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Pontus Nordenfelt and Wael Bahnan

17 Jan 2022 | News

Additional antibodies may protect against Covid

When we talk about antibodies against COVID-19, we tend to mean the so-called neutralising antibodies, that offer protection by blocking the virus from invading our cells. Now, a new study from Lund University in Sweden has revealed that non-neutralising antibodies may also be important in providing...

Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino (Photo: Robert Olsson and private)

11 Jan 2022 | News

Two LU researchers receive ERC Starting Grants

LU researchers Lea Fünfschilling and Carmelo D’Agostino have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant each, for their research on innovation and knowledge dynamics and automated vehicles respectively.

Pouya Movahed Rad

11 Jan 2022 | News

ECT more effective than ketamine in severe depression

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.

Small chip held with tweezers

10 Jan 2022 | News

Nanowire transistor with integrated memory to enable future supercomputers

For many years, a bottleneck in technological development has been how to get processors and memories to work faster together. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have presented a new solution integrating a memory cell with a processor, which enables much faster calculations, as they happe...

Many images from virtual G20 meeting in collage

20 Dec 2021 | News

How politicians project their status in virtual meetings

During the pandemic, physical summits were replaced by Zoom meetings, and global political leaders had to quickly adjust. How did they visually convey their status in this new world of digital diplomacy? A new study from Lund University in Sweden analysed over 50 photos from the first virtual G20 me...