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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 - 2026-05-17

A meeting at the kitchen table, with lots of coffee and snus. And a donation of SEK 250 million. That’s what happened when Ingvar Kamprad met LTH’s dean in 1998 to talk about the future of industrial design education at the University. The kitchen table belonged to the then dean of LTH Thomas Johannesson, who had invited the founder of IKEA to his house to discuss a collaboration between the desig

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/ingvar-kamprad-design-center-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary - 2026-05-18

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 lip

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/blood-lipid-profile-predicts-risk-type-2-diabetes-better-obesity - 2026-05-17

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.cec.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Giving yourself a pat on the back rather than thinking that you should have performed better – self-compassion is about being as friendly and kind to yourself as you would be to a close friend or colleague. Anna Pardo. Photo: Kennet Ruona Anna Pardo is a psychologist, registered psychotherapist and psychotherapy super

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/silence-your-inner-critic-its-stressful-will-not-improve-your-performance - 2026-05-17

This April, the first national interim report on responsible internationalisation was published. The aim is to create national guidelines and a national support structure for responsible internationalisation. The report is commissioned by the Swedish government and is written by Universitets- och högskolerådet (UHR), Vetenskapsrådet och Vinnova. Tommy Shih and Sylvia Schwaag Serger, both researche

https://www.lusem.lu.se/internal/article/responsible-internationalisation-tommy-shih-comments-new-national-report - 2026-05-17

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The bad news about malignant melanoma is that the disease is increasing more rapidly than most other types of cancer. The good news is that it is easy to cure, as long as it is detected in time. A research group in Lund has therefore started a project that it is hoped will make it easier to correctly diagnose suspicio

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tape-could-simplify-skin-cancer-diagnosis - 2026-05-17

Effects of a warmer Arctic are not only negative for the climate, according to a new thesis from the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. Modelling showed that moving the tree line upwards could increase carbon storage, as trees sequester more carbon in their biomass than tundra plants. But the results are uncertain. The Arctic – the area north of the Arctic Cir

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/complex-consequences-warmer-arctic - 2026-05-17

For the 73rd time, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting will be arranged. It takes place 30 June–5 July 2024 in Bayern, Germany, by the beautiful Bodensee. One of the participants this year is Ruby Davtyan, a doctoral student at NanoLund and Solid State Physics. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are internationally renowned conferences, attended annually by about 30–40 Nobel Laureates and some of th

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/next-stop-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2026-05-17

You have to respect the fact that collaboration takes time and is not always so easy to achieve, according to Louise Bringselius, who recently started the Institute for Public Affairs together with researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the School of Economics and Management. During her years as a research leader for the Trust Delegation, Louise Bringselius built a large network among

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-tool-researchers-take-part-public-debate - 2026-05-17

If you look carefully at Niclas Nilsson’s hands and arms, you can still see the scars from all the injections he has received through the years for his haemophilia, although they have faded considerably since January 2020. That was when he got his last injection. Indeed, since his treatment with gene therapy, Niclas has not needed a single injection. Niclas Nilsson comes from a family of haemophil

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/i-wore-hockey-helmet-until-i-was-four-years-old - 2026-05-17

A multifaceted British-Israeli researcher has been awarded the prestigious visiting professorship in Olof Palme’s memory and will spend 10 months at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. The right to euthanasia, multiculturalism and peace in Israel and Palestine are a few of his areas of research. LUM meets Raphael Cohen-Almagor in an attic room at the Centre for Advan

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/professorship-olof-palmes-memory-british-israeli-researcher - 2026-05-18

Major roadworks around Lund will soon affect commuting options for those who work in Lund but live outside the city. The road projects affect the E22 at the Lund Södra interchange and road 108 between Staffanstorp and Lund. At certain times there will be planned total road closures during the period 2025 to 2026. To provide commuting staff members with support and information about what is happeni

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-soon-time-total-closures-e22-and-road-108 - 2026-05-18

After 15 years, hundreds of meetings, conferences, opinion pieces, interviews and trips to Stockholm, it happened – the Government adopted the Housing First model as a national strategy for tackling homelessness. “We are very proud. We have just finished an information guide that the National Board of Health and Welfare will distribute to Sweden’s social workers,” Marcus Knutagård tells LUM when w

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/finally-housing-first-model-adopted-national-strategy - 2026-05-18

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Som läkare behöver man ha både högt specialiserad medicinsk kompetens och vara tränad i att möta sjuka människors känslor och behov. Satsningen på Medicinsk humaniora på läkarprogrammet i Lund och har nu kunnat permanentas med hjälp av en stor donation från Birgit Rausing. Den 15 februari uppmärksammas händelsen med

https://www.lu.se/artikel/mot-konst-poesi-och-litteratur-genom-lakarstudenters-ogon-pa-skissernas-museum - 2026-05-17

Professor Henrik Smith fick på lördagen den 2 december motta Roséns Linnépris i zoologi från Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund. Priset får Henrik Smith för sina forskningsinsatser inom biodiversitet och bevarandet av biologisk mångfald i dagens föränderliga miljö. Priset delar Henrik med Love Dalén, professor i evolutionär genomik vid Stockholms universitet. Forskning om hot mot och bevaran

https://www.cec.lu.se/sv/artikel/professor-henrik-smith-har-mottagit-rosens-linnepris-i-zoologi - 2026-05-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nitrat, som förekommer naturligt i till exempel spenat, har en kraftigt positiv effekt på muskelstyrka. Nu har forskare vid Karolinska Institutet lyckats förklara vad det beror på, genom att identifiera två relevanta proteiner som ökar i musklerna efter intag av nitrat. I undersökningen fick möss nitrat via sitt dri

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/spenatens-gata-lost-darfor-gor-den-oss-starka - 2026-05-18

Antalet insekter i Europa har minskat dramatiskt under de senaste decennierna. Men inte i fjällbjörkskogen i västerbottniska Ammarnäs. Här har forskare under 53 år kartlagt populationerna och kan i en ny studie konstatera att antalet insekter och spindlar är i princip detsamma som när studien inleddes på 60-talet. Ammarnäs är en liten fjällnära ort i Sorsele kommun, naturskönt belägen på näset mel

https://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/artikel/lapplandskt-leddjursliv-kartlagt-i-unik-langtidsstudie - 2026-05-17

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Genom att förse fåglar med en liten ljusregistrerande ryggsäck kan man mäta deras geografiska position. Med hjälp av den nya tekniken har forskare vid Lunds universitet lyckats avslöja den mindre strandpiparens hittills okända vinterviste. Intressant nog var övervintringsplatserna vitt skilda geografiskt – från Nige

https://www.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-avslojar-faglars-vinterviste - 2026-05-18

Taha Sen’s PhD thesis focus on the life span of red blood cells and elucidates the important role of mitochondria. He is defending his thesis on the 17th of November and in this interview he gives us an overview of his results as well as what it’s been like being a doctoral student during a pandemic. Can you tell us about the research during your PhD? I’ve been focusing my thesis work on the life

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-taha-sen - 2026-05-17