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Study links inbreeding and pregnancy loss in horses

Added: 7 Apr 2024

Mid and late term pregnancy loss among thoroughbred horses appears to correlate significantly with …

Nottingham uni spin-out secures UKRI £1 million for gene therapy tech

Added: 6 Sep 2023

University of Nottingham spin-outTherageniX and collaborator the University of Nottingham, have bee…

Can science tackle ACL threat to women players’ World Cup success?

Added: 20 Aug 2023

The knee injury England midfielder Keira Walsh narrowly avoided at the World Cup has been identifie…

Sponge enables robot to crack the egg challenge

Added: 11 Jun 2023

Robots have demonstrated their efficiency over the human and manual approach in many areas but stil…

Wearable tech enhances potential for friends-based mental health support

Added: 15 Apr 2023

Wearable tech that shares data between small circles of close friends and relations could provide a…

Enhanced computer modelling offers improved training for trainee surgeons

Added: 12 Feb 2023

Modelling improvements have enabled a research team at Bristol University to refine the use of virt…

UK research teams share £2.5 million kidney funding boost

Added: 3 Feb 2023

Fourteen projects focused on kidney disease treatment are to share one of the most sizeable funding…

Science reveals why Roy Keane's like a Rottweiler

Added: 1 Feb 2023

What does Roy Keane have in common with a Rottweiler? Physiologically, quite a lot – or rather a sh…

Northern Ireland launches joined up diagnostics programme 

Added: 11 Dec 2022

Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care service will combine millions of digital patient images i…

Birmingham Uni institute’s Arlt to be new MRC London Institute Director

Added: 27 Nov 2022

Award-winning clinical endocrinologist Professor Wiebke Arlt will be the new Director of the Medica…

Data explosion threatens Catch 22 for pathogen research

Added: 20 Nov 2022

Science’s efforts to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is being hampered by th…

Kent Uni lab aims to tackle footballer cardiac threat

Added: 20 Nov 2022

The University of Kent claims it has achieved a first for UK labs by directly imaging at photomicro…

Database of 4 million race starts enables major study of Thoroughbred sudden death

Added: 31 Oct 2022

The first study ever made on a large scale of sudden death in Thoroughbred race horses has suggeste…

Nikon Small World hands awards first place to photogenic gecko image

Added: 16 Oct 2022

The three millimetre hand of a lizard embryo captured on camera in incredible detail has won first …

Quantum, click and evolution provide Nobel Science-winning ingredients 

Added: 6 Oct 2022

Quantum physics, click chemistry and evolutionary breakthroughs were the dominant themes for this y…

Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row

Added: 30 Sep 2022

Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win a…

Blood and guts: new link uncovered between the gut microbiome and blood groups

Added: 17 Jan 2022

Researchers have been studying how the body’s mucus layer encourages the optimal balance of microbe…

Olympus Image of the Year Award 2021

Added: 4 Nov 2021

Olympus has just launched its third Image of the Year contest and is accepting entries. Each year, …

Trans-disciplinary approaches reveal important disease transmission dynamics

Added: 4 Oct 2021

New research reveals the complex multi-host-species and multi-parasite-species disease transmission…

Think Deep, See Deeper - Free virtual organoid conference

Added: 20 Sep 2021

Announcing a three-day virtual event highlighting new organoid imaging technologies, supporting eme…