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19 Oct 2023
Eric K. Fernström Nordic Prize 2023 awarded to cancer researcher
Cancer researcher Harald Stenmark, professor at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, is the recipient of this year’s prize. Harald Stenmark is being recognised for ...
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18 Oct 2023
From enemy to friend – 33 million for reprogramming cancer cells
An international research project led from Lund University is now awarded 33 million SEK by the European Innovation Council, EIC Pathfinder. The idea behind the project is to use d...
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13 Oct 2023
Filipe Pereira awarded the Eric K. Fernström Prize for Young Researchers
Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. He receiv...
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11 Oct 2023
This is how your blood vessels tolerate high blood pressure
A research group at Lund University has studied how a molecular sensor located in the blood vessel wall, controls how the vessel compensates for high blood pressure. As we age, the...
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5 Oct 2023
New report: opportunities and challenges for precision diabetes medicine
An international consensus report on diabetes identifies the potential for diabetes screening, better classification of type 2 diabetes, and biomarkers that can predict cardiovascu...
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29 Sep 2023
A new bioinfomatics pipeline solves a 50-year-old blood group puzzle
Currently, a lot is known about which genes are responsible for our individual blood groups, however not much is understood about how and why the levels of the blood group molecule...
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19 Sep 2023
New blood marker can identify Parkinsonian diseases
Is it possible that a single biomarker can detect all types of diseases related to dopamine deficiency in the brain? Yes, that's what a research group in Lund is discovering. "We...
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18 Sep 2023
Kick-off for SciLifeLab Lund
On September 28, the official launch of SciLifeLab Lund will take place in Forum Medicum. Lund is one of the four new sites that were established in 2022. The sites in Gothenburg, ...
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24 Aug 2023
Breast cancer study altered guidelines in Sweden
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well-known breast cancer genes associated with a significantly increased risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. However, there are an additional eleven g...
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24 Aug 2023
EU funding for killer cells that fight cancer
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 pr...
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17 Aug 2023
Positive metabolic effects of gastric bypass disappear quickly
A new study from Lund University in Sweden raises questions about the efficacy of bariatric operations involving gastric bypass. The results show that the biggest metabolic changes...
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16 Aug 2023
How psychedelic drugs affect a rat’s brain
Researchers at Lund University have developed a technique for simultaneously measuring electrical signals from 128 areas of the brain in awake rats. They have then used the informa...
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9 Aug 2023
Link between selenium deficiency and heart failure
A research study at Lund University shows that there is an association between selenium deficiency and an increased risk of developing heart failure. The risk is twice as high for ...
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3 Aug 2023
AI-supported mammography screening is found to be safe
Mammography screening supported by artificial intelligence (AI) is a safe alternative to today’s conventional double reading by radiologists and can reduce heavy workloads for doct...
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3 Aug 2023
Electrotherapy without surgery
Researchers at Lund and Gothenburg Universities have successfully developed temporary, organic electrodes that can be seamlessly integrated into biological systems. The method, now...
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27 Jul 2023
Gut and mouth bacteria give researchers new clues about atherosclerosis
What is the link between atherosclerosis and gut and mouth bacteria? Researchers behind a large new study have found several new connections. In the long term, this knowledge can b...
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24 Jul 2023
Alarming antibiotic resistance discovered in war-torn Ukraine
Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals. The...
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24 Jul 2023
Lewy body disease can be detected before symptoms
Lewy body disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease. A research group from Lund University has now shown that the disease can be detecte...
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20 Jun 2023
Kicking kidney cancer
What happens when you mix a group of tumor biology researchers with software developers and AI researchers? Hopefully, with the help of AI, they can connect a multitude of data tha...
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20 Jun 2023
New discoveries about where atherosclerotic plaques rupture can lead to preventive treatments
A common cause of myocardial infarction and stroke is the rupture of atherosclerotic plaques. The exact location of plaque ruptures has previously been unknown, but now researchers...