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Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed the first non-antibiotic drug to successfully treat tuberculosis in animals. ...

Scientists at The Universities of Manchester and Leeds have discovered that the time of day influences the way mice respond to steroids. ...

Two members of staff at The University of Manchester have been recognised for their outstanding impact on student outcomes and the teaching profession by being named as National Teaching Fellows. ...

A study by scientists at The University of Manchester and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has found a link between the humble beetroot and blood pressure regulation in pregnant women. ...

One of the world’s most spectacular frogs has been identified as a new species after 20 years of painstaking research at The University of Manchester. ...

Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the same yeast we use for bread and beer production. ...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have cast new light on a little understood group of worm infections, which collectively afflict 1 in 4 people, mainly children - in the developing the world. ...

Scientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science. ...

The World Health Organisation set a goal to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. The NHS recently announced that it will go one better than that: it will eliminate the disease in England by 2025. In theory, the goal is achievable, but there are still signi...

Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered that most people with osteoarthritis can be subdivided into two distinct disease groups, with implications for diagnosis and drug development. ...

An international team of scientists and doctors has identified a family of five new genetic diseases which are likely to affect more than 1 in 5000 children ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester have discovered how the severity of trauma to arterial blood vessels governs how the body repairs itself. ...

A team of researchers from the National Institutes of Health and University of Manchester have uncovered new insights into a rare genetic disease, with less than 500 cases of the disease on record, which devastates the lives of children. ...

New research presented today (Friday 8th December) at the British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting shows the human body clock significantly impacts on sample results used to diagnose and treat asthma when taken at different times of the day. This may ...

An international team of scientists and doctors has identified a new disease that results in low levels of a common protein found inside our cells. ...

A team of scientists have created a new generation of tiny remote controlled nanorobots which could one day allow doctors to diagnose disease and deliver drugs from within the human body. ...

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. ...

A new study has discovered how our body clocks cause wounds, such as cuts and burns, to heal approximately 60% faster if the injury happens during the day rather than at night. This could have implications for medical procedures such as surgery and p...

An international team of scientists has discovered the first evidence that a huge carnivorous dinosaur roamed southern Africa 200 million year ago. ...

A pod of spinner dolphins in the Red Sea. Alexander Vasenin/wikimedia, CC BY-SA Susanne Shultz, University of Manchester Humans are like no other species. We have constructed stratified states, colonised nearly every habitat on Earth and we...

New research carried out at The University of Manchester has identified a bacterium - normally present on the skin- which causes poor wound healing in certain conditions. ...

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...

A scientist from The University of Manchester has hit upon an innovative way to control greenflies which infest our gardens and farms. ...

An international team of scientists, including a physiologist from The University of Manchester, will head to the largest island in the world later this month to investigate the Greenland shark – believed to be the longest-lived vertebrate animal. ...

Immune cells which are reduced in number by obesity could be a new target to treat diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension that affect overweight people, according to a collaborative study between The University of Manchester, Lund Universi...

Geneticists from the Universities of Manchester and Bath are celebrating the discovery of the elusive ‘greenbeard gene’ that helps explain why organisms are more likely to cooperate with some individuals than others. ...

Scientists from Manchester and Bristol have successfully created a synthetic cellular communications system – which has successfully recognised signals involved in pain relief. ...

A study by Manchester and Stanford scientists into the effects on fish of a 2010 oil disaster could shed new light on how air pollution affects humans’ hearts. ...

Disabling a part of brain cells that acts as a tap to regulate the flow of proteins has been shown to cause neurodegeneration, a new study from The University of Manchester has found. ...

University of Manchester biologists have discovered that breast tissues have 24-hour body clocks, and that several hundred genes are regulated in a daily cycle. ...