Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector worldwide and 50% of all consumed fish is farmed. Swedish and European politicians alike have aquaculture development on their agenda for job creation and food production in the EU. Aquaculture is considered an environmentally hazardous activity and impacts on the environment and its
The Bikes vs Cars App. The app stores the user’s cycling trips and converts the distance into CO2 emissions and oil saved. It provides both an individual and a collective experience, tracking and recording the user’s own bike trips, and also sharing the data so that a global total number
In recent years, the results among secondary school students in OECD countries have fallen and in particular in Sweden. At the same time, the demand for homework help has increased and the market grows twofold every year. Homework requires today a teacher per 1-3 students, and therefore lacks scalability. Two
The project involves giving out a book of legends from Skåne that caters to children, adolescents and adults and inspires readers to jointly explore Skåne and discover both its geographical landscape as well as its history. Popular legends are folk tales, with no specific author, retold over the centuries. They
The non-profit association Thomanders Jul is celebrating its 5th Christmas anniversary and in conjunction with the university’s 350th anniversary is publishing a commemorative book. It will be a historical children’s book under the working title: When Christmas came to Lund. In just five years, a group of ordinary people living
The lung disease COPD, according to WHO, is the fourth most common cause of death worldwide, and its prevalence is increasing. Of the more than 200 million people suffering from COPD, three million die annually. The diagnostic method that is most specific for emphysema is computed tomography (CT scan) –
Breast cancer is according to WHO the second most common cancer in the world. Treatment is usually surgery in combination with chemotherapy and / or radiation and for the majority of patients followed by a 5-year anti-oestrogen therapy to prevent relapse. The project intends to develop a unique p-rod-like implant
The project received a grant from the Sten K. Johnsson Foundation in 2015. Since then, the following has happened: 1) a needle prototype has been developed with JOIN in Lund. 2) A study of the needle at the Centre of Bacteriology at Lund University has shown that: a) the needle
In order to achieve the vision of personalised cancer treatment, clinical pathology must develop better tools to be able to “predict in the tissue”, i.e., identify biological properties, known as biomarkers, in individual tumours, which are of significance to disease progression (prognosis) and the effect of different treatments (prediction). The
Several of the most deadly bacteria in the world alternate between causing symptomatic infections and acting as asymptomatic carriers, where they do not harm their host. One of these is the group A streptococci (GAS). GAS has a control system which switches off or on the virulence factors, that is,
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