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29 Dec 2025
Machine learning drives drug repurposing for neuroblastoma
Using machine learning and a large volume of data on genes and existing drugs, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have identified a combination of statins and phenothiazines ...
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29 Dec 2025
Historically high food prices made us eat less fruit and vegetables
During 2022-2023, food prices in Sweden rose by 25 per cent. But it wasn't just household budgets that were hit hard by the price increases.
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22 Dec 2025
Capturing the moment a cell shuts the door on free radicals
For the first time, researchers have been able to show how a cell closes the door to free radicals – small oxygen molecules that are sometimes needed, but that can also damage our ...
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22 Dec 2025
The development of Science Village remains important to the University
The Board of the Faculty of Science has decided, given current conditions, to reject stage two of Science Village, while the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) has approved it. The Unive...
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19 Dec 2025
Danish Queen named as Honorary Fellow
Lund University will appoint Queen Margrethe of Denmark as an Honorary Fellow at the University’s annual academic ceremony in January.
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18 Dec 2025
Elegant solution for measuring ultrashort laser pulses discovered
Ultrashort laser pulses - that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second -have transformed fundamental science, engineering and medicine. Despite this, their ultrasho...
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17 Dec 2025
How to reduce the risk of lymphedema
Lymphedema after head and neck cancer is considerably more common than previously assumed and can persist long after cancer treatment has finished. Researchers at Lund University i...
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17 Dec 2025
Heavy menstruation common among teenage girls – questionnaire reveals risk of iron deficiency
More than half of teenage girls experienced heavy bleeding and 40 per cent had an iron deficiency. The research, led from Lund University in Sweden, also shows that young teenage g...
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17 Dec 2025
The university – a thousand-year-old institution that must defend its freedom
The institution of the university as we know it today emerged during the Middle Ages and has survived shifts in forms of government and economic systems, wars and periods of unrest...
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