Published 4 July 2019 Almost 300,000 people worldwide develop malignant melanoma each year. The disease is the most serious form of skin cancer and the number of cases reported annually is increasing, making skin cancer one of Sweden’s most common forms of cancer. A research team at Lund University in Sweden has studied a protein that regulates a gene which is linked to metastasis of malignant mel

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/protein-linked-aggressive-skin-cancer - 2025-06-13

Published 23 August 2019 The first evidence was recently presented demonstrating how the immune system can be controlled by directly reprogramming connective tissue cells into immune cells. The discovery provides the opportunity to develop an entirely new strategy for targeted immunotherapy against cancer. Filipe Pereira, research team leader and Molecular Medicine Fellow at the Wallenberg Centre

https://www.lucc.lu.se/article/research-project-develop-innovative-strategy-cancer-therapy - 2025-06-13

Published 7 October 2024 Astronomdagarna is a conference that gathers astronomers from across Sweden. It was held in Lund during October 2-4, 2024, with over 120 people attending.  The national conference Astronomdagarna is held every other year, with different universities taking turns on hosting the conference.  Back in 2022 the Astronomdagarna conference was held in Gothenburg.  Last time the c

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/astronomdagarna-2024 - 2025-06-13

By Anna [dot] Arnadottir [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna S. Arnadottir) - published 3 May 2023 In a recent paper, Nicholas Borsato, along with collaborators Jens Hoeijmakers, Bibiana Prinoth, Brian Thorsbro, and Rebecca Forsberg, provides insightful research on the complex atmospheric composition of the exoplanet KELT-9b. The team captured the exoplanet's spectra during transit, revealing numer

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/terbium-among-heavy-elements-discovered-atmosphere-exoplanet-kelt-9b - 2025-06-13

By anna [dot] arnadottir [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna S. Arnadottir) - published 26 April 2023 The European Space Agency Buissness Incubator Center (ESA BIC) hosted a meet-and-greet event at Ideon on April 25th.  Local professionals got to know more about ESA BIC and about a few of the ongoing space projects in Lund. This was well received by the people attending the event, and rumor has it

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/meet-and-greet-esa-bic - 2025-06-13

By anna [dot] arnadottir [at] fysik [dot] lu [dot] se (Anna S. Arnadottir) - published 27 April 2023 Image credit: Bibiana Prinoth Astronomers invited members of the public to look at the spring skies through the teaching telescopes. There are a number of both historical and modern telescopes at Lund Observatory.  Usually these are used for teaching purposes but every now and then the astronomers

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/stargazing - 2025-06-13

Published 4 May 2023   There is so much more to space than just rocket science. So said Deborah Lygonis, CEO Friendbase AB and Investor Relations, Innovatum, at a national hybrid lunch meeting titled ”The Future of the Space Industry”, which was jointly organised by ESA BIC and Women In Space Sweden (WISS) on May the fourth. She went on to explain how the space industry loosly divides into ’Upstre

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/future-space-industry - 2025-06-13

Published 30 May 2023  Several members of the Lund Observatory network gathered in Lundmarkssalen today to listen to Göran Östlins from Stockholm University give a seminar titled: "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".SELTIC is a consortium developing instruments, such as MOSAIC and ANDES, for ESOs ELT - which is currently under construction and scheduled for first light in 2028.This

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/swedish-engagement-elt-instrumentation-development - 2025-06-13

Published 11 August 2023 The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory. Attending this year's Space Research School were twenty intelligent, motivated and space-interested high school students from across Sweden.   During their 10 days in Lund the group of high school students attended several lect

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/rfs-2023 - 2025-06-13

Published 28 September 2023 Prof. Joe Liske from Hamburg University, Germany, visited the Lund Observatory network on September 28th 2023 and gave a talk titled "Cosmological Conundrums". This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/cosmological-conundrums - 2025-06-13

Published 9 November 2023 Prof. Stephen Mojzsis from the Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) in Budapest, Hungary, visited the Lund Observatory Network and gave a talk titled "Galactic chemical evolution expressed in rocky exoplanet geodynamics" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/galactic-chemical-evolution-expressed-rocky-exoplanet-geodynamics - 2025-06-13

Published 7 December 2023 Dr. Chiara Paleari from the Department of Geology gave a Lund Observatory Seminar titled "The search for extreme solar particle storms in polar ice cores" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series.  

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/search-extreme-solar-particle-storms-polar-ice-cores - 2025-06-13

Published 15 February 2024 Assistant professor Ása Skúladóttir from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy, gave a seminar titled "Digging into dwarf galaxies" This seminar is a part of the Lund Observatory Seminar series. 

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/article/digging-dwarf-galaxies - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 25 mars 2010 Fler än 92 miljoner vuxna i Kina har diabetes och ytterligare 150 miljoner är på väg att insjukna. De alarmerande siffrorna gör att prognoserna för antalet diabetiker i världen måste räknas om. Ännu en gång. Med jämna mellanrum publicerar Internationella Diabetesfederationen (IDF) prognoser över hur snabbt den globala diabetesepidemin kommer att växa. Kurvorna har stadigt p

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/peking-varldens-huvudstad-diabetes - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 26 mars 2010 Anders Rosengren, läkare på Skånes Universitetssjukhus och forskare på Lunds Universitets Diabetescenter i Malmö, har fått sex och en halv miljon kronor från Novo Nordisk Fondens Excellensprojekt. - Det betyder oerhört mycket. Jag kan starta en egen forskargrupp och driva forskningsarbetet i högre fart, säger Anders Rosengren.Det projekt han presenterade och, som i hård kon

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/stora-pengar-kartlaggning-av-sambandet-stress-och-diabetes - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 30 oktober 2010 Blodsockerkontrollen både förbättrades och stabiliserades när diabetessjuka möss behandlades med hormonet leptin istället för med insulin. Forskarna bakom upptäckten hoppas att detsamma gäller för människor. - Insulinbehandling är för många såväl otillräcklig för en bra blodsockerkontroll som betungande med kraftiga sockersvängningar och symtom. Gäller våra resultat ocks

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/leptin-kanske-battre-insulin - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 7 april 2010 Straffskatt på socker och samtidigt skattelättnader på frukt och grönsaker. Det skulle bli ett effektivt vapen mot fetma, diabetes, hjärt- kärlsjukdomar och cancer, menar fem tunga kostdebattörer i artikel i Dagens Nyheter. De fem – Calude Marcus, Stephan Rössner, Lennart Levi, André Persson och Thomas Hedlund – är kända forskare och/eller kostdebattörer som i ett försök at

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/sot-skattevaxling-mot-overvikt-och-fetma - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 18 april 2010 Alla som har fått diagnosen diabetes före sex månaders ålder bör testa sig. En del av dem behöver inte insulin. De klarar sig lika bra eller till och med bättre med tabletter, kanske helt utan medicinering. Nyföddhetsdiabetes är ovanligt, hur ovanligt är det ingen som riktigt vet.I den svenska undersökningen Bättre Diagnostik av Diabetes (BDD), där i stort sett alla under

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/flera-skulle-kunna-slippa-insulinsprutorna - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 29 oktober 2020 I somras kom den nya läroboken i Diabetes, utgiven av Studentlitteratur, som är skriven av 47 experter inom respektive område. Det är första övergripande boken på många år. Svensk Förening för Diabetologi tog initiativ till boken och Mona Landin-Olsson fick uppdraget som redaktör.

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/boknyhet-svensk-konsensus-diabetesvarden - 2025-06-13

Publicerad 30 oktober 2020 Pressmeddelande från Örebro universitet 201027: En tablett, som sänker blodsocker och ges till patienter med typ 2-diabetes, kan även skydda njuren vid typ 1-diabetes. Det visar en ny studie publicerad i Lancet. – Detta kan bli stort och göra att många ändrar behandlingen. Njursvikt är ett stort problem och orsakar både lidande och stora kostnader, säger Johan Jendle, pr

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-visar-att-tablett-kan-skydda-njuren-vid-typ-1-diabetes - 2025-06-13