22 December 2009
A new film project that gives an insight into the extraordinary research carried out by Bristol mathematicians is being unveiled at the University of Bristol this week.
22 December 2009
More than 300 people die of a heart attack each day and research has shown there is a peak in heart attacks on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day due perhaps to rich meals, alcohol and stress. A new British Heart Foundation (BHF) grant of £715,000 has been awarded to Professor Andrew Newby at the Bristol Heart Institute, to find out if harmful sub-types of immune cells cause more heart attacks.
18 December 2009
Bristol University has rounded off its centenary celebrations by launching a unique video artwork that combines high technology with tradition and will help carry the university’s name around the world.
18 December 2009
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what circumstances it might go awry.
16 December 2009
A new MRC grant of over £290,000 has been awarded to Paolo Madeddu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascluar Medicine in the Bristol Heart Institute, to study stem cells in patients with cardiovascular disease.
16 December 2009
The role of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) — the independent public body set up to investigate possible miscarriages of justice — is questioned in a new book launched today [16 Dec] at a reception hosted by David Lammy, Minister of State for Higher Education, at the House of Commons in London.
16 December 2009
Research for the Cabinet Office by Dr Eldin Fahmy from the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies indicates that 16 per cent of working-age adults without children over the age of 25 – or 2.6 million people – experience multiple forms of social exclusion at any one point in time.
16 December 2009
A 3D recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii has been built in the virtual world Second Life by Dr Shelley Hales and Dr Nic Earle from the University of Bristol.
15 December 2009
The European Commission recently highlighted the need for good English-language translators and this year over 40 new postgraduates at the University are rising to the challenge by taking an online master’s degree in translation.
15 December 2009
Climate geoengineering may help maintain the Greenland ice sheet by reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth’s surface which in turn would cool the climate, despite rising CO2 levels.
