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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Today, transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) is the leading cause of death following a blood transfusion. So far, it has not been treatable, but a researcher at Lund University in Sweden, Rick Kapur, has now discovered that an anti-inflammatory drug cures the disease in mice. For his achievement, he is awarded
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/breakthrough-dangerous-blood-transfusion-related-disease - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Ten-day-old baby birds are able to maintain their regular body temperature despite nest box temperatures of 50C° or above. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now show that nestlings pay a high price for regulating their body temperature: they grow less. Therefore, the recommendation when putting up a nest bo
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/avoid-south-facing-birdhouses-nestlings-sake - 2026-05-27
For students who have received an admission offer If you have just received admission in your 'Notification of Results' via your www.universityadmissions.se account, make sure to follow any further instructions to secure your place in the programme. To secure your study placea) If you applied in an international autumn application round (with admission results in March/April), you reply to your ad
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made a key discovery about the internal magnetic compass of birds. Biologists have identified a single protein without which birds probably would not be able to orient themselves using the Earth’s magnetic field. The receptors that sense the Earth’s magnetic field are prob
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-birds-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Many pollinating insects benefit from a small-scale agricultural landscape with pastures, meadows and other unploughed environments. In landscapes dominated by arable land, they lack both food and nesting places. Sown flower strips can increase the availability of food for pollinating insects, and are therefore assume
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sowing-strips-flowering-plants-has-limited-effect-pollination - 2026-05-27
Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function – and defective regulation of protein production is common in certain types of aggressive human blood cancers. Now, a research team at Lund University in Sweden has uncovered a completely new mechanism that controls how proteins are produced to direct stem cell function. “Our research is po
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-vital-keeping-blood-stem-cells-functional-uncovered - 2026-05-27
Professor and family physician Jan Sundquist at the Center for Primary Health Care Research at Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in the 2017 call for applications. ERC Advanced Grant (ERC AdG) is awarded to world-leading researchers in support of excellent and innovative research. Professor Jan Sundquist conducts research on common
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/jan-sundquist-lund-university-awarded-erc-advanced-grant - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In a unique study, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have mapped the origins of migratory birds. They used the results to investigate and discover major differences in the immune systems of sedentary and migratory birds. The researchers conclude that migratory species benefit from leaving tropical areas when it
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/birds-migrate-away-diseases - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden believe they have found a method that in the future could help people suffering from epilepsy so severe that all current treatment is ineffective. “In mice studies, we succeeded in reducing seizure activity by intervening in an area of the brain that is not the focus of the epi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hope-new-treatment-severe-epilepsy - 2026-05-27
In 2017, the European Research Council (ERC) adopted a new approach to making research accessible to a broader audience – creating cartoons. Malin Parmar, a professor of cellular neuroscience at Lund University and recipient of an ERC grant, is one of the Swedish researchers whose research formed the basis for an ERCcOMICS cartoon. The last episode in a series of ten has now been published. A Cell
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/final-episode-erccomics-series-cells-life - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. New research from Lund University in Sweden shows that inflammatory, unstable atherosclerotic plaque has a metabolism that differs from that of stable plaque – and is similar to that of cancer cells. Future research will therefore investigate whether cancer drugs could potentially be used to treat cardiovascular disea
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå are to become test cities in a new national sharing economy programme. “The cities of the future are facing major challenges. Sweden shall be a leader when it comes to developing the solutions that a sharing economy entails”, says Kes McCormick at Lund University. The programme –
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-swedish-cities-become-sharing-economy-test-pilots - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The European Union will ban the world’s most widely used insecticides from all fields due to the serious danger they pose to bees. The ban on neonicotinoids, approved by member nations today, is expected to come into force by the end of 2018 and will mean these insecticides can only be used in closed greenhouses.This
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-agrees-ban-use-neonicotinoids - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. How are insects responding to rapid climate change? Damselflies are evolving rapidly as they expand their range in response to a warming climate, according to new research led by Macquarie University researchers in Sydney. Damselflies are evolving rapidly as they expand their range in response to a warming climate, ac
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/are-damselflies-distress - 2026-05-27
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The most comprehensive star catalogue in the history of astronomy has been released, mapping out an impressive 1.7 billion stars. The catalogue is based on observations made by the European satellite Gaia, and contains the exact distances, luminosity, temperatures and colours of millions of stars in the Milky Way. Ast
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/most-detailed-star-catalogue-ever-released - 2026-05-27