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The cells that produce insulin and glucagon are difficult to access, as they are located inside the fragile pancreas. Researchers looking to understand how they function and what underpins the development of diabetes are therefore often advised to conduct their experiments on animals. The Human Tissue Lab, on the other hand, provides researchers with access to cells from deceased human donors; thi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gold-diabetes-researchers - 2025-09-13

Emma Kritzberg travelled for five days return to participate at a job meeting on Mallorca. Photo: Johan Persson Emma Kritzberg took the train to a meeting on Mallorca. A journey that took 54 hours and cost double what it would have to fly a couple of hours to the Mediterranean island. Yet, flying was never an option. She has not flown once for work or privately in the last six years, a conscious d

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/54-hours-one-way-join-job-meeting-mallorca - 2025-09-14

Åsa Petersén works hard at i to find treatment that slows down Huntington's disease. A person who carries the mutant gene will at some point in his or her life develop the deadly Huntington's disease. This brain disease can be inherited from generation to generation and begins insidiously, making it increasingly difficult to regulate emotions, thoughts, then movements. There is no treatment that s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/huntingtons-disease-fascinating-and-touching-mystery - 2025-09-13

Researchers from Sweden, Germany, Brazil and the USA have developed a financial mechanism to support the protection of the world’s natural heritage. In a recent study, they developed three different design options for an intergovernmental biodiversity financing mechanism. Asking, what would happen if money was given to countries for providing protected areas, they simulated where the money would f

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/what-if-we-paid-countries-protect-biodiversity - 2025-09-13

Ulrika Sandén, taking a break from driving her motorcycle. Photo:Kennet Ruona. She has survived a brain tumour and hates empty phrases such as “seize the day” and “live in the present”. Despite this, after the tumour operation Ulrika Sandén both researched and wrote a book on what she calls “Contentment in the moment”, an approach to life that she assimilated during her years in Vesterålen in nort

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/contentment-moment-makes-life-more-enjoyable - 2025-09-13

Marine archaeologist Brendan Foley has excavated both a warplane from World War II and a 2000-year-old Roman merchant ship. Photo: Brett Seymour It was 17 December 1944. The American B-24 bomber aircraft, better known as the Tulsamerican, was circling the island of Vis off the coast of Croatia. The plane was damaged following an attack by the Germans and finally crashed into the sea. Seven of the

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/deep-diving-history - 2025-09-13

Poster for awareness about the coronavirus outside of a closed school in Kathmandu. Photo: Hanna Geschewski. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequen

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/interview-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski-about-impact-corona-pandemic-nepal - 2025-09-13

Street scene in Kathmandu on the first day of lock-down of the city. Photo: Hanna Geschewski. LUMES student, Hanna Geschewski, has just come back to Sweden after she was temporarily stranded in Nepal during fieldwork for her thesis. In this interview, she reflects on the impact of the corona outbreak on her own studies, and on the society in Nepal, where the socio-economic consequences of global a

https://www.lumes.lu.se/article/reflections-corona-pandemic-lumes-student-hanna-geschewski - 2025-09-13

Inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population. Photo: Stefan Holm/Mostphotos and Carina Andreasson/Mostphotos That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different int

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2025-09-14

Most children are angry sometimes. But to often might be dangerous. Foto: Cresta Johnson/Shutterstock We all remember the disruptive boys in the class. The ones who shoplifted, got into playground fights and started smoking early. Some of these boys were quite simply displaying normal defiance and are now living a good and stable life as adults. But for a few of them, these were warning signs of r

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/early-signs-ending-life-crime - 2025-09-13

Edouard Berrocal Edouard Berrocal, a researcher in combustion physics at Lund University, has been awarded one of the most prestigious grants available to young researchers: an ERC Starting Grant. The grant is worth EUR 1.5 million and will enable him to spend the next five years investigating what happens in the crucial moment at the start of combustion when the liquid fuel is injected into the c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-starting-grant-researcher-combustion - 2025-09-13

The organisation, Aurora, and their many supporters, wound their way in demonstration through central Stockholm from the Swedish parliament buildings to Stockholm District Court to waves of encouragement from bystanders and a sizable media contingent. On 25 November, after two years of intense legal preparations, the youth organsation Aurora, submitted a litigation against the Swedish state for it

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/aurora-climate-litigation - 2025-09-13

Megan Andrews. Megan Andrews is in her second semester of the Bachelor's Programme in Design of Information Systems at the School of Economics and Management. We asked her a few questions about her experiences so far. (The interview is translated from Swedish.)What is your background? “I am originally from Canada, but moved to Sweden four years ago to live with my fiancé. In my home country, I stu

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2025-09-14

Most African countries contribute only marginally to the increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The impact varies across the continent and also within individual countries. An improved set of data increases the possibilities for evaluating future risks, and how to best address

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/africas-vulnerable-ecosystem - 2025-09-13

The cover of Martiné Wlosinska's thesis is illustrated by her sister and shows a heart shaped garlic bulb among garlic cloves. She defends her thesis on the 26th of November. (Photo: Private). Martiné Wlosinska, medical doctor and PhD student, will be defending her thesis titled “Preventing Cardiovascular Disease. Complementary precision medicine” on the 26th of November. In this interview, Martin

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-martine-wlosinska - 2025-09-13

The therapy dog Millie puts on a show in the entrance of Forum Medicum. Photo: Erik Skogh Two therapy dogs instead of one. There was a big turnout on May 5 when the pop-up event "Mental Health on Campus" was held in the Forum Medicum entrance. The goal was to give students a chance to share their thoughts on mental health. Either on a digital bulletin board or post-it notes on-site. Two therapy do

https://www.intramed.lu.se/en/article/therapy-dogs-attracted-students-exchange-ideas-mental-health - 2025-09-13

The University wants to improve its ability to recruit research talent from other countries. A working group has identified existing gaps and developed proposals to address them in order to increase recruitment. Other Swedish higher education institutions are more successful in nominating, recruiting and obtaining funding for international research talent in relation to Wallenberg Academy Fellows,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promise-employment-attract-foreign-research-talent - 2025-09-14

Biodiversity leads to increased crop production, according to a new international study. A diversity of different pollinators and other beneficial organisms in an agricultural landscape leads to an increase in crop production. This has been shown by a comprehensive international study that included researchers from Lund University. The study investigated two so-called ecosystem services that are o

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/biodiversity-leads-increased-crop-production - 2025-09-13

A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun (By natascha [dot] kljun [at] cec [dot] lu [dot] se (Natascha Kljun and Julia Kelly) - published 6 August 2024)Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-09-13

A Swedish forest after a fire. Photo: Natascha Kljun Even in Earth’s high northern-latitude forest, climate change is predicted to make wildfires more frequent and severe.Earth’s far north hosts the boreal forest, a vast green belt that stretches from North America to Siberia. The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest CO₂ sinks. Over the past few thousand years it has removed around 1 trilli

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/forests-destroyed-wildfires-emit-carbon-long-after-flames-die - 2025-09-13