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18 Apr 2024
New treatment of atherosclerosis may reduce the risk of a heart attack
A treatment that has reduced plaque development in animals has now been tested in people with psoriasis. Jan Nilsson at Lund University is one of the researchers behind the clinica...
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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...
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26 Jan 2024
New study: Biomarkers that improve prediction of cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes
An international team of researchers has identified 13 biomarkers that significantly improve the ability to accurately predict cardiovascular disease risk in people with type 2 dia...
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10 Jan 2024
A step closer to treatment for severe bacterial infections and sepsis
The development of a new treatment strategy for bacterial infections and sepsis is being led by researchers at Lund University. In a study the researchers demonstrate how they, by ...
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18 Dec 2023
A five-minute test indicate ADHD
Through a simple, inexpensive five-minute test, one can obtain an initial indication of whether a child has ADHD or not. This is demonstrated by a research team at Lund University,...
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18 Dec 2023
Exploring Genomic Dark Matter: Christopher Douse Awarded $1.2M Grant by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Christopher Douse, a new group leader at the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University, has been awarded the Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award by The Chan Zuckerberg Initiati...
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5 Dec 2023
Researchers have found the genetic cause for a type of hereditary ataxia, SCA4 – for long an unresolved conundrum
Intensive efforts are being made in medical research to discover the genomic causes of undiagnosed hereditary diseases. Persistent work and new technology are providing answers to ...
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30 Nov 2023
New study: Lost brain function restored after stroke
Researchers have succeeded in restoring lost brain function in mouse models of stroke using small molecules that in the future could potentially be developed into a stroke therapy....
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24 Nov 2023
Children with breath-holding spells undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions
Breath-holding spells are common in young children and are benign. Yet children often undergo unnecessary diagnostic interventions when seeking medical care. This is because there ...
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7 Nov 2023
The cancer researcher and the intelligence expert
David Gisselsson Nord and Tony Ingesson both love spy novels and have a nerdy interest in history. Their shared curiosity resulted in an interdisciplinary collaboration about how i...
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6 Nov 2023
Research on inherited type 2 diabetes is awarded
How do heritability and the fetal environment affect the risk for the child to develop type 2 diabetes? This is a question that Rashmi Prasad studies in her research projects that ...