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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…

Stick-on monitor offers cheap and precise warning system for critical conditions, say researchers

Added: 16 Dec 2024

A novel breathing monitor created by university and commercial partners is capable of providing a l…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

LLMs’ neuroscience predictions leave the experts trailing

Added: 1 Dec 2024

They’ve long since proved their effectiveness in information retrieval. Now large language models h…