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Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Två injektioner av ett hundra år gammalt vaccin ger långvarig och dramatisk effekt på blodsockret vilket i det närmaste normaliseras. Detta hos patienter som har haft typ 1 diabetes i många år. Låter det hoppfullt? För bra för att vara sant? Gruppen bakom forskningen hävdar att mycket tyder på att det är sant. Andra

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/tuberkulosvaccin-mot-typ-1-diabetes - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Torbjörn von Schantz tycker att han kommit en bra bit på vägen till ett enat universitet. I sin ledningsgrupp möter han nu mer av gemensamt ansvarstagande och mindre av stuprörstänkande och särintressen. Det han saknat mest under sina rektorsår är närheten till verksamheten i övrigt. – Jag gillar att snacka med folk

https://www.lu.se/artikel/avgaende-rektor-nojd-med-att-fler-ser-till-helheten - 2026-07-10

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “The state sold us for 49 years.” These are the words of one of the farmers that doctoral student Mine Islar has interviewed in Turkey. Her recently completed thesis is about the conflicts that have arisen when the government gives private companies the right to the water in several Turkish rivers. Mine Islar. “The ri

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/local-community-protests-against-leasing-rivers - 2026-07-09

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 studied psychology

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/bsc-student-portrait-megan-andrews - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Off the coast at Haväng, forests several thousands of years old are hidden below the sea. When researchers dive down to examine the well-preserved tree-trunks, they are literally diving deep into human history. Arne Sjöström gets ready for another sea dive. The morning sun is glittering on the calm surface of the Balt

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studying-stone-age-forest-under-sea - 2026-07-09

Informal networking, panel discussion, and Q&A session. During the forum for LTH's employees last week, Dean Annika Olsson highlighted a selection of recent good news from LTH. The management also discussed some of the key issues for the coming years – including strategic recruitment and the fact that, despite major successes, LTH cannot rest on its laurels in the competition for large grants. Emp

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/best-obtaining-erc-grants-and-40-cent-new-students-are-women - 2026-07-09

With a focus on pancreatic regeneration and diabetes, Christos Karampelias is the latest recruit to WCMM Lund. In this interview, he discusses his research vision, the importance of collaboration and what excites him about joining Lund University. Christos Karampelias is a biomedical researcher whose work focuses on diabetes, metabolism and pancreatic biology, with particular emphasis on how insul

https://www.wcmm.lu.se/article/understanding-and-rebuilding-pancreas-meet-newly-recruited-wcmm-fellow-christos-karampelias - 2026-07-09

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. I somras införde regeringen en tillfällig lag för att minska spel på nätkasino, spelautomater och andra former av spel under pandemin. Men även om högriskspelare verkar ha störst sannolikhet att öka sitt spelande under pandemin, är det få av dem som direkt har påverkats av lagen, visar en ny studie från Lunds univer

https://www.lu.se/artikel/problemspelande-i-i-riskzonen-trots-lag-om-spelreglering - 2026-07-10

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Nu aktuella dokumentärfilmen Map of Salvation berättar om den gräsrotsrörelse som blev motpol till en av historiens mest förbisedda mänskliga katastrofer - folkmordet på kristna minoritetsgrupper i turkiska Armenien. Lundahistorikern Maria Småberg har bidragit till filmprojektet genom sin forskning om en av filmens

https://www.lu.se/artikel/hennes-forskning-blev-viktig-pusselbit-i-armenisk-folkmordsfilm - 2026-07-09

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 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Being director of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics is about choosing what to do, and what not to do. At the start, Lena Neij travelled a lot, but now she sees representing the institute abroad as a responsibility shared by all the staff. She still supervises doctoral students, but doe

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/there-are-lot-duties-role - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “My first project was about giving poor families in Thailand the opportunity to send their children to school. A student and I helped set up chicken farms at the schools, which the children took care of. The money they earned by selling the eggs on the markets covered their school fees”. Leif Bjellin. Photo: Gunnar Me

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/helping-earthquake-victims-nepal - 2026-07-09

Synchrotron radiation helps vision researcher Emily Baird create three-dimensional images of how insects see the world. In the future, this could lead to sighted drones that navigate through the air like insects, without being remote controlled from the ground. “I enjoy research more than anything, and the most fun part is that I am forced to be creative and make constant progress, says Emily Bair

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/studies-bees-can-enable-drones-see - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New Lund students are generally younger and have better educated parents than the average Swedish student. This emerges from the figures in a new LU report. Despite a series of initiatives to attract more students from non-academic backgrounds in recent decades, there is little progress. Now a major regional approach

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/initiatives-aimed-children-widen-participation - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “I am a political activist and want to broaden and deepen the subject of film studies”, says Chris Holmlund, who is spending the spring as a visiting professor at Lund University. She is a prominent figure in the world’s largest organisation for film researchers and in that capacity will represent Lund University at c

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-film-studies-prominent-among-film-researchers - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Exporting the Swedish welfare model is not a good idea. At least not as a recipe for achieving a more sustainable society, says Professor Max Koch, manager of a research team that links the climate crisis with welfare. Sweden’s relatively low carbon emissions, despite a high gross domestic product, are partly due to t

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/measuring-success-terms-economic-growth-devastating-our-climate - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The key to increased well-being in Africa lies in improving small scale farming – at least if you want to see improvements within a foreseeable future, according to Göran Djurfeldt. Together with Ola Hall, he has now launched a project using drones to understand why harvests vary so much from one field to the next, de

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/drone-images-could-solve-african-farming-mystery - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In this short interview, LUCSUS researcher Diego Galafassi talks on sustainability challenges, his previous research, and his recent article about climate art. What do you do at LUCSUS?I’m a post-doctoral researcher, co-PI of the project Arts4SDGs, which explores the role that arts and arts-based approaches to knowled

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/research-interview-diego-galafassi-works-art-sdgs - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “Solutions to limit the climate impact of plastics” was the topic of this years Climathon in Lund. The 24 hour hackathon gathered 54 participants and was thereby one of the larger among the 113 Climathons held simultaneous all around the world. Climathon in Lund was organised by a consortia of five very different orga

https://www.climate-kic.lu.se/article/climathon-lund-2018-0 - 2026-07-09

In this series, we continue our reporting on the timeline of surgical treatment of late stage osteoarthritis. Today we meet Sven, who has had problems with pain and limited mobility in one of his knees for several years. After visiting his primary care health center, Sven received physical therapy and has been doing exercises at home, carefully following instructions. He has also received several

https://www.arthritisportal.lu.se/article/reportage-come-sven-his-surgery - 2026-07-09