University of Manchester - Archive (disease)
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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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2020
05
October
2020
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12:28
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has announced today a groundbreaking gene therapy partnership to ease the lifelong suffering of people with Hunter syndrome.
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30
April
2020
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10:30
Europe/London
World-leading Manchester biotech researchers are working towards developing a test for COVID-19 that could be used at home like a domestic pregnancy test.
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27
April
2020
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10:00
Europe/London
New research has revealed new insights into common asthma aerosol treatments to aid the drug’s future improvements which could benefit hundreds of millions of global sufferers.
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07
April
2020
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10:11
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is repurposing specialised equipment across its campus to help produce safety equipment for NHS workers battling COVID-19 in an attempt to help reduce the critical demand across the region.
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01
April
2020
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14:07
Europe/London
Users of a new health and wellbeing app are contributing to a publicly-available heat map of people with COVID-19 symptoms, providing a national picture of the outbreak and its spread over time.
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29
January
2020
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19:01
Europe/London
New antiviral materials made from sugar have been developed to destroy viruses on contact and may help in the fight against viral outbreaks.
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2019
29
October
2019
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14:47
Europe/London
Manchester researchers have contributed towards the discovery of a genetic brain disease which can cause paraplegia and epilepsy in sufferers.
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18
July
2019
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19:00
Europe/London
A team from The University of Manchester have engineered a common gut bacterium to produce a new class of antibiotics by using robotics.
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14
February
2019
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21:00
Europe/London
Nearly seventy years after myxomatosis decimated the rabbit populations of Australia, Britain and France, a new study reveals how the species has evolved genetic resistance to the disease through natural selection.
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12
February
2019
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10:30
Europe/London
The National Graphene Institute (NGI) at The University of Manchester has signed an 18-month research project to develop graphene water filtration systems with LifeSaver®, a UK-based manufacturer of portable filtration systems.
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2018
22
February
2018
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09:00
Europe/London
A major new collaborative project to develop a Zika virus vaccine that is suitable for use in pregnancy has been launched.
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19
February
2018
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14:38
Europe/London
Two years on from the peak of the Zika epidemic, the disease continues to have a tragic impact on people’s lives. In Brazil, more than 3,000 children are suffering from problems with their growth and development. Many more, mostly from the poorer nor...
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12
February
2018
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11:00
Europe/London
A study of over 20 thousand Twitter posts has revealed that less serious side-effects of steroids worry patients the most.
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15
January
2018
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15:00
Europe/London
A team at The University of Manchester have found that in a minority of patients they studied, the standard treatment for asthma - oral steroids - was associated with increased levels of the treatable mould Aspergillus in the lung.
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10
January
2018
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15:00
Europe/London
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.
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2017
18
December
2017
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09:00
Europe/London
Community screening for osteoporosis could prevent more than a quarter of hip fractures in older women – according to new research.
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12
December
2017
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11:40
Europe/London
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.
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12
December
2017
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09:00
Europe/London
An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of a major cause of dementia, with important implications for possible treatment and diagnosis.
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07
December
2017
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21:17
Europe/London
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.
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06
December
2017
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07:00
Europe/London
Scientists at the CRUK Manchester Institute, based at The University of Manchester, have discovered that testing skin cancer patients’ blood for tumour DNA could help predict the chances of an aggressive cancer returning.
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30
November
2017
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11:46
Europe/London
Fortunate Machingura, University of Manchester
In Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, the poor and the marginalised with HIV/AIDS lived on borrowed time. Although there were significant strides in reducing the country’s HIV prevalence from an average of 27%...
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01
September
2017
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10:00
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester have identified some key factors that establish oesophageal cancer cells.
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29
August
2017
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10:01
Europe/London
A new series of studies are drastically changing the way scientists think about the effect bacteria have on a number of diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Sepsis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and most recently Type 2 diabetes
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16
August
2017
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19:00
Europe/London
New research has discovered a way to stop a deadly fungus from ‘hijacking’ the body’s immune system and spreading to the brain.
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22
February
2017
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14:00
Europe/London
The human whipworm, which infects 500 million people and can damage physical and mental growth, is killed at egg and adult stage by a new drug class developed at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford and University College London.
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2016
19
December
2016
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17:00
Europe/London
A team of American and British scientists have for the first time discovered genetic connections between sleep disturbance and a range of medical disorders including obesity.
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05
December
2016
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16:05
Europe/London
Current approaches to dealing with burnouts in doctors on an individual case-by-case basis is not effective and the issue should instead be tackled with organisation-wide initiatives, according to researchers at The University of Manchester and the U...
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23
November
2016
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13:09
Europe/London
A highly successful University scheme to train “high flyers” who are likely to become future leaders in academia and industry has been renewed by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
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21
November
2016
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16:06
Europe/London
A blood test could predict how well small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients will respond to treatment, according to new research published in Nature Medicine today.
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