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Visualisation of a vertebra damaged by a tumour

Engineering quality of life for people with advanced cancers

Published
28 January 2022
Categories
Working with business | Science | Technology | Health

A £7 million research project has been launched to develop a new imaging and keyhole surgery approach to the treatment of secondary bone tumours of the spine.

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AI can identify heart disease from an eye scan

Published
25 January 2022
Categories
Global | Science | Health | Technology

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can analyse eye scans taken during a routine visit to an optician or eye clinic and identify patients at a high risk of a heart attack.

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Retailer loans rare art to University gallery

Published
21 January 2022
Categories
Working with business | University | Arts & Culture

Five major artworks have gone on display at the University thanks to a major loan by Marks & Spencer for the benefit of its home city.

Children in school uniform on a climbing frame

Tracking a city’s young people as they come of age

Published
20 January 2022
Categories
Working with our region | Health | Science

Researchers have secured £7 million to fund the next stage of the pioneering Born in Bradford study into the health and wellbeing of the city’s young people.

A cow in a field with blue sky and white clouds

A better understanding of foot-and-mouth disease

Published
17 January 2022
Categories
Science

The imaging of vanishingly tiny structures created by the foot-and-mouth disease virus could one day help scientists develop new treatments for infected animals. 

Olivia Cotes-James sat at a table with boxes of LUÜNA Naturals products on the table.

Olivia Cotes-James: Talking taboos

Published
15 January 2022
Categories
Alumni

Named in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, founder of LUÜNA Naturals Olivia Cotes-James (English Literature 2013) is improving lives across a continent.

The skyline over Dhaka, Bangladesh

Unintended consequences of mask mandates

Published
10 January 2022
Categories
Science | Coronavirus | Global

Governments need to be careful about the messaging around compulsory mask wearing to ensure the policy is fully effective, say researchers.

The earth as seen from space

Study reveals hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved

Published
5 January 2022
Categories
Global | Science

During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations.

Professor Cath Noakes with a member of the audience doing an experiment

COVID-19 ‘has reshaped science forever’

Published
20 December 2021
Categories
Science | Coronavirus | Health

Following in a long line of eminent scientists and engineers, Professor Cath Noakes will stand in the Royal Institution’s iconic auditorium and explain the big ideas reshaping society.

Handwritten letters signed by Branwell Brontë held by hands in white gloves

University home for Brontë treasure trove

Published
16 December 2021
Categories
Working with our region | Arts & Culture

Rare handwritten manuscripts and printed books by the Brontës have been entrusted to the University's Brotherton Library.