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The picture shows a prototype of the ultra low cost endoscope.

Redesigning cancer screening technology

Published
16 April 2019
Categories
Technology | Health | News

Engineers have developed a prototype endoscope which they say could cut the cost of manufacture from £80,000 to just £40.

Cartoon of damaging plaque building up within brain cells

Key step forward in tackling neurodegenerative diseases

Published
11 April 2019
Categories
Health | Science

A protein complex has been shown to play a key role in preventing the build-up of toxic plaques in the brain linked to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease.

Cityscape of London

Mind the equity gap

Published
10 April 2019
Categories
Working with business | Business & Economy

Companies in London, the South-East and the East of England receive 75% of all equity investments in the UK – and that share is increasing over time, new research has shown.

Picture shows people at a Pint of Science talk in Leeds in 2018

Taking science out of the lab and into the pub

Published
9 April 2019
Categories
News

Tickets are on sale for the world’s largest festival of public science talks, which will see over 50 Leeds scientists take to the stage in pubs across the city.

Protected area - Kate Ter Haar

Conservationists share core aims, but major rifts remain

Published
9 April 2019
Categories
Science | Environment

The first large-scale survey of those working to protect the natural world has found general agreement on the goals of conservation – but significant divisions on how to achieve them.

VLT Unit Telescopes Credit: .Hüdepohl (atacamaphoto.com)/ESO

Research spotlight - March 2019

Published
29 March 2019
Categories
University

March round-up of some of the latest research and education stories from the University.

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Leeds develops new European partnership

Published
26 March 2019
Categories
Global | University

The University has signed a new partnership agreement with one of Europe’s largest research and educational institutions.

Channel created by the flow of melted ice in Greenland

Unequal pain relief at home for dying patients

Published
22 March 2019
Categories
Health

Pain relief and end of life care is not being provided equally to people with advanced progressive diseases at home during their final three months, according to a new study.