Foto: iStock/andresr Runt 80 procent av dem som har Downs syndrom utvecklar Alzheimers sjukdom, ofta redan i 40-50-årsåldern. Nu visar en svensk-amerikansk studie, ledd från Lunds universitet, att ett enkelt blodprov med stor säkerhet kan upptäcka Alzheimers sjukdom hos personer med Downs syndrom. Fynden är viktiga av flera skäl, inte minst möjligheten att ställa korrekt diagnos utan komplicerade

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/blodprov-upptacker-alzheimers-hos-personer-med-downs-syndrom - 2025-08-23

Foto: iStock/Paul Campbell Ett samarbete mellan lundaforskarna Johan Jakobsson och Malin Parmar har lett till en ny metod för att studera åldersrelaterade hjärnsjukdomar. Forskarna har tagit avstamp i den neurodegenerativa sjukdomen Huntingtons. Studien är publicerad i den vetenskapliga tidskriften Brain. Inte sällan står medicinsk grundforskning inför utmaningen att utveckla sjukdomsmodeller som 

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-forskningsmodell-ska-ge-svar-om-huntingtons-sjukdom - 2025-08-23

Medicinsk forskning i laboratorium. Arkivbild. I november 2021 bildades en privat stiftelse som syftar till att främja vetenskaplig forskning avseende pankreascancer, gastroenterologi, och smärtlindring vid Lunds universitet. Stiftelsen förvaltas av Lunds universitet och totalt sett kommer 40 miljoner att tillföras. Tidigare i vår delades de första anslagen ut - drygt tre miljoner kronor ska stött

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/mangmiljondonation-till-medicinska-fakulteten-vid-lunds-universitet - 2025-08-23

Ny bröstcancerforskning från Lunds universitet stärker bilden av att kroppskonstitution (BMI) hos patienten samverkar med den omgivande vävnaden som tumören växer i, och kan ha betydelse för prognosen. iStock/33karen33. Miljön som bröstcancer uppstår i – både patientens kroppsform, tumörens storlek och cancerspecifika proteiner – samverkar och har betydelse för prognosen. Det visar en studie som n

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/tumorens-miljo-kan-paverka-prognos-vid-brostcancer - 2025-08-23

Barn är särskilt känsliga för luftföroreningar då de andas in mer luft per kilo kroppsmassa än vuxna och deras immunförsvar, luftvägar- och hjärt- och kärlsystem fortfarande är under utveckling. iStock/Nadezhda1906. Barn är särskilt känsliga för luftföroreningar. En ny studie visar att förskolebarn i trafiktäta storstadsområden är ute betydligt kortare tid av sin dag på förskolan men riskerar samt

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-rapport-stadsluftens-halsobelastning-pa-barn - 2025-08-23

COVID Symptom Study Sverige avslutar datainsamlingen. Nu ska forskare vid Lunds och Uppsla universitet fokusera på det insamlade forskningsunderlaget. I mitten av juli meddelade forskarteamet bakom COVID Symptom Study Sverige att de avslutar datainsamlingen. De riktade ett stort tack till alla som bidragit med viktiga data, data som bidragit till forskningsrapporter och möjligheten att följa smitt

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/over-20-miljoner-dagsrapporter-till-covid-symptom-study-sverige - 2025-08-23

Sandra Lindstedt, forskare och thoraxkirurgi, har genomfört studien tillsammans med bland andra Snejana Hyllén, överläkare inom thoraxanestesi, och Leif Pierre, chefsperfusionist på thoraxavdelning operation. Foto: SUS. En stor andel av de lungor som doneras varje år kan inte användas för transplantation. Forskare vid Skånes universitetssjukhus och Lunds universitet har i en studie på djur nått re

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-behandling-kan-ge-tillgang-till-fler-donerade-lungor-och-farre-komplikationer-efter - 2025-08-23

Anders Håkansson, professor i beroendemedicin. Foto: Åsa Hansdotter. Att upptäcka tidiga tecken på spelproblem för att kunna identifiera dem som löper risk att utveckla ett beroende och utveckling av preventiva insatser för dem i riskgruppen – det är två exempel på den forskning som under snart ett decennium letts av professor Anders Håkansson. Forskningen har möjliggjorts genom initiativ finansie

https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/stor-satsning-pa-forskning-om-spelberoende - 2025-08-23

Maria Jassinskaja, Keiki Nagaharu, and Joanna Watral researchers at Lund University, and the Lund Stem Cell Center, receive funding from Barncancerfonden in Sweden to find new answers about how infant and childhood leukemia develops. Each year, around 350 children in Sweden are diagnosed with cancer. Thanks to progress in research and treatment, six out of seven children today survive. But unlike

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/three-researchers-receive-barncancerfonden-funding-investigate-causes-childhood-leukemia - 2025-08-23

Stem cell researcher Paul Bourgine has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his project CiThOss – Cellular immunoTHERapy modelling by exploitation of humanized OSSicles. Photo Kenneth Ruona. Paul Bourgine, research group leader at Lund University's Lund Stem Cell Center, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his project CiThOss – Cellular immunoTHERapy modelling by exploitat

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/paul-bourgine-awarded-erc-proof-concept-grant - 2025-08-23

Welcome to Lund Stem Cell Center's new homepage! Here you will find our research groups, information on our core facilities, research school, latest news and events, job vacancies and more. 

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/welcome-new-homepage-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23

Principal Investigators Daniella Ottosson and Charlotta Böiers have been accepted to join Lund Stem Cell Center.A warm welcome to the Ottosson and Böiers groups. To learn more about their research, the following Stem Cell Talks have been scheduled: Wednesday 25th September: Principal Investigator Daniella Ottosson. Details here.Wednesday 23rd October: Principal Investigator Charlotta Böiers. Detai

https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/welcome-two-new-principal-investigators-lund-stem-cell-center - 2025-08-23

Middle Eastern research news from Lund University Very exciting to start up as new CMES director! Karin Aggestam: "It has been some hectic, but very exciting weeks as new director for CMES. I am deeply impressed by the large number of scholars at Lund University who conduct cutting-edge research on the Middle East.   The House on Finngatan 16 serves as a wonderful hub for interdisciplinary researc

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/newsletter-middle-east-forum-newsletter-october - 2025-08-23

The workshop is called: Unpacking ‘the Opposition’ in undemocratic regimes: The Role, Transformation and Challenges of the Oppositional Actors in Turkey and beyond The purpose of this workshop is to initiate a debate on the opposition in Turkey and contribute to the theorization of the role, transformation, mobilization strategies and different forms of the opposition in undemocratic regimes.  The

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-pinar-dinc-presenting-fake-news-understanding-conflict-and-forest-fire-nexus-through-media - 2025-08-23

Middle East Forum Newsletter #15 Message from the director: New CMES board in place  While CMES 2.0 is still in the making some important steps have been taken in the last few weeks. We are pleased to announce that a new interdisciplinary board has been formed.  Four faculties are represented from Lund University, which include dean and prof Christofer Edling (chair), prof Martin Dribe, Economic H

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/middle-east-forum-newsletter-15 - 2025-08-23

Exploring the broader field of environmental dimensions of conflict – in the Middle East region and beyond As part of the Climate Stress in Syria-research project, there was a closed interactive online workshop on October 14th to discuss the nexus around drought, vulnerability and conflict. This post describes the workshop that was held online on October 14th, 2020, as the first workshop in the Cl

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/exploring-broader-field-environmental-dimensions-conflict-middle-east-region-and-beyond - 2025-08-23

Cover: Nineveh Press Ten non-Armenians from ten European countries write about their interest in and experiences of Armenia. In moving and, at times, funny essays they depict dramatic events, lasting friendships, political struggles. We hear about lavash and brandy, genocide and revival, Yerevan and small God-forgotten villages in Hayastan and Artsakh.  The authors describe how their interest in A

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-svante-lundgren-one-editors-new-book-armenia-mon-amour-ten-europeans-speak - 2025-08-23

CMES Spyros Sofos was awarded a PhD in Regional and Cross-cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen after the examination of his thesis entitled “The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy” on Monday 7 December. The Meanings of the People in Turkish Politics: A Genealogy This thesis is intended to make a contribution to ongoing efforts to enhance our understanding of the “p

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/new-phd-thesis-meanings-people-turkish-politics-genealogy - 2025-08-23

Project title: AI assisted radar rainfall algorithms for advanced engineering decision support systems. Photo: Joshua Lanzarini on Unsplash Local weather often is not what news reports for cities and counties. As transient, local, and intense as a cloudburst, rainfall can be highly variable, impractical to measure for usual rain-gauge networks. Frequent extreme events with climate change call for

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/cmes-hasan-hosseini-has-got-pre-seed-funding-2021-lu-innovation - 2025-08-23

Photo: Mor Shani on Unsplash The article has been published in Sustainability and is available online. Co-writers are Khaldoon A. Mourad and Hasan Hosseini, also from CMES. Farmers know much more than we think, and they are keen to improve their knowledge in order to improve their farms and increase their income. On the other hand, decision-makers, organizations, and researchers are increasing the

https://www.cmes.lu.se/article/role-citizen-science-sustainable-agriculture-new-article-cmes-helen-avery - 2025-08-23