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Half as many diagnosed with depression, a delayed manifestation of Parkinson’s, a reduced risk of developing vascular dementia - but not Alzheimer’s. These connections were discovered by researchers when they compared 200 000 people who had participated in a long-distance cross-country ski race between 1989 and 2010 with a matched cohort of the general population. The results of the population reg

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/skiers-had-lower-incidence-depression-and-vascular-dementia-not-alzheimers - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Not all neonicotinoid insecticides have negative effects on bees, according to researchers at Lund University and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Their new study indicates that the use of certain neonicotinoids could benefit bumblebees and pollination. In a field study, the researchers Maj Rundlöf, Lu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/watch-use-certain-neonicotinoids-could-benefit-bumblebees-new-study-finds - 2026-06-25

The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has announced 29 new Wallenberg Academy Fellows. Three of them come from Lund University. The five-year grant provides the young researchers with opportunities to make important scientific breakthroughs by providing long-term research funding in Sweden. Vladislava Stoyanova: The Borders Within: The Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Euro

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-researchers-lund-university-become-wallenberg-academy-fellows-2019 - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers in Sweden and the UK have discovered the largest known avian sex chromosome. The giant chromosome was created when four chromosomes fused together into one, and has been found in two species of lark. “This was an unexpected discovery, as birds are generally considered to have very stable genetic material w

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/record-size-sex-chromosome-found-two-bird-species - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international research team has called for a more sober discourse around climate change prospects, following an extensive reassessment of climate change’s progress and its mitigation. They argue that climate change models have understated potential warming’s speed and runaway potential, while the models that relate

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/energy-advances-open-door-more-aggressive-climate-policies - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Parasport continues to grow worldwide. A new thesis from Lund University in Sweden shows how Paralympic athletes run the risk of both being injured by strenuous training as well as being affected by injuries and illness due to their impairment. The results indicate that the incidence is almost twice as high when compa

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/injuries-and-illness-are-big-concerns-paralympic-athletes-unique-study-reveals - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. There is no magic formula for who is going to win a Nobel Prize, but there are many common denominators among Nobel Prize winners, according to Pauline Mattsson from the School of Economics and Management at Lund University. According to Pauline Mattsson’s research, there is a distinction between the majority of Nobel

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nobel-prize-winners-rock-stars-week - 2026-06-25

The European Research Council today announced the winners of its latest Consolidator Grant competition: 301 top scientists and scholars across Europe. Funding for these researchers, part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, is worth in total EUR 600 million. Filipe Pereira at Lund University in Sweden is one of the 89 selected researchers, and will be awarded an ERC Consolidator

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prestigious-erc-grant-innovative-immunotherapy-research - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. By analysing almost daily water samples taken from the same river from 1940 until today, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have confirmed their hypothesis that the browning of lakes is primarily due to the increase in coniferous forests, as well as rainfall and sulphur deposits. The study was carried out on the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-data-confirms-why-water-turns-brown - 2026-06-25

Neuroscientists at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new technology that engineers the shell of a virus to deliver gene therapy to the exact cell type in the body that needs to be treated. The researchers believe that the new technology can be likened to dramatically accelerating evolution from millions of years to weeks. Several of the new revolutionary treatments that have been used cli

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/high-tech-method-uniquely-targeted-gene-therapy-developed - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Despite creative efforts to tackle it, belief in conspiracy theories, alternative facts and fake news show no sign of abating. This is clearly a huge problem, as seen when it comes to climate change, vaccines and expertise in general – with anti-scientific attitudes increasingly influencing politics. So why can’t we s

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/conspiracy-theories-how-belief-rooted-evolution-not-ignorance - 2026-06-25

Using lipidomics, a technique that measures the composition of blood lipids at a molecular level, and machine learning, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a blood lipid profile that improves the possibility to assess, several years in advance, the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The blood lipid profile can also be linked to a certain diet and degree of physical activity.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that plant-eating insects affect forest ecosystems considerably more than previously thought. Among other things, the insects are a factor in the leaching of nutrients from soil and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. The researchers also establish that the temperatu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-eating-insects-disrupt-ecosystems-and-contribute-climate-change - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Extremely acute vision and the ability to rapidly process different visual impressions – these two factors are crucial when a peregrine falcon bears down on its prey at a speed that easily matches that of a Formula 1 racing car: over 350 kilometres per hour. The visual acuity of birds of prey has been studied extensiv

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/falcons-see-prey-speed-formula-1-car - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The risk of experiencing financial difficulties due to medical care costs is relatively small in Sweden. This is revealed in a recent report from the World Health Organization, where researchers from Lund University have investigated the extent to which Swedish households are financially affected by using the health c

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/who-report-healthcare-sweden-among-most-affordable-europe - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Advocate General Sylvaine Laulom, Cour de Cassation, France, Professor Anne Ruth Mackor, University of Groningen, and Assistant Professor Anders Nordgaard, Linköping University, have been appointed honorary doctors at the Faculty of Law at Lund University. Sylvaine LaulomSylvaine Laulom (born 1967) is Advocate General

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-honorary-doctors-law-lund-university - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have used a neuropeptide to successfully reduce seizure-like activity in tissue from patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. One challenge facing researchers who study brain diseases is that for understandable reasons it is difficult to obtain human brain tissue for experiments.

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/peptide-reduced-epileptic-seizures-human-brain-tissue - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new hydrogel based on the body’s natural peptide defense. It has been shown to prevent and treat infections in wounds. The formulation kills multi-resistant bacteria, something that is increasing in importance with antibiotic resistance growing globally. “The a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/next-generation-wound-gel-treats-and-prevents-infections - 2026-06-25

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Different views and values within an organisation can complicate collaborations with other organisations. However, leaders who are prepared for this may be more successful in navigating their way through the storm unscathed. This is discussed in a newly published article by researcher Anna Brattström in the prestigiou

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/distrust-and-hope-characterise-innovation-collaborations - 2026-06-25

Cancer patients responded better to immunotherapy and had a better prognosis if their melanoma tumours contained specific clusters of B cells, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The study is published in Nature. Immunotherapy strengthens the immune system so that it can fight cancer more effectively. One type of immunotherapy is checkpoint therapy, that targets the checkpoin

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/b-cells-linked-effective-cancer-immunotherapy - 2026-06-25