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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...
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4 Nov 2024
New knowledge about type 1 diabetes – the large-scale TEDDY study will soon be completed
In 2025, children within the TEDDY study will submit their final samples.The study has provided new knowledge about how type 1 diabetes develops.
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1 Nov 2024
Praised for research on diabetes and dementia
Diabetes researcher Joao Duarte specialices in studying what happens in the brain in diabetes. Now he will be awarded this year's Medeon stipend.
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24 Oct 2024
New precision medicine approach helps detect subgroups of people with obesity at high risk of diabetes and heart disease
Obesity is a common cause of diabetes, heart disease and early death, but risk differs greatly from one person to the next. In work led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden ...
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23 Oct 2024
”Success makes it difficult to quit”
A career in science was not on the map for Kári Stefánsson, who aspired to become a writer. But life took another road and the return to Iceland almost three decades ago marked the...
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17 Oct 2024
New method enables identification of mutations in sperm
A research study led from Lund University, have conducted a pilot study in which they examined sperm DNA and it’s similarity to mutations in children.
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14 Oct 2024
Defective sperm doubles the risk of preeclampsia
For the first time, researchers have linked specific frequent defects in sperm to risk of pregnancy complications and negative impacts on the health of the baby. The study from Lun...
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7 Oct 2024
He won the regional heat of the researcher Grand Prix – now heading for the national contest in Stockholm
By describing his research as a battle between good and evil and likening himself to a hacker who attacks cancer cells to make them kind, PhD student Luís Oliveira took home the wi...
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13 Sep 2024
Researchers reprogram tumor cells into cancer-fighting immune cells in living beings
Researchers at Lund University are developing a new type of gene therapy that reprograms cancer cells within tumors into immune cells that can help the immune system fight cancer. ...
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10 Sep 2024
No benefits from 24-hour compared with 15-hour oxygen therapy
There were no differences in quality of life, symptoms, hospital admissions or mortality between a group of patients with pulmonary disease and low oxygen levels in the blood that ...
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9 Sep 2024
Faster detection of dangerous infections
In an infection, there are tens of thousands of peptides that provide a wealth of information about which bacteria have caused the infection and how severe it is. A research team a...