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20 Mar 2024
Best treatment for cardiac arrest – new international study will provide answers
The guidelines governing the treatment of sudden cardiac arrest exhibit variation across different nations, with treatment strategies often resting on a limited evidential foundati...
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19 Mar 2024
Making bone alive – ceramic material transforming into new bone tissue in osteoporotic patients
New research shows that it is possible to induce new bone formation around orthopaedic implants in osteoporotic patients. The study has been published in Acta Biomaterialia.
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14 Mar 2024
Surgical sutures coated with peptide reduce infections
Applying a peptide coating to sutures, capable of combating both bacteria and inflammation, has been identified as an effective strategy to mitigate wound complications following s...
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13 Mar 2024
Omega-3 can alleviate symptoms in depressed patients with inflammation
How might low-grade inflammation be linked to depression? New research findings show that depression can be alleviated when patients with mild elevations of inflammatory markers in...
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6 Mar 2024
New research unlocking the secrets in our blood of early death and disease risk
Being able to predict diseases before they develop has become somewhat akin to the search for the Holy Grail. The difference is that research has a greater chance of success in fin...
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4 Mar 2024
Göran Gustafsson Prize for the fight against antibiotic resistance
Vasili Hauryliuk, Senior Lecturer in Medical Biochemistry at Lund University, is awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Molecular Biology with the motivation "for pioneering studies...
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27 Feb 2024
New coordinators for strategic research area in diabetes
Diabetes researchers Allan Vaag and Lena Eliasson are the new coordinators of Lund University Diabetes Centre and the strategic research area Excellence of Diabetes Research in Swe...
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20 Feb 2024
Tune H Pers receives award for outstanding research on obesity and diabetes
Do you think that people with obesity have themselves to blame? Tune H Pers tries to dispel persistent myths through his research on the brain's role in the development of obesity....
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15 Feb 2024
The protein that protects insulin-producing cells
Much research on diabetes focuses on understanding what happens when the insulin-producing cells are destroyed. Researchers at Lund University have instead chosen to investigate wh...
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7 Feb 2024
Blocks aquaporins, thereby inhibiting cancer growth
Aquaporins are proteins that regulate the flow of water in and out of cells. These proteins have been found to play a role in both cancer and type 2 diabetes. Now, a research group...