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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A drug has shown great promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study was led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, and is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Every year, about 800 children in the US are diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an aggressi

https://www.tcr.lu.se/article/promising-treatment-aggressive-childhood-cancer - 2026-07-15

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/fungi-and-bacteria-affects-future-climate-models - 2026-07-15

CMES researcher Nina Gren has been interviewed in Sydsvenskan about the Palestinian ambivalence towards war with Israel. The article "De flesta palestinier känner en djup ambivalens inför kriget" (English translation: "Most Palestinians feel a deep ambivalence about the war") was written by Albert Capuder and published in Sydsvenskan on 10 October, 2023. The article discusses Palestinian demonstra

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/most-palestinians-feel-deep-ambivalence-about-war - 2026-07-15

Enhancing cancer treatment by improving how therapeutic nanoparticles enter and act within cells is a promising direction. Christelle Prinz and her team have shown that photothermal therapy is more effective when the nanoparticles target the endoplasmic reticulum, which is achieved by performing nanostraw injections. Gold nanoparticles, especially a type called AuSHINs, show great promise for trea

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/injecting-nanoparticles-cancer-cells-enhances-treatment - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Vilket samband finns mellan mat och dryck med tillsatt socker och allvarlig hjärtsjukdom? Frågan är tidigare dåligt belyst i forskningen, men nu finns för första gången en mer omfattande studie från Lunds universitet som bidrar med ledtrådar. Fokus i den aktuella studien är på sackaros. Sackaros finns naturligt i fr

https://www.lu.se/artikel/nya-ron-om-sockrad-kost-och-allvarlig-hjartsjukdom - 2026-07-14

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Sociala och ekonomiska faktorer har lett till en dramatisk ökning av typ 2-diabetes och fetma över hela världen. I en artikel i den vetenskapliga tidskiften Science redogör Paul Franks professor vid Lunds universitet och Mark McCarthy professor vid universitetet i Oxford för vad vi vet om den verkliga orsaken och sa

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/typ-2-diabetes-och-fetma-vad-vet-vi-egentligen - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Avhandling: Övervikt och fetma fortsätter öka världen över, och har redan nått enorma proportioner. Med dessa tillstånd följer en rad sjukdomar, så som diabetes typ 2, hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar och en del cancersjukdomar. Idag är det globalt sett fler människor som dör av fetma och de sjukdomar som är relaterade till

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/grona-blad-viktnedgang-och-battre-insulinfrisattning - 2026-07-15

Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Mycket talar för att diabetes typ 2 inte är en sjukdom utan snarare ett flertal olika. I en av Europas största satsningar någonsin på diabetesforskning ska Lunds universitet fördjupa kunskapen kring diabetes typ 2. Satsningen, som bär namnet DIRECT, har en budget på 45 miljoner Euro (ca 400 miljoner kr) och kommer a

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/flera-sorters-typ-2-diabetes - 2026-07-15

https://www.lthin.lth.se/en/article/2025/road-mutual-exchange-knowledge-and-resilience - 2026-07-15

https://www.khm.lu.se/en/article/remembering-marion-von-osten - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For the first time, an international research team has succeeded in quantifying the toxic oligomers that break down the nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The discovery could be crucial in the hunt for new methods to limit the rapidly growing dementia disease. For the first time, an international resea

https://www.science.lu.se/article/new-discovery-facilitates-hunt-methods-limit-alzheimers-disease - 2026-07-15

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Infant mortality in Malawi is among the highest in the world. In a new EU-funded project, researchers from Lund, Cork and Oxford will develop new mobile technology to help health care staff in the country diagnose and treat serious diseases earlier and more effectively. In rural Malawi, aid organisations’ health care

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/mobile-will-save-childrens-lives-malawi - 2026-07-15

ACTRIS is the European Research Infrastructure for the observation of Aerosols, Clouds and Trace gases. On 10 March 2016, it was accepted as one of the EU’s strategically important research infrastructures by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, ESFRI. Six new areas have been defined as especially important for the European research society, one of which is atmospheric researc

https://www.merge.lu.se/article/swedish-researchers-build-new-european-infrastructure-atmospheric-research - 2026-07-15

CMES scholar Lina Eklund has been interviewed in an article about climate migration in Göteborgs-Posten. The article was written (in Swedish) and published in Göteborgs-Posten on 24 October 2022. Read the article in Swedish: "En miljard människor tvingas fly – på grund av klimatkrisen". Below are some excerpts from the article translated into English. In a new report, the United Nations and the Re

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/lina-eklund-interviewed-goteborgs-posten-about-climate-migration - 2026-07-15

Over the summer, three articles from Lund University garnered record numbers of readers. An article by Inês Bramão and Mikael Johansson from the Faculty of Social Sciences achieved 1.4 million reads, making it the most-read article from Lund University ever. The article, "The people we like can influence the connections our memory makes," was republished in a Greek journal, and it is these republi

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/record-breaking-summer-lund-university-conversation - 2026-07-16

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Melissa Franklin is a guest professor from Harvard University who compares her environment at Fysicum with the tv-series Friends and Seinfeld. Here she shares her views on similarities and differences between the universities. When a colleague on my 3000 person experiment at CERN whom I didn’t know, Torsten Akesson, e

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/crossing-border-scania - 2026-07-15

That life is not fair is hardly news. But that inequalities are at risk of increasing as we seek to improve the health of the population is perhaps unexpected. Health economics is a way of evaluating the potential health benefits of different interventions, setting them against the economic cost and their impact on society. Over two million people in Sweden are currently living with cardiovascular

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/unfair-life - 2026-07-16

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As a young man, when Mats Bohgard was working at a chemical factory during a leave from studies, he was urged to “Come back and fix the work environment to make it fit for human beings!”. Mats Bohgard. “Even though they said it half-jokingly, the truth is that they were experiencing every conceivable work environment

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/work-environment-champion - 2026-07-15

Veterinarian in charge Anders Forslid is retiring after 30 years working to improve the welfare of research animals at Lund University. He has witnessed a paradigm shift in animal health and animal experiments, and the way animal testing and humans’ obligations are viewed has changed. When Anders Forslid started out as a laboratory animal veterinarian at Lund University, he received a fairly cool

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/if-we-are-going-have-animal-testing-then-we-have-do-it-well - 2026-07-16

E-scooters have reshaped the way people move around cities and their impact on traffic safety has become a public concern. Andreas Bergh, associate professor in economics explains that his research has found a small increase in accidents following the introduction of e-scooters, but that the effect decreases over time. He also points out that just counting e-scooter accidents in isolation is the w

https://www.lusem.lu.se/article/lusem-news-comment-e-scooters-and-traffic-accidents - 2026-07-16