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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. When it comes to economic and financial decision-making, do you know what is best for you? Or is it wise to delegate decisions to someone else? Researchers at Lund University in Sweden and other institutions have demonstrated that letting someone else be in charge of your personal finances can help you avoid costly mi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/why-someone-else-should-make-your-financial-decisions - 2026-05-13

A new experimental and clinical study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the sleep hormone melatonin impairs insulin secretion in people with a common gene variant. “This could explain why the risk of type 2 diabetes is greater among, for instance, overnight workers or people with sleeping disorders”, says Professor Hindrik Mulder who is responsible for the study. Melatonin is a naturally o

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-findings-explain-connection-between-melatonin-and-type-2-diabetes - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. If silence is golden, speech is silver – and singing the worst. Singing doesn’t need to be silenced, however, but at the moment the wisest thing is to sing with social distancing in place. The advice comes from aerosol researchers at Lund University in Sweden. They have studied the amount of particles we actually emit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/could-singing-spread-covid-19 - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. For those who are diagnosed and have begun treatment for HIV, it is standard practice to regularly monitor viral load in the blood to assess response to treatment. A study of people living with HIV in Ethiopia shows that poverty and labour mobility are linked to high viral load despite treatment, indicating treatment

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/hiv-treatment-ethiopia-socioeconomic-challenge - 2026-05-13

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 - 2026-05-13

On this page, we have compiled the most commonly asked questions about the note-taking assignment. General questions about the assignmentWhat applies in general for those who have received an assignment as a note-taker. Does the note-taking assignment also apply to notes taken in connection with your own studies? No, note-taking support applies only to lectures and seminars. Note-taking support do

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/current-students/get-involved-student-life/become-note-taker/faqs-about-note-taking - 2026-05-13

The number of patients with osteoarthritis has increased dramatically since the 1950s. Along with diabetes, the illness is now one of the fastest-growing endemic diseases in the world. Andrea Dell’Isola, an associate professor at the Department of Clinical Sciences at Lund University in Sweden, investigating the connection between osteoarthritis and metabolic diseases in a new research project. Ar

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/we-are-getting-older-and-heavier-osteoarthritis-increasing - 2026-05-13

A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, reveals that melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can in some cases be driven by mitochondrial processes, which can be effectively targeted using existing drugs. In preclinical laboratory experiments with melanoma cell cultures, researchers successfully eliminated cancer cells by using antibiotics and inhibitors of mitochondrial

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/aggressive-skin-cancer-driven-mitochondrial-processes-existing-drugs-offer-promising-treatment-path - 2026-05-13

Lund University and Tetra Pak Processing are joining forces to build one of the largest precision fermentation research facilities in the Nordics. Microorganisms will be selected, fine-tuned and trained to convert inedible waste into food and materials for a growing population. The term “precision fermentation” is being used increasingly by biotechnology and food experts. As resources dwindle and

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/plant-waste-be-transformed-food-new-lab-lund - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have for the first time convincingly shown where in the brain the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s occur. The discovery could potentially become significant to future Alzheimer’s research while contributing to improved diagnostics. In Alzheimer’s, the initial changes in the brain

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-research-shows-where-brain-earliest-signs-alzheimers-occur - 2026-05-13

Your Alumni Network membership gives you access to a wide range of benefits – from exclusive offers and invites to events. Offers and discountsAs a member of the Alumni Network, you have access to a variety of offers – including discounts on events, cultural experiences and subscriptions. Below you will find a list of discounts available to our alumni members.To access the discount codes, you must

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/alumni/membership-benefits-alumni - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As part of a three-day state visit to Sweden, His Excellency Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, came to Lund University where he gave a lecture to a packed auditorium. The aim of the official visit was to further promote the long-standing and excellent relations between Sweden and Italy. The three-day official vis

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/italian-president-sergio-mattarella-visits-lund-university - 2026-05-13

As certain tumor cells are able to conceal themselves in the body, it often means that patients with aggressive cancers experience a recurrence of the cancer after treatment. By programming genetically modified killer immune cells to seek and destroy the hiding tumor cells and tumor stem cells, it is hoped that we can develop more effective treatment options. An international research project, wit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/eu-funding-killer-cells-fight-cancer - 2026-05-13

Researchers have succeeded in converting human skin cells into blood stem cells in an international collaboration project. “This is a first step on the way to generating fully functional blood stem cells in a petri dish which, in the future, could be transplanted into patients with blood diseases”, says Filipe Pereira, the researcher from Lund University in Sweden who led the study now published i

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/mechanism-turning-skin-cells-blood-stem-cells-uncovered - 2026-05-13

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) initiative, in partnership with the Michael J Fox Foundation, to investigate how mobile genetic elements —commonly referred to as "jumping genes"—contribute to neuroinflammation and the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Jum

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/52-million-sek-towards-uncovering-genetic-drivers-parkinsons-disease - 2026-05-13

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/erc-grants-research-diabetes-and-immunotherapy - 2026-05-13

Lao Saal has a mission; to make it possible to – just by testing a blood sample – reveal, not only if you have cancer, but also which therapies may be most effective, and how well is the cancer actually responding to treatment. His idea is to trace the genetic material that escapes from tumours and into the blood circulation. “It’s a great feeling when you can go the whole way from having an idea

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/service-cancer-patients - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tropical rainforests have long been considered the Earth’s lungs, sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thereby slowing down the increasing greenhouse effect and associated human-made climate change. Scientists in a global research project now show that the vast extensions of semi-arid l

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/savannahs-slow-climate-change - 2026-05-13

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A new study from Lund University in Sweden increases knowledge of how boundaries and barriers are maintained between different species in the animal world. According to theory, crosses between two species, known as hybrids, may not survive encounters with natural predators to the same degree as their parents. Now, res

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/predators-preserve-existing-animal-species - 2026-05-13

We conduct pioneering neuroscientific research. Through experimental, clinical and point-of-care research, our researchers are making discoveries that are being used to treat various brain disorders. Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are examples of neurodegenerative disorders in which large groups of nerve cells in the brain are destroyed, leading to reduced motor and cognitive abilities. Current medic

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/research-and-innovation/focus-areas/strategic-research-areas/neuroscience - 2026-05-13