-2-diabetes - 2025-11-07
Insekters DNA går att fånga in och upptäcka via luften. Det visar forskning från Lunds universitet. Tekniken, som är ny på insektsområdet, kan få stor betydelse för att kartlägga biologisk mångfald framöver och väntas komplettera den traditionella metoden, att samla in insekter med fällor. Fabian Roger, som tog fram tekniken under sin tid som forskare på Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC
https://www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/luftburen-dna-forskarnas-nya-metod-att-kartlagga-insekter - 2025-11-07
A researcher who made invisible female labour visible and had her hypotheses that efficiency thinking in healthcare is neither good nor cheap confirmed when her own husband became ill. Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is a pioneer in elderly research. Photo: Gunnar Menander You could say that Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen is the mother of Swedish elderly care research. When she got a job at the Social
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/efficiency-mindset-inappropriate-elderly-care - 2025-11-07
There is a lot happening at the moment within the University concerning LU’s engagement in the work environment and equal opportunities. It is time to elect health and safety representatives – a very significant role. We are also marking 150 years since women gained the right to study at university and highlighting the fantastic attendance when LU took part in Pride for the first time. Take the op
Att anställa en barnflicka eller au pair har blivit ett vanligare sätt för barnfamiljer att få vardagen att gå ihop och se till att jämställdheten mellan föräldrarna ökar. Införandet av statliga subventioner har bäddat för en ny marknad som tycks leda till att det jämställda föräldraskapet alltmer blir en klassfråga. Nanny, au-pair eller barnflicka. Att betala någon för att ta hand om barnen är et
https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/au-pairer-loser-livspusslet-men-okar-ojamlikheterna - 2025-11-07
Many farmers are positive to measures beneficial for biodiversity and the environment. But bureaucracy and regulatory hassle often stand in the way, says Lovisa Nilsson in a new dissertation, while also calling for better financial incentives for the individual farmer to choose the best environmental measures. In a new doctoral dissertation, presented at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Re
https://www.cec.lu.se/article/farmers-incentives-choosing-most-appropriate-environmental-measures-must-increase - 2025-11-07
Per Nordén is not really new to the job of chief security officer. He started working at Lund University’s security division seventeen years ago, staying until 2007, when he took a break. During his twelve-year absence, he worked in the municipality of Kävlinge and most recently at Tetra Pak. The reason for his return is that he very much enjoyed working at Lund University. From the 26th of June h
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/nordens-new-job-old-one-chief-security-officer-lund-university - 2025-11-07
In type 2 diabetes, the body’s cells are unable to assimilate the essential hormone insulin which is produced in the beta cells of the pancreas. Exactly what is wrong with the beta cells in type 2 diabetes is the question to which Professor Erik Renström at Lund University Diabetes Centre is searching for an answer. After just over twenty years of successful research in the field, he is now being
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/nordic-award-research-what-wrong-beta-cells-type-2-diabetes - 2025-11-07
Psykiska och kognitiva symtom kommer tidigt vid Huntingtons sjukdom och är ofta de svåraste symtomen i sjukdomen, vittnar berörda. Ändå har forskningen, i sin jakt på behandling, främst fokuserat på sjukdomens rörelsestörningar, ett senare symtom. Ny forskning visar att känslohjärnan påverkas tidigare i sjukdomsförloppet och därför bör ges mer fokus vid utvecklingen av nya behandlingar. Artikeln p
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/kanslohjarnan-en-nyckel-i-kampen-mot-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-11-07
Barn i Europa äter tre hekto sockerrika livsmedel per dag och får sammanlagt i sig ett hekto sockerarter. Det visar en omfattande europeisk studie vars svenska del leds från Göteborgs universitet. Webb-TVI studien har forskare intervjuat föräldrarna till 9 500 barn mellan 2 och 9 år om vad deras barn ätit det senaste dygnet. Intervjuerna, som genomfördes i åtta europeiska länder inom ramen för det
https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/barn-i-europa-ater-ett-hekto-socker-om-dagen - 2025-11-07
Dhalion Biotech, a new WCMM spin-off, is transforming bone cancer research. Founded by WCMM Fellow Paul Bourgine and his team, the startup uses human bone organoids to develop advanced tools for cancer modeling and drug testing. WCMM Fellow Paul Bourgine, alongside co-founders Dimitra Zacharaki and Alejandro García García, both researchers in his group, has launched Dhalion Biotech, an innovative
https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/wcmm-fellow-launches-biotech-startup-advancing-bone-cancer-research - 2025-11-07
A new academic year just started and the department has welcomed around 100 new master students, of which almost all of them are international students. Before starting their studies at our master programme with five different specializations, the students participate in our preparatory week learning to study the "LU-way" - the Lund University way. We have talked to the two teachers in charge of t
https://www.ses.lu.se/en/article/new-master-students-learning-lu-way - 2025-11-07
Using fishing-rods laced with dental floss and the Nobel-prize winning Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, Nathalie Feiner wants to reveal some of the deepest mysteries of evolution. At the root of it all: a heartfelt love of lizards. Lying on a thin branch in the terrarium on Nathalie Feiner’s desk in the Department of Biology is a grey-speckled anolis lizard, looking out over the empty coffee c
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/lizards-key-evolutionary-mysteries - 2025-11-07
There is widespread agreement among the physicists and chemists for their establishment in Science Village to take place simultaneously and as soon as possible. There are also proposals for how the two departments could work together. Leif Bülow, head of the Department of Chemistry, describes the forthcoming establishment and merger as an incredible opportunity and says the vast majority of those
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/chance-lifetime - 2025-11-08
What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z and Millennials in the region give unexpected answers but still hold some optimism for further democratisation. Sarah
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-11-07
What happened to the generation that experienced the Jasmine revolution in Tunisia as young? How are their views different from those who were only small children and do not remember the expectations of more freedom and bread? Studies in focus groups representing both Generation Z and Millennials in the region give unexpected answers but still hold some optimism for further democratisation. Sarah
https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/young-tunisia-value-democracy-choose-otherwise - 2025-11-08
Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics, as was seen with the Nobel laurates of 2019. This year’s recipient of the Jan S
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2025-11-07
Artisanal interpretation of ceramics from the Bronze Age shows that a nine-year-old child could be a highly skilled artisan. This was one of the discoveries presented in a new thesis from Lund University. The thesis explores how an artisanal perspective can contribute to archaeology by providing new insights into archaeological artefacts. “I have found that even the most simple household receptacl
