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This area contains news from the University since October 2020. For stories from 2010 to October 2020, use the 'News archive' above or search at the top of the page.
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Cutting-edge MRI could revolutionise diagnosis of common heart problem aortic stenosis

Scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. 
Ernest Wright workshop

University helps historic ºù«Ӱҵ scissor maker sharpen its edge

A historic ºù«Ӱҵ scissor maker is gaining new insights into the traditional craftsmanship that it has used to lovingly handcraft scissors for over a century through a collaboration with the University of ºù«Ӱҵ.
DNA strand

FDA approves trial to advance pioneering treatment for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)

The US Food and Drug Administation (FDA) has approved BlackfinBio Limited’s Phase 1/2 clinical trial for its novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy targeting Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) Type 47 (SPG47).
Crowds being wowed at May Fayre 2023

ºù«Ӱҵ’s family fun Weston Park May Fayre is back!

The May Fayre, a day of free family entertainment in the heart of ºù«Ӱҵ, is back in the city for 2025, thanks to a partnership between the University of ºù«Ӱҵ and ºù«Ӱҵ City Council.
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Tramlines co-founder awarded honorary degree

The co-founder of Tramlines festival, who has developed a number of bars, restaurants and music venues in the city, is one of three esteemed recipients receiving honorary doctorates from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ this week (8-12 January 2024).

Aerial view of rows of high density terraced housing

The housing crisis is a result of failing housing policy, experts say

A call for a new integrated government housing strategy to address the housing crisis is the centre of a new report from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, London School of Economics and commissioned by the Family Building Society.
A picture of a white marine snail with a smaller snail on its back

Biologists uncover the secrets of evolutionary change

Significant evolutionary changes happen gradually as opposed to in dramatic ‘monster’ steps, biologists have discovered, answering the long-debated question as to how innovations like flight, vision, and the bearing of live offspring came to be.
A bowl of roasted mopane caterpillar at a market in Zimbabwe

Novel food regulations are a barrier for edible insects

Edible insects could be the key to a more sustainable food system, yet Novel Food Regulations could be restricting alternative environmentally-friendly sources of protein for consumers, a new report has found.
Injecting with insulin

100th anniversary of UK’s first clinical trial of insulin

In 1923, ºù«Ӱҵ industrialist and philanthropist Sir Stuart Goodwin became the first diabetes patient in England to be treated successfully with insulin