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2023
23
April
2023
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16:40
Europe/London
Professor Sheena Cruickshank from The University of Manchester has been honoured by the British Society for Immunology for her work raising awareness of the importance of immunology in our daily lives.
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22
February
2023
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15:07
Europe/London
People living in urban areas report significantly worse hay fever symptoms according to the first study to compare pollution levels with the severity and duration of real-time symptoms.
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2022
03
October
2022
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17:00
Europe/London
Mice who have been tricked into thinking they are fasting manage inflammation more easily, according to neurobiologists at The University of Manchester and collaborators from the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, in Italy.
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21
January
2022
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13:20
Europe/London
Jeff Bezos is on a mission to conquer ageing. He has just recruited Hal Barron from GlaxoSmithKline to help lead Altos Labs, the ambitious new anti-ageing company with billions of investment. So what does science really say about this? Could we beat …
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13
January
2022
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13:46
Europe/London
The journey to a pig-heart transplant began 60 years agoOn Friday, January 7 2022, David Bennett became the world’s first person to successfully receive a transplant of a pig’s heart. The eight-hour-long operation by surgeons at the University …
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2021
31
August
2021
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08:51
Europe/London
An immunology student at The University of Manchester has won a Silver in the women's SB5 100m breaststroke at the Paralympics in Tokyo
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25
August
2021
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13:08
Europe/London
An immunology student at The University of Manchester is to go for Paralympic glory as world number one when she starts in the swimming competition on Thursday (26/08/21).
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30
July
2021
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14:29
Europe/London
University of Manchester students and staff will be cheering along talented runner Aimee Pratt, who competes for team GB in the 3000m steeplechase on Sunday (August 1).
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30
June
2021
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10:23
Europe/London
A leading scientist has charted the recent and dramatic breakthroughs in our understanding of the body in a new book out tomorrow (July 1).
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03
June
2021
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15:41
Europe/London
Women may have a stronger immune response to a common form of skin cancer than men, according to early research on mice and human cells.
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14
April
2021
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15:04
Europe/London
University of Manchester scientists have discovered a persistent alteration in the immune system of patients, six months after they have been hospitalised for Covid-19 which could be associated with poorer health outcomes.
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11
January
2021
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15:09
Europe/London
Millions of people across the world have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Countries are also now embarking on massive vaccination campaigns to control the virus and protect their most vulnerable citizens. One of the …
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2020
07
December
2020
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15:08
Europe/London
If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world’s population needs to be immune to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. But with so many different vaccines in production, questions are undoubtedly going to be …
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29
October
2020
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08:14
Europe/London
Newly released research suggests that levels of antibodies against the coronavirus have declined across the UK population since testing began. Having randomly sampled 365,000 people across the country, the React2 study – which is yet to be …
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19
October
2020
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17:00
Europe/London
A decade-long study has identified the factor produced by a common species of skin bacteria that triggers eczema, in a breakthrough of our understanding of the condition.
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16
October
2020
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13:34
Europe/London
As President Trump claims that he is immune to COVID-19 and isolated reports emerge of reinfection, what is the truth about immunity to COVID-19?
To date, there have been six published cases of COVID-19 reinfection, with various other unverified …
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13
October
2020
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15:13
Europe/London
A rare genetic condition which causes inflammatory bowel disease can be successfully treated by bone marrow transplant, according to University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust researchers.
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23
September
2020
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11:55
Europe/London
White blood cells called monocytes released into the blood from bone marrow have abnormal features in people who have COVID-19, according to a new study by University of Manchester immunologists at the Lydia Becker Institute.
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28
August
2020
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00:04
Europe/London
UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium to address key unanswered questions about immunity and COVID-19
Immunologist Professor Tracy Hussell from The University of Manchester and a team from across the UK will be investigating the nature of COVID-19 infection outside hospital.
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21
August
2020
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14:48
Europe/London
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The severity of COVID-19 can vary hugely. In some it causes no symptoms at all and in others it’s life threatening, with some people particularly vulnerable to its very severe impacts.
The virus …
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11
June
2020
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13:35
Europe/London
Developing a vaccine is difficult at the best of times, but rarely have we been in a situation where basic knowledge about a virus has to be acquired so directly alongside the race to eradicate it. To understand how difficult this task is, we must …
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11
May
2020
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15:53
Europe/London
Many countries are moving to exit a lockdown triggered by COVID-19, but the virus has not gone away and there are real concerns that a second wave of infection could happen. We urgently need to understand more about how the body deals with this …
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2019
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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12
February
2019
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03:02
Europe/London
Scientists have discovered a critical part of the body’s immune system with potentially major implications for the treatment of some of the most devastating diseases affecting humans.
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2018
25
October
2018
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08:18
Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester have shown for the first time how antibiotics can predispose the gut to avoidable infections that trigger bowel disease in mice.
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01
October
2018
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16:13
Europe/London
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two immunologists for their revolutionary approaches to treat cancer. Professor Sheena Cruickshank explains the science
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