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The Swedish Heart Lung Foundation has awarded 30 million to research projects at The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. These grants will support a variety of projects aimed at heart, vascular, and lung diseases.

Several highly coloured vegetables and fruits contain lutein. A study by researchers at LiU suggests that lutein has anti-inflammatory effects in patients with coronary artery disease.

Thymus may play a bigger role in the immune system of adults than was previously believed. With age, the glandular tissue in the thymus is replaced by fat, but the rate at which this happens is linked to sex, age and lifestyle factors.

Fourteen researchers at LiU have received grants totalling more than SEK 64 million. This is the result when the Swedish Research Council has awarded nearly SEK 1.1 billion in research grants for the medical and health sciences.

Eat your spinach in the form of a smoothie or juice – this is the best way to obtain the antioxidant lutein. High levels of lutein are found in dark green vegetables, and researchers at LiU have compared different ways of preparing fresh spinach in...

Different market products give very different results when it comes to liberating the antioxidant lutein from spinach in smoothies, according to a study from LiU. Of 14 common dairy and plant-based products, only four increased lutein liberation.