Publicerad 16 april 2008 En ny stor kartläggning av riskgener för typ 2 diabetes har avslöjat ett överraskande samband. Den nyupptäckta riskvarianten för diabetes, JAZF1, är sedan tidigare känd för att påverka risken för prostatacancer. JAZF1 är det andra exemplet där samma gener har betydelse för de båda helt olika sjukdomarna. JAZF1-varianten som kopplas till diabetes ligger på samma gen som en

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetesgen-ocksa-viktig-vid-prostatacancer - 2025-04-03

Publicerad 21 december 2018 Nordiska Medicinpriset 2018 avseende forskning om diabetes tilldelas forskarna Juleen R. Zierath, Karolinska Institutet och Köpenhamns universitet och Patrik Rorsman, Göteborgs universitet. Juleen Zierath och Patrik Rorsman Foto: Karolinska institutet och Göteborgs universitet Nordiska medicinpriset, som utdelas av Stiftelsen för Nordiska Medicinpriset i samarbete med F

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/forskning-om-diabetes-belonas-med-nordiska-medicinpriset-2018 - 2025-04-03

Publicerad 30 april 2008 LUDC-forskaren Forouzan Glans har jämfört 379 typ 2 diabetiker från Sverige och 71 från Mellanöstern (Libanon, Irak, Iran, Syrien och Turkiet) som alla bor i Malmö. Jämförelsen visade på flera viktiga skillnader.Tidigare insjuknandeI genomsnitt hade invandrarna från Mellanöstern insjuknat tolv år tidigare i livet, vid 43 årsålder jämfört med de svenskfödda som insjuknade v

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/allvarligare-diabetes-hos-invandrare - 2025-04-03

Publicerad 6 maj 2008 En ny genetisk riskvariant för fetma har upptäckts. Bärarna av mutationen har mer bukfetma, väger mer och riskerar tidigare diabetessymtom. Mest uttalad är genvariantens effekt på barn mellan fyra och sju år. Bland de 90 000 individer som ingick i den stora kartläggningen fanns nästan 6 000 barn. När effekten av riskvarianten utvärderades fann forskarna att barnens viktökning

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/fetmagen-som-slar-hardast-mot-barn-identifierad - 2025-04-03

Publicerad 12 maj 2008 Typ 2 diabetes är mer än tre gånger vanligare bland icke-europeiska invandrare än bland svenskfödda i åldrarna 35 till 64 år enligt en en kartläggning från Centrum för Allmänmedicin i Stockholm. Undersökningen som bygger på en genomgång av samtliga patientjournaler vid fyra vårdcentraler i Stockholm bekräftar resultaten från flera andra kartläggningar. Resultaten visar att d

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/diabetes-vanligare-bland-invandrare - 2025-04-03

Publicerad 16 maj 2008 Kanadensiska forskare har upptäckt att personer med en speciell genvariant konsumerar avsevärt mer socker än andra. Den undersökta genen GLUT2 är sedan tidigare känd för att delta i utsöndringen av insulin från betacellerna men också att den är aktiv i de regioner i hjärnan som har med födointag att göra.Kopplingen mellan en speciell variant i genen och individens tycke för

https://www.diabetesportalen.lu.se/artikel/genmutation-okar-sockersuget - 2025-04-03

Published 3 March 2022 The sculpture (Photo: Johan Joelsson) Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Fish lizards, or ichthyosaurs, were a very successfu

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-reconstruct-ancient-fish-lizard - 2025-04-03

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 3 March 2022 The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults have difficulties navigating the fast flow of information in society today. Photo: iStockphoto. What are opinions, what are facts and what are outright lies? The latest PISA assessment clearly shows that children and young adults hav

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-and-performers-teaching-children-question-fake-news - 2025-04-03

By marianne [dot] loor [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Marianne Loor) - published 9 March 2022 Martin Adell, Technology Platform Manager at Tetra Pak and Axel Knutsson, Materials Specialist at Alfa Laval at the MAXPEEM beamline at MAX IV synchrotron. Photo: Filip Lenrick. Nanotechnology and nanoscience offer a key to the development of materials as well as new knowledge about different material proper

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/unique-collaboration-model-sustainable-production-industry - 2025-04-03

Published 10 March 2022 To the left: Petri dishes for cell cultures in the lab. To the right: Cells from the cell line the researchers used in the study. Photo: Massimo De Marinis and Yang de Marinis. A new study from Lund University in Sweden on how the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine affects human liver cells under experimental conditions, has been viewed more than 800,000 times in just over a

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/qa-covid-19-vaccine-study-gains-attention - 2025-04-03

Published 10 March 2022 Tova Höjdestrand (Photo: Kennet Ruona) Vladimir Putin is driven by the old nationalistic theory about the western world’s conspiracy against Russia states Tova Höjdestrand, senior lecturer in Social Anthropology and a researcher whose areas of interest include Russia and nationalism. According to her, Russian conservatives have driven a radical conspiracy theory since the 1

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nationalistic-conspiracy-theory-drives-putin - 2025-04-03

Published 11 March 2022 Jessica Almqvist Any war crimes and accusations of genocide could be investigated by two different courts, both in The Hague. Jessica Almqvist, professor at the Department of Law, analyses what this involves. “There are not many who would dispute the unlawfulness of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”, says Jessica Almqvist. Some days ago, Ukraine held Russia accountable for havi

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/war-criminals-held-accountable-hague - 2025-04-03

Published 11 March 2022 Anamaria Dutceac Segesten (Photo: Diego Monsivais) The media in Russia and Ukraine live different lives. The media in Ukraine is quite free, whereas Russia lies at the bottom of international comparisons of media freedom, says Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, senior lecturer in European Studies at the Centre for Languages and Literature and associate professor of Strategic Commun

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/media-propaganda-contributes-russians-world-view - 2025-04-03

Published 11 March 2022 Chernobyl (Ivan Tykhyi/Mostphotos) The fighting at Chernobyl has caused an increase in radioactive radiation levels. Aleh Cherp, a professor at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), has studied energy security and Chernobyl. He thinks that the sanctions could lead to significant changes in the types of energy used in Europe. During the

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/sanctions-could-lead-more-wind-and-solar-power - 2025-04-03

Published 11 March 2022 Paid industrial work from home was common in the past – and now. Around 60 million people around the world are currently working as industrial homeworkers, such as contract sewing jobs. Photo: Västmanland County Museum and Istock In many ways, Swedish industrialisation began in the home. Women spun, wove and sewed clothes for payment in between their daily agricultural task

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/womens-work-home-then-and-now - 2025-04-03

Published 16 March 2022 Photo: iStock/isbjorn Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have studied whether severe perineal tears – known as sphincter injuries – are reduced if the primary midwife has assistance of a colleague during the final stage of labour. The study included a total of more than 4 000 first-time mothers. The results are published in The Lancet. There is currently a lack of e

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/reduction-severe-perineal-tearing-when-two-midwives-are-present-during-childbirth - 2025-04-03

Published 17 March 2022 Black swift (Photo: Zak Pohlen) An international research team led by Lund University in Sweden has managed to study the flight behaviour of the mysterious black swift. They found, among other things, that the black swift rises to extreme heights during a full moon, seemingly catching insects in the moonlight. And, during a lunar eclipse, the birds simultaneously lost altit

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/black-swifts-descended-rapidly-during-lunar-eclipse - 2025-04-03

Published 18 March 2022 Photo: Mostphotos/MALIK SHAHROZ Brain cells that control the behaviour of insects, extreme gene expression in Italian sparrows and how radiotherapy alters the microenvironment in aggressive brain tumors. Three researchers at Lund University have been awarded five-year grants from the European Research Council. Alexander Pietras, Stanley Heinze, Anna Runemark. (Photo: Åsa Ha

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/three-lund-researchers-receive-erc-consolidator-grants - 2025-04-03

Published 23 March 2022 Illustration of a white dwarf ( Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, and G. Bacon (STScI) White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. These interstellar remnants have historically been difficult to study. However, a recent study from Lund University in Sweden reveals new information about the movement patterns of these puzz

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/researchers-map-movement-white-dwarfs-milky-way - 2025-04-03

By bodil [dot] malmstrom [at] fsi [dot] lu [dot] se (Bodil Malmström) - published 24 March 2022 Talks on the importance of culture for Lund University are underway for the new Cultural Council. Photo: Bodil Malmström. Art and culture help us to understand society and ourselves. Lund University, with its artistic and cultural knowledge formation, has a key role to play in this. A new Cultural Counc

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-cultural-council-stimulates-cultural-dialogue - 2025-04-03