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New PG studentship and improvements in animal welfare for stroke research
December 17 2014 Stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of […]
Appears in Issue 5
Tags: adult disability, animal welfare, Dr Rebecca Trueman, Dr Trueman, Dr Vicky Robinson, National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, new drug therapies, rehabilitative strategies, research, School of Life Sciences, stroke, Studentships
Bacteria resistant materials – £2m to get the ‘inside’ story
July 29 2014 Researchers who discovered a group of new materials capable of repelling bacteria have […]
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Tags: Bacteria resistant materials, Camstent Ltd, indwelling medical devices, materials science, microbiology, Nature Biotechnology, polymers, Professor Morgan Alexander, Professor Paul Williams, School of Life Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award
Research offers new hope for treatment of rare genetic disease
July 23 2014 New research by experts at The University of Nottingham could offer new […]
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Tags: Dr Lucy Fairclough, Familial Hibernian Fever, fever, German Cancer Research Centre, immunology, inflammation, Mansoura University, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, rare genetic disease, School of Life Sciences, The European Journal of Immunology, The Quarterly Journal of Medicine, therapy, TNF Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome, TRAPS
Pinpointing the damage alcohol does to the brain
New research has identified, for the first time, the structural damage at a molecular level that […]
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Tags: alcohol abuse, brain damage, Dr Wayne Carter, molecular level, PLOS one, Post-mortem brain tissue, prefrontal cortex, School of Life Sciences, School of Medicine, structural damage
Selflessness can be attractive to a potential mate
Altruistic or selfless behaviour is an attractive trait in a potential sexual partner, according to new […]
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Tags: behaviour, Centre for Biomolecular Sciences, natural selection, psychology, School of Life Sciences, social science
Unscrambling the genetics of the chicken’s ‘blue’ egg
They are the latest foodie fashion and look set to become big business in the baking […]
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Tags: cells, DNA, food, genetics, School of Biology, School of Life Sciences, virus