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In this interview, Ebba Brink reflects on the specific set of sustainability challenges facing informal settlements in India, and how they can be addressed. She is part of the project BInUCom which focuses on how Indian planning and architecture schools can develop their curricula to better address the complex challenges of informality, environmental risks and social exclusion faced by the urban p

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/urban-dynamics-such-shortage-affordable-land-and-housing-force-urban-poor-settle-hazardous-marginal - 2025-12-19

Impaired insulin secretion is closely associated with type 2 diabetes, but the process is not yet fully understood. A new study by researchers at Lund University shows that the Piezo1 ion channel regulates insulin secretion, which means it may be an important target for new diabetes treatments. Type 2 diabetes often occurs because the pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce enough effective in

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-piezo1-ion-channel-plays-important-role-insulin-secretion - 2025-12-19

Impaired insulin secretion is closely associated with type 2 diabetes, but the process is not yet fully understood. A new study by researchers at Lund University shows that the Piezo1 ion channel regulates insulin secretion, which means it may be an important target for new diabetes treatments. Type 2 diabetes often occurs because the pancreatic beta cells are unable to produce enough effective in

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/study-shows-piezo1-ion-channel-plays-important-role-insulin-secretion - 2025-12-19

Nya e-resurserBirds of the World (BOW)Biologibiblioteket har startat en prenumeration på Birds of the World (BOW); Birds of the World är en databas med artbeskrivningar av världens fåglar. Varje beskrivning innehåller information om särskiljande egenskaper, spridning, systematik, beteende, ekologi, demografi, bevarande och prioriteringar för framtida forskning. Databasen kombinerar djupgående fors

https://www.lub.lu.se/internt/artikel/nyhetsbrev-september-e-media-och-vetenskaplig-kommunikation-0 - 2025-12-19

In patients with symptoms such as irregular heartbeats, dizziness, or fainting, or in individuals that physicians suspect may have atrial fibrillation, many days of ECGs may be required for diagnosis – “long-term ECG recordings”. These recordings must then undergo a time-consuming and human resource-intensive review to identify heart rhythm abnormalities. In a large international study, researcher

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ai-better-humans-analysing-long-term-ecg-recordings - 2025-12-19

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have compared the effects of intravenous ketamine treatment with ECT treatment in severe depression. The results support the view that ketamine is a possible treatment, but also show that ECT treatment helps more people. In recent years, ketamine has emerged as a new treatment for depression, after studies have shown it to be a fast-acting antidepressant. “

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/ect-more-effective-ketamine-severe-depression - 2025-12-19

The excitement has been palpable in recent weeks following the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Anne L’Huillier, a researcher at Lund. This is the first time a researcher at Lund University has received a Nobel Prize, and atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier is only the fifth woman ever to be awarded the prize in Physics. By now it is widely known where atomic physicist Anne L’Huillier was when

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/anne-lhuillier-received-lunds-first-nobel-prize - 2025-12-20

It has been a year since an extensive Research and Innovation Bill was introduced. The Ministry of Education, research funding bodies and higher education institutions are still busy converting it and its initiatives into action. Perhaps this is why the autumn’s budget bill now feels a little thin on ideas and forward-thinking in those parts relating to our sector. In addition, the Government has

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-budget-bill-turns-reform-focus-away-higher-education - 2025-12-20

On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a new report on how climate change is impacting nature and people worldwide, and on the necessity for adaptation. According to the researchers, more than three billion people live in environments that are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the same applies to many species. The researchers establish that thos

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/uns-climate-change-panel-world-must-act-now - 2025-12-20

Huntington disease is fatal inherited brain disorder, usually emerging during mid-life. Although there is currently no known cure, the Molecular Neurogenetics group at Lund Stem Cell Center aims to understand the defective cellular processes leading to the progression of this disease. Characterised by symptoms including impaired motor and cognitive function, Huntington disease is caused by the exp

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/autophagy-and-treatment-huntington-disease-timing-key - 2025-12-20

Lund University (Sweden), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Porto University (Portugal), Szeged University (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have decided to join forces to create a pilot project of a European University, an “Alliance for Global Health,” committed to higher education in global health and well-being challenges at the heart of European values. Better living togeth

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/lund-and-four-other-major-research-universities-create-european-alliance-global-health - 2025-12-19

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 several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-genetic-cause-type-hereditary-ataxia-sca4-long-unresolved-conundrum - 2025-12-19

Popular Science SummaryWe are all familiar with the idea that living organisms are made of atoms and molecules. But not everyone knows that one of those molecules that are crucial for our lives are proteins. And no, they aren’t just something we have to eat. Proteins are an essential molecule which form our cells, together with fat, sugars, and nucleic acids. Proteins are the workforce of the cell

https://www.multipark.lu.se/article/amyloid-oligomers-capturing-threat-between-disorder-and-order-phd-thesis-lei-ortigosa-pascual - 2025-12-19

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 several previously unsolved, enigmatic neurological disorders. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 was one of these, but now a research team in Lund, Sweden, have identified the gene that is responsible. Almost half a million

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-have-found-genetic-cause-type-hereditary-ataxia-sca4-long-unresolved-conundrum - 2025-12-19

The single market of the EU is often hailed as the number one success story of European integration, and it is one of the reasons why the EU is seen as a law-making machine. Single market laws are partly focused on competition law, which sets out to ban state aid and other interventionist practices in order to create a level playing field among the EU’s businesses. But when these businesses enter

https://www.cfe.lu.se/en/article/how-can-eu-fix-global-trade - 2025-12-19

Art and culture have the capacity to make us aware of our relationship to ourselves and others, our world and our time. Using existential sustainability as an umbrella term, we can investigate new angles and open the way for new collaborations, according to Anna Lyrevik, senior adviser to the Vice-Chancellor, who has broad experience of delivering cultural projects in various forms. “My mission is

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/art-and-culture-bring-us-existential-awareness - 2025-12-20

Two-year-old Arvid will soon undergo his third heart operation. This time, the procedure will be safer and quicker, due to a new simulation method that researchers have developed for children with heart disease. It is Monday afternoon in Ward 67 at Skåne University Hospital and in one of the rooms, two-year-old Arvid is having his heart checked. A cartoon is playing on the TV above the hospital be

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tragic-loss-led-research-project - 2025-12-20

Lund University is investing SEK 64 million in a graduate school focusing on societal challenges and the 2030 Agenda. Kristina Jönsson, associate professor in political science, will be its coordinator. “This is a unique opportunity to achieve something really new and exciting”, she says. The graduate school is funded from 2019 to 2023 with agency capital from the faculties. When fully developed,

https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sek-64-million-leading-graduate-school - 2025-12-19

Sociologist Lisa Flower, biologist Øystein Opedal, economic historian Ingrid van Dijk and linguist Karolin Obert have received the prestigious grant from the EU. Their research focuses on video links in court cases, plant adaptation to pollinators, health inequalities over time, and language change in hunter-gatherer societies as they move around. The ERC Starting Grant is intended for early-caree

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/four-researchers-lund-university-receive-erc-starting-grant - 2025-12-20

Diabetes researchers at Lund University have previously shown that people with diabetes can be stratified into five subgroups with differing disease progression. A new study by the same researchers provides increased evidence for the clinical relevance of the classification system. The researchers also present new findings of significant differences between subgroups in the development of complica

https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-research-classification-diabetes-identifies-high-risk-group - 2025-12-19