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Sociologist Lisa Flower, biologist Øystein Opedal, economic historian Ingrid van Dijk and linguist Karolin Obert have received the prestigious grant from the EU. Their research focuses on video links in court cases, plant adaptation to pollinators, health inequalities over time, and language change in hunter-gatherer societies as they move around. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-caree

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-researchers-lund-university-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2026-07-01

Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the abnormal accumulation and spread of the tau protein in the brain. An international study can now show how tau spreads according to four distinct patterns that lead to different symptoms with different prognoses of the affected individuals. The study was published in Nature Medicine. “In contrast to how we have so far interpreted the spread of tau in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alzheimers-disease-composed-four-distinct-subtypes - 2026-07-01

You rush into the supermarket; your mother-in-law is coming for dinner. But which products end up in your shopping basket and why? Researchers have previously tracked eye movements to understand which products attract you in a shop. In order to get closer to the truth, they now want to use new computational models in which the brain’s cognitive processes also play a major role. As you stand in the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/what-happens-your-brain-when-you-take-decision-new-research-shows-way - 2026-07-01

Gabriel Börner preferred playing pinball to studying at upper secondary school and therefore failed to get into a medical programme. Today, he is a senior consultant in surgery at Helsingborg Hospital and a researcher at Lund University. He has invented a “sewing machine” to suture patient’s wounds after abdominal surgery. Although the journey there was longer than he could ever have imagined, he

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/needlework-surgery - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Harvard professor Nathan Nunn, creative economist, is the 2020 recipient of the Jan Söderberg Family Prize in Economics and Management. Professor Nunn will receive the Prize on SEK 1 million in Lund, Sweden, and give a lecture on his research on 25 March. Experimental economics and development economics are hot topics

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/prize-pioneering-knowledge-africas-development - 2026-07-01

Increasingly, industry is looking to recruit staff with doctoral degrees for research and development positions. This may involve hiring people with technical expertise in a specialist area and who also hold sufficient qualifications to independently run projects according to the company’s requirements. A newly graduated doctoral student who comes straight from academia may experience large cultur

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/industrial-doctoral-students-valuable-industry - 2026-07-01

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. IT IS HIGH TIME that we start thinking about how we define life, according to a group of Lund University researchers. An army of intelligent robots is growing in front of us, but also opportunities to alter people’s DNA, create super babies and, perhaps, to encounter life in space.“Human beings have always dreamed of

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/designer-babies-and-intelligent-robots-how-new-life-challenging-humankind - 2026-07-01

An increasing number of people want to help bees and other pollinators by growing flowers that are rich in pollen and nectar. But which flowers are the most beneficial? If the point is to aid threatened bee species and biodiversity, then a variety of native plants is the way to go. If you are a farmer, with large areas of insect-pollinated crops, it might be easiest to aim for a few species of flo

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/flowers-benefit-both-bees-and-biodiversity - 2026-07-01

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to professors Joel Mokyr at Northwestern University, Philippe Aghion at LSE, and Peter Howitt at Brown University. They deal with the theme of continuous economic growth. For Professor Mokyr’s part he has used historical sources to explain what has sustained economic growth over the last two hundred years. He emp

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/creative-destruction-gets-prize - 2026-07-02

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/target-election-invitation-public-lecture-campus-helsingborg - 2026-07-01

https://www.isk.lu.se/artikel/campus-helsingborg-bjuder-till-tva-oppna-forelasningar-om-botar-och-algoritmer-i-det-svenska-valet - 2026-07-01

https://www.intramed.lu.se/artikel/var-fakultet-i-almedalen-onsdag-266-nya-terapier-har-vi-rad-att-bota-sjukdomar - 2026-07-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Transplantationskirurger vid Akademiska sjukhuset har etablerat en behandling som gör det möjligt att transplantera bukspottkörtlar och njurar från donatorer som inte har samma blodgrupp som mottagaren. – Att inte behöver ta hänsyn till matchning av blodgrupper är en stor vinst. Vi ser stora möjligheter att i framti

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fler-svart-sjuka-kan-botas-med-transplantation - 2026-07-01

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/hur-kan-fetmakirurgi-sa-snabbt-bota-diabetes - 2026-07-01

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/video-sa-triggas-typ-1-diabetes-finns-det-hopp-om-bot - 2026-07-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Merparten av de typ 2 diabetiker som fetmaopereras tillfrisknar bara några dagar efter ingreppet, långt innan kroppsvikten minskar. Ingen vet vad det är som händer men nu har forskare på Lunds universitets Diabetescenter ett första delsvar. - Våra fynd visar på flera förändringar som en följd av operationen, ett så

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forsta-svaret-pa-fragan-varfor-fetmaoperation-botar-diabetes - 2026-07-01

https://www.lu.se/artikel/barn-med-posttraumatisk-stress-kan-botas-effektivt-pa-bara-nagra-timmar - 2026-07-02

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ar-typ-2-diabetes-en-tarmsjukdom-och-basta-boten-operation - 2026-07-01

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Transplantationer av insulinceller, sk ö-celler, från avlidna donatorer är en behandling för personer med svårkontrollerad typ 1 diabetes. Tillgången på celler är begränsad och behandlingen kräver livslång medicinering av immunhämmande läkemedel. Här berättar Ehab Rafael, transplantationskirurg vid Skånes universite

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/o-cellstransplantationer-lindring-men-ingen-bot - 2026-07-01

https://www.sam.lu.se/artikel/barn-med-posttraumatisk-stress-kan-botas-effektivt-pa-bara-nagra-timmar - 2026-07-01