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Recently, a new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile captured its first starlight. This marks the start of a new era in astronomy, where researchers will map the sky in unprecedented detail. The instrument, called 4MOST (Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope), does not take ordinary images of the night sky. Instead, it collects spectra or colour

https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/new-eye-universe-opens-chile - 2025-11-21

On Friday, February 28, Monica Porzionato defended her thesis "Feeling the changing climate: An affective approach to the strategic communication of floods in a tourist city". Strategic communication studies usually consider emotions as psychological effects of communication or as an influence on people's understanding of an issue. In the first case, emotions like joy or desire result from strateg

https://www.iko.lu.se/en/article/successful-defence-dr-monica-porzionato - 2025-11-23

Ungefär en av tjugo personer drabbas av långdragna covid-19-symtom, men vilka är de? Uppdaterad version 2021-04-15 Den 29 april anordnas ett webinar om långdragna symtom vid covid-19. Läs mer om detta här. Tillsammans med våra kollegor på King’s College London och Massachusetts General Hospital i Boston har vi studerat personer med långdragna covid-19 symtom. I en studie som analyserat data från d

https://www.covid19app.lu.se/artikel/langdragna-symtom-vid-covid-19 - 2025-11-21

The EAT-Lancet diet is a framework designed to promote environmental sustainability while also preventing common diseases such as type 2 diabetes. How do we know if the diet actually works? An international research team studied seven dietary scores and found that two of them were particularly good at evaluating adherence to the diet. Reliable diet scores are important when developing sustainable

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/research-paves-way-sustainable-dietary-guidelines - 2025-11-21

As a PhD student he made a significant discovery when he identified ghrelin cells in the pancreatic islands. Four hormone-producing cells were already known to exist in the islands, including the insulin cell. The ghrelin cell became the fifth such cell. “In the scientific world, the discovery of a new type of cell in a human organ is a big deal. So naturally this was an important find. Especially

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/flying-start-fifth-cell - 2025-11-21

From internal training courses for university lecturers in which the participants take a deep dive into case method teaching, to dedicated conferences and competitions. The alternatives to traditional classroom teaching are increasing and one of them is known as case method teaching, with assignments based on real situations which students must solve in collaboration. April was high season for cas

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/how-case-method-teaching-spreads-one-lecturer-another - 2025-11-21

On 03 March 2023, Jenny Mattsson defended her Ph.D. thesis. With the goal to broaden the availability of antibody-based drugs for patients with cancer and other diseases, she has spent the past several years working to develop new methods that can be used to identify new antibodies and antibody targets. In this interview, we learn more about her research, how she has simultaneously juggled doing a

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/new-methods-phenotypic-antibody-discovery-phd-interview-jenny-mattsson - 2025-11-21

Science should be able to be reproduced, but in reality, this is a step that is often overlooked. Researcher Burak Tunca at Lund University School of Economics and Management sees several possible measures that could make research better – and more open. “Researchers should always pre-register their studies and be open with their data. That way we can avoid bias and hypotheses being changed during

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/new-findings-noted-research-fails-replicate - 2025-11-22

I år är det totalt 23 forskare i Sverige som får ERC Starting Grant (StG), varav 6 stycken vid Lunds universitet Rik Ossenkoppele, biträdande universitetslektor vid Klinisk minnesforskning, Medicinska fakulteten, får 1,5 miljoner euro under fem år arbeta med projektet TAU-NOW ”Tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease: Spreading and Resilience”.Rik Ossenkoppeles ERC-projekt syftar till att. studera pro

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/lundaforskare-far-dela-pa-100-miljoner-kronor-fran-europeiska-forskningsradet - 2025-11-21

Plantering av syntetiskt DNA, biometrisk utpressning av makthavare och genetisk hybridkrigföring. Det är några av de nya risker som har uppstått genom de forskningsframsteg som gjorts inom genetisk teknologi och kan utnyttjas i modern krigföring. Forskare vid Lunds universitet menar att vi behöver identifiera vilka de mest kritiska riskerna är och diskutera hur dessa kan förebyggas. Det internatio

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/risker-nar-ny-genteknik-anvands-i-hybridkrigforing - 2025-11-22

Både svensk och internationell lag står bakom kvinnors rätt att amma på offentlig plats. Ändå beskriver kvinnor hur de får ta emot påhopp och dömande blickar när de ammar utanför hemmet. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att samhället måste ge tydligare och uttalat stöd för offentlig amning - och välkomna amning oavsett plats. – Kvinnorna och barnen saknar tillgång till det offentliga rumm

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/att-amma-pa-offentlig-plats - 2025-11-22

Både svensk och internationell lag står bakom kvinnors rätt att amma på offentlig plats. Ändå beskriver kvinnor hur de får ta emot påhopp och dömande blickar när de ammar utanför hemmet. En ny studie från Lunds universitet visar att samhället måste ge tydligare och uttalat stöd för offentlig amning - och välkomna amning oavsett plats. – Kvinnorna och barnen saknar tillgång till det offentliga rumm

https://www.lu.se/artikel/att-amma-pa-offentlig-plats - 2025-11-22

Plantering av syntetiskt DNA, biometrisk utpressning av makthavare och genetisk hybridkrigföring. Det är några av de nya risker som har uppstått genom de forskningsframsteg som gjorts inom genetisk teknologi och kan utnyttjas i modern krigföring. Forskare vid Lunds universitet menar att vi behöver identifiera vilka de mest kritiska riskerna är och diskutera hur dessa kan förebyggas. Det internatio

https://www.lu.se/artikel/risker-nar-ny-genteknik-anvands-i-hybridkrigforing - 2025-11-22

This year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture will be given by Eero Castrén, Research Director at the Neuroscience Centre at the University of Helsinki. In his research on brain plasticity, he has discovered clues about which mechanisms in the brain are affected by antidepressants – and they could explain why these medicines work. Eero Castrén conducts research on brain plasticity and is primarily int

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/brain-plasticity-and-link-depression - 2025-11-21

Aiming for blue Beijing skies An increasingly ambitious environmental legislation has not reduced economic growth in the EU – indicating it will not do so in China either. This is good news for Chinese environmentalists, who have asked IIIEE researchers for evidence that supports their work for a greener China under bluer skies.Over the past few decades China has experienced a remarkable period of

https://www.iiiee.lu.se/article/meet-iiiee-researcher-philip-peck - 2025-11-22

Emil Ygland Rödström is defending his thesis on the 20th of November. His research is about clinical, genetical, and biochemical biomarkers for the prognosis of Parkinson’s disease patients. Here, he tells us more about the discoveries and his time as a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Neurogenetics group at MultiPark. What is your research about? My thesis work consists of two different parts. In th

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/phd-defence-interview-emil-ygland - 2025-11-21

Researchers at Lund University have discovered increased levels of a microRNA in type 2 diabetes, which has a negative effect on insulin secretion. Their experiments on human insulin producing cells in the pancreas also demonstrate that it is possible to increase the insulin secretion by reducing the levels of this microRNA. An important goal of the research is to develop new treatments for people

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/newly-discovered-drug-candidate-increases-insulin-secretion-type-2-diabetes - 2025-11-21

Entry phones can cause problems. For elderly people with a visual impairment or reduced mobility, getting into one’s flat can suddenly become a challenge. However, researchers can also experience problems. One person who knows is occupational therapist Elina Taurina, who has mapped environmental obstacles for elderly people in Latvia together with researchers from Lund University. “A number of tim

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/swedish-elderly-research-exported-latvia - 2025-11-21

Ethnologist Susanne Lundin’s research is ultimately about life and death and how people relate to the inevitable. What are people willing to do to delay the end briefly? Is there a limit beyond which someone ceases to be human? Susanne Lundin is a professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences and has conducted interdisciplinary research with medics for 30 years. Today, she is a sought-

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/her-research-concerns-our-deepest-fears - 2025-11-22

This autumn five master's students are doing their internship at the Sociology of Law Department in two different research projects. The Master's Programme in Sociology of Law, SASOL, is a multidisciplinary programme that is given here at the Sociology of Law Department in Lund. During the third semester (out of four) of the programme students have the opportunity to choose an internship course of

https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/article/interns-sociology-law-department-look-child-rights-and-working-life - 2025-11-21