Good enough to eat?

Producing enough food to feed the world’s growing population is becoming a major concern. But making sure the food we grow is safe, nutritious and good enough to eat is also fraught with difficulty.

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Tags: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK, Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB), Dr Asgar Ali, global food security, Global Food Security Priority Group, Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, Malaysia (MOSTI), Technology and Innovation, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), the Ministry of Science

Vet ‘first port of call for advice’

Horse owners are most likely to use their vet to guide the choice of nutritional supplements they feed their animal, but also rely heavily on recommendations from other riders, a unique study has revealed.

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Tags: Associate Professor and European Specialist in Large Animal Surgery, Dr Sarah Freeman, School of Veterinary Sciences

Excuse me, but haven’t we met before?

Are you someone who recognises everyone you’ve ever met? Or maybe you struggle, even with familiar faces? It is already known that we are better at recognising faces from our own race but researchers have only recently questioned how we assimilate the information we use to recognise people.

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Tags: School of Psychology, UNMC

Leading the revolution

The world’s first centre of excellence specialising in pioneering research into the early detection of cancer was being officially launched at the University’s School of Graduate Entry Medicine on 26 January.

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Tags: Cancer, CEAC, Centre of Excellence for Autoimmunity in Cancer, EarlyCDT-Lung, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Impact: The Nottingham Campaign, International Agency for Research on Cancer, John Robertson, Oncimmune Ltd

Success in business ‘is learned’

Can you learn to be an entrepreneur? A new in-depth study offers an insight into how top business players teach themselves to become successful.

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Tags: Dr Thomas Wing Yan Man, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China’s (UNNC) business school

Life-saving test

Hundreds of lives could be saved each year, thanks to an online calculator that could help GPs identify women at risk of having ovarian cancer at a much earlier stage.

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Tags: Cancer Research UK, ClinRisk Ltd, Department of Health, National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI), National Cancer Action Team, ovarian cancer, QResearch®

Cancer screening: On course to cut deaths

The Bowel Cancer Screening Programme in England is on course to cut bowel cancer deaths by 16%, according to a study of the first 1m test results.

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Family firms ‘are more resilient’

Family businesses have been more resilient in meeting the economic challenges created by the current recession, a study has shown.

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Tags: Dr Ali Altanar of the Credit Management Research Centre, Nottingham University Business School

Parents urged to have say on findings

A website has been launched to help raise awareness of work being done in the region to tackle childhood obesity and to seek the views of parents and healthcare professionals.

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Life on Mars

Worms originating from a Bristol rubbish dump could hold the key to colonising space.

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Tags: Division of Clinical Physiology in the School of Graduate Entry Medicine, Dr Nathaniel Szewczyk