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2021
29
March
2021
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10:14
Europe/London
A collaboration between two Barcelona institutions and the Nanomedicine Lab at The University of Manchester - aimed at treating brain disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s Disease - has secured £12m in funding.
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2019
09
December
2019
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10:35
Europe/London
A new study reveals Italian-speaking children pick up some language rules faster than English-speakers.
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21
November
2019
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14:32
Europe/London
14 researchers from The University of Manchester are some of the most highly cited in their field, in a new list from the Web of Science Group released this week.
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2018
24
January
2018
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08:03
Europe/London
A brave new world of immune system therapies – harnessing the body’s own defences – could help treat all kinds of different illnesses, according to one of the UK’s leading immunologists.
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2017
17
November
2017
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08:53
Europe/London
A scientist and historian from The University of Manchester has unearthed a document which throws light on a long-forgotten controversy in scientific publishing from the 1960s.
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16
October
2017
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16:07
Europe/London
Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects – much like human societies. A major new study has linked the complexity of Cetacean culture and behavi...
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2016
20
December
2016
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17:00
Europe/London
A new study finds that unlike humans, Chimpanzees are entirely selfish creatures who act in their own interests, turning conceived wisdom on its head.
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06
September
2016
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10:00
Europe/London
Up to 59% of ‘pre-hospital’ deaths from injury could potentially be prevented if more people stepped in with some simple first aid, according to new research commissioned by the British Red Cross and conducted by the University of Manchester.
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01
September
2016
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23:00
Europe/London
For the first time, the precise way organs and tissue develop in early pregnancy has been mapped – providing new insight into how developmental disorders can occur during the crucial first two months of pregnancy.
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22
July
2016
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11:00
Europe/London
Lord David Willetts, the Executive Director of the Resolution Foundation, and Former Minister for Universities and Science is deliver this year's Fred Jevon's Science Policy Lecture on Monday 25 July on how government supports science and technology,...
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12
July
2016
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15:30
Europe/London
One of Dragon’s Den’s top success stories has been recognised by The University of Manchester for his work as a leading North West entrepreneur.
Imran Hakim started in business aged just 15, with a £2,000 loan from his father, but following his BB...
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12
July
2016
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11:13
Europe/London
A Manchester and Dundee collaboration has found out more about one of the most abundant biological substances on the planet.
Professor Simon Turner from The University of Manchester and Dr Piers Hemsley from the University of Dundee and James Hut...
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01
June
2016
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15:00
Europe/London
A new book developed by a University of Manchester expert could be a boost for Brits who suffer from poor confidence.
Davina Whitnall, a skills trainer, says the often hidden problem can cause misery at home and in the workplace for millions of pe...
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20
May
2016
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10:04
Europe/London
The first detailed study of a Stegosaurus skull shows that it had a stronger bite than its small peg-shaped teeth suggested. The Natural History Museum’s Stegosaurus specimen, ‘Sophie’, has been compared with two plant-eating dinosaurs with similar s...
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12
May
2016
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10:03
Europe/London
University scientists are celebrating their best ever annual community Open day which took place last weekend.
The team welcomed hundreds of people from across the city, keen to see where some of the country’s leading life scientists work.
High...
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24
March
2016
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14:06
Europe/London
A ground breaking University of Manchester project which allows Students, teachers and researchers in Myanmar (Burma) to access vital educational resources has been recognised.
Yin Min Tun, Research and Project Manager at the eTakketho project has...
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24
March
2016
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11:01
Europe/London
British allergy sufferers are to turn citizen scientists in a bid to decode the poorly understood world of seasonal allergies thanks to a free new app.
The app – called #BritainBreathing – a collaboration between the Royal Society of Biology, the ...
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14
March
2016
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16:00
Europe/London
AN HIV DRUG could stop one of the early changes in skin cancer cells that leads to them becoming resistant to treatment, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study published in Cancer Cell* today (Monday).
The researchers looked at melanoma ...
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03
March
2016
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13:45
Europe/London
A project at The University of Manchester to analyse 15,000 mouse studies - the largest of its kind ever undertaken - has revealed that about half of these studies failed to report the sex and age of the mice involved, despite these being recognised ...
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05
February
2016
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19:00
Europe/London
An international team of researchers has discovered how one of the body’s crucial building blocks allows human tissues to be so flexible.
A University of Manchester scientist working with Professor Tony Weiss and Dr Giselle Yeo at the University o...
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03
January
2016
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23:01
Europe/London
Four University of Manchester staff members have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list.
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2015
27
November
2015
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16:00
Europe/London
Discovery unlocks understanding of how cells form different tissues and move in diseases such as cancer
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21
October
2015
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15:00
Europe/London
Academics at The University of Manchester have dismissed the long-held argument that the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra was killed by a snake bite.
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14
October
2015
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09:10
Europe/London
Flies can make a buzz in schools
Researchers from The University of Manchester have developed a new way of teaching which could improve the way biology is taught at schools.
Professor Andreas Prokop and colleague Sanjai Patel say the fruit fly ...
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08
October
2015
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15:14
Europe/London
Researchers in Manchester have demonstrated for the first time the relative safety and effectiveness of treatment, eltrombopag, in children with persistent or chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), as part of an international duo of studies. ...
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