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Megg Garcia-Ryde’s thesis sheds light on the early pathological processes in Alzheimer’s disease and the interplay between neurons and microglia as the disease evolves. October 10, she defends her thesis. Now, she gives her perspectives from a close collaboration between the experimental neuroinflammation laboratory and the experimental dementia research group and how she brings together the exper
Donald Trump’s background in professional wrestling paved the way for his political career. By using the wrestling concept “kayfabe” – the art of making staged events seem real – Trump embodies the message that politics was always fake, while masquerading as authentic. This has tapped into an already existing disillusionment with the American political system. It can also explain why playing the v
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/how-trump-turned-elections-wrestling-match - 2026-04-21
An important element in getting blood stem cells to multiply outside the body is to understand which of the approximately 20 000 genes in the human body control their growth. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied close to 15 000 of these genes alongside each other. The researchers have succeeded in identifying four key genes which, together, govern the growth and multiplication
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/quartet-genes-controls-growth-blood-stem-cells - 2026-04-21
There is a large carton of chicken eggs on the bench in Sofie Mohlin's laboratory. They have been delivered during the morning and soon they will be placed in the 37-degree heat of the incubator so that the embryo can develop. Already 42 hours after fertilization, researchers can begin their experiments to study how neuroblastoma develops. Sofie Mohlin is an Associate Professor in Molecular Physio
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/eggs-can-help-us-understand-neuroblastoma - 2026-04-21
The University has started a new initiative that involves inviting its new staff from far and wide to joint activities during the year. New international staff members and their families were recently welcomed to the new academic year at an event in the Main University Building. Specially invited staff members enjoyed a get-together and refreshments with music by Albin Rickman’s Trio and students
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-international-staff-members-were-welcomed-new-academic-year - 2026-04-22
Även om Sverige har kommit långt, finns det alltid mer att göra för att skapa ett mer inkluderande samhälle. Det stod klart när tillgänglighetsforskaren Mikiko Terashima från Dalhousie University, Kanada gästade en CASE Scientific Session vid Lunds universitet. Terashima leder forskningsenheten Planering och design för jämlikhet, inkludering och hälsa i samhället (PEACH). Hon forskar på metoder so
https://www.case.lu.se/artikel/de-minst-horda-ar-de-verkliga-tillganglighetsexperterna - 2026-04-21
New advanced therapies can alleviate or cure chronic diseases. But medical progress raises the question of how rights should be protected and balanced, according to Jessica Almqvist, professor in international law and human rights, who conducts research on gene therapies. With advanced therapies, doctors can treat or prevent serious diseases. Gene therapies are tailor-made and individualised. The
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/gene-therapies-raise-difficult-legal-and-ethical-questions - 2026-04-21
We spoke with Alex Vermeulen, Director of the ICOS ERIC Carbon Portal, about the latest World Meteorological Organization report, the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, for which Alex serves as editor. Published in October – in time to provide the latest data to the COP30 meeting – the report describes the largest year-on-year rise in CO₂ levels since records began in the 1950s. Alex shares his thoughts on
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Farshid Jalalvand has a PhD in infection biology and vaccine development, and he has appeared frequently in the media during the debate on the Covid-19 vaccine. “When you work, as I do, with vaccines and you understand how they work, it feels important to try to explain it so that people can take decisions based on so
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/it-everyones-responsibility-get-vaccinated - 2026-04-21
– We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS post-doctoral fellow Guy Jackson. He has co-authored a literature review on non-economic loss and damage which highlights the need for more research on intangible cultural heritage, and how it connects to our physical surroundings, as
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2026-04-21
How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei
https://www.soc.lu.se/en/article/other-side-story-how-children-immigrants-experience-life - 2026-04-21
How does migration and globalisation shape the lives of individuals in various countries and how does it affect the children of immigrants in terms of integration, identity, and cultural expressions? Do they themselves use the word integration? These questions occupy sociologist Dalia Abdelhady who is about to conclude a study of three populations in the US, in France and in Germany, based on thei
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/other-sides-story-how-immigrants-children-experience-life - 2026-04-21
De senaste åren har de digitala vårdalternativen för patienter med knä- och höftartros ökat kraftigt – inte minst på grund av pandemin. Men hittills har det inte gjorts några studier som har jämfört effekten av de digitala vårdinsatserna med de traditionellt fysiska. I en studie som publiceras i tidskriften JAMA Network Open, har forskare jämfört de två artrosskolorna. Cirka var fjärde person över
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/digital-och-fysisk-artrosskola-ger-samma-resultat - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Vinnova is investing SEK 500 million in collaboration on non-communicable diseases over the next ten years. A call for proposals for collaborative projects is currently open. “Researchers who collaborate with either the business sector or the health service, or both, have a chance of obtaining a grant”, says Peter Nor
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strategic-innovation-area-coordinated-lund - 2026-04-21
The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates SEK 12 million from the European Regional Development Fund to Lund Nano Lab (Myfab Lund). Over the next four years, the money will strengthen cooperation between academia and industry in the field of semiconductors, and lower the threshold to the lab for companies. Anneli Löfgren, deputy director of NanoLund, will be
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/semiconductor-ecosystem-be-strengthened - 2026-04-21
The annual report, which summarises the University’s activities for the previous year, has now been completed. It is produced every year and provides documentation for the Government and the Swedish National Audit Office. The 118-page report contains a comprehensive summation with figures and statements concerning tasks and attainment of goals. The annual report shows that good economic growth has
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/summing-2022 - 2026-04-22
On the first day of the COP28 climate change conference in Dubai, a formal decision was taken to establish a loss and damage fund to support developing countries to deal with loss and damage from climate change. A pragmatic success for climate justice, says sustainability professor Emily Boyd, who now hopes that Sweden will follow suit with promises of financial support. Emily Boyd, director and p
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/many-questions-remain-new-loss-and-damage-fund-formally-established-cop28 - 2026-04-21
Can a new neighbourhood be a spearhead for sustainability if it has a huge shopping mall at its heart? And to what extent can urban planning influence the way people live in an area? In her thesis, Agenda 2030 doctoral student Alva Zalar has examined Hyllie in southern Malmö from a norm-critical perspective that interweaves architecture and queer theory. In the early 2000s, the city of Malmö decid
https://www.agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se/article/new-thesis-sheds-light-hyllies-sustainable-urban-development - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The research quality evaluation, RQ20, is now in full swing. The evaluation-fatigue that project leaders Freddy Ståhlberg and Mats Benner expected to see among their university colleagues has not materialised. “We have encountered a strong engagement and interest!” The 200 or so external advisors for the 32 panels are
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/strong-engagement-rq20 - 2026-04-21
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Russia has its own right-wing populist movement: the Parental Movement. While the US equivalent is protesting stricter gun control, the Russians are raging against the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. “Western lifestyle is considered a major threat to Russian traditions and normal family life”, says social an
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/russian-parental-movement-counteracting-childrens-rights - 2026-04-21
