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Hearing pioneer James Hudspeth dies aged 79

Added: 24 Aug 2025

A. James Hudspeth, the American neuroscientist credited with discovering how the inner ear translat…

Protein inhibitor offers potential to counter advance of brain tumours

Added: 24 Aug 2025

Drugs that prevent the body from clearing parts of brain cells damaged by cancer could help slow tu…

Study suggests older male endurance athletes have greater heart rhythm risk

Added: 21 Jul 2025

Older male endurance athletes may be at higher risk of abnormal heart rhythms, according to a study…

Mass collaboration produces benchmark recommendations for oxylipin studies

Added: 4 Jun 2025

An international collaboration involving 100 individuals from more than 70 academic institutions ha…

Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’

Added: 29 May 2025

Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…

Researchers get to the heart of organ development

Added: 18 May 2025

Advanced microscopy has enabled researchers to capture in real time the formation of an animal hear…

Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists

Added: 5 May 2025

Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…

Trials tackle if menstrual cycle contributes to women’s soccer injury

Added: 5 May 2025

Football governing body FIFA is funding Kingston University to research whether the menstrual cycle…

Royal Marsden claims first with online daily adaptive radiotherapy treatment

Added: 5 May 2025

London’s Royal Marsden Hospital is claiming a medical first for a radiotherapy planning system that…

PacBio to partner ‘first ever’ North African based dementia study

Added: 28 Apr 2025

Biotechnology company PacBio is to be a partner in a project to address the under representation of…

AI enables vets to take cues straight from the horse’s mouth

Added: 21 Apr 2025

Two Swedish research institutions have developed an AI platform that provides a 'digital voice' for…

Genetic study suggests possible means to identify drug resistant epilepsy

Added: 21 Apr 2025

Identifiying ‘genetic signatures’ could enable medical experts to determine which epilepsy sufferer…

Protein test 'for a fiver' may quadruple accuracy of heart risk prediction

Added: 12 Apr 2025

Basic £5 blood tests for a single protein could more accurately predict a person's risk of heart at…

New survey finds lower levels of vitamins and iodine in UK milk

Added: 11 Apr 2025

A new survey of cows’ milk on sale in UK supermarkets has found that it contains lower levels of vi…

Study reveals older exercisers are made of tougher stuff

Added: 6 Apr 2025

Older adults may be more physically resilient when exercising than is commonly supposed, according …

Further grant-aided purchase boosts AIME’s status as regional science leader

Added: 18 Mar 2025

Grant money of £1.5 million has enabled installation of a new mass spectrometer at Aston Institute …

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer

Added: 1 Mar 2025

Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope

Added: 9 Feb 2025

Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work

Added: 8 Feb 2025

Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…