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20 Dec 2024
Seeking for a 'shutdown button' for cancer
Nicholas Leigh came from the United States to Sweden and Lund University four years ago. In his research, he focuses on salamanders and how they can recreate body parts such as leg...
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18 Dec 2024
Questions and answers for the Lund University sugar study
An observational study shows that sweetened beverages have a greater negative impact on health than other sources of sugar.
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9 Dec 2024
A new explanation for dangerous atherosclerotic plaques in type 2 diabetes
People with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and dying prematurely due to atherosclerosis. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has n...
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5 Dec 2024
52 Million SEK goes to uncovering genetic drivers of Parkinson’s Disease
A team of international researchers led by Professor Johan Jakobsson at Lund University has secured a 52 million SEK grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initi...
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3 Dec 2024
Auto-regulating channels supply our cells with magnesium
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at Lund University, has uncovered how magnesium enters mitochondria.
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25 Nov 2024
Pandrug-resistant bacteria from the war in Ukraine are extremely pathogenic
It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analysed. The study, which attracted a lot of attention, showed that some of the bacteria types ...
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22 Nov 2024
Using light to create bioelectronics inside the body
Bioelectronics research and development of implants made of electrically conductive materials for disease treatment is advancing rapidly. However, bioelectronic treatment is not wi...
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18 Nov 2024
From science to start up: developing a gene therapy for a rare blood disorder
After 20 years of research on gene therapy and the rare blood disease, Diamond-Blackfan Anemia, DBA, researcher Johan Flygare had reached a point where he and his colleagues had do...
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6 Nov 2024
Foam cells in brain tumours
A research team at Lund University in Sweden has discovered a certain type of cells – foam cells – in patients with the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma. It has been shown how ...
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6 Nov 2024
ERC Synergy Grant awarded for the development of custom-made stem cell therapies
Malin Parmar, professor of cellular neuroscience, along with three researchers in Italy and Denmark, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant worth EUR 10 million. The fo...