International
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Novel host cell pathway hijacked during COVID-19 infection uncovered by Bristol researchers
14 June 2022
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has been investigating how the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, manipulates host proteins to penetrate into human cells. After identifying Neuropilin-1 (NRP1) as a host factor for SARS-CoV-2 infection, new findings published in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) today [14 June] describe how the coronavirus subverts a host cell pathway in order to infect human cells.
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New study aims to help parents have less stress and more fun in family life
7 December 2011
University of Bristol researchers are offering parents of 5- to 9-year-olds living in Horfield and Southmead the chance to take part in a free eight-week course that aims to help parents increase their children’s physical activity levels through providing practical ideas about being active, happy and healthy.
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Pioneering mathematical formula paves way for exciting advances in health, energy, and food industry
7 September 2022
A groundbreaking mathematical equation has been discovered, which could transform medical procedures, natural gas extraction, and plastic packaging production in the future.
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Global sea surface temperature dataset provides new measure of climate sensitivity over the last half million years
7 December 2011
Scientists at the Universities of Bristol and Southampton have developed important new insight into climate sensitivity – the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in the Earth’s radiation balance – over the last half million years.
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University to launch new interdisciplinary antimicrobial resistance research network
14 November 2018
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating global health emergency with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimating that 'superbugs' will kill 1.3 million people in Europe by 2050, including more than 90,000 in the UK, unless we can halt the rise in antibiotic-resistant infections. The University of Bristol is committed to tackling this global challenge and today [Wednesday 14 November] a new cross-faculty and interdisciplinary AMR research network will be launched, funded by the University's Elizabeth Blackwell Institute (EBI).
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More adults are using complementary and alternative medicine in England but access is unequal, finds survey
14 November 2018
Use of practitioner-led complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), such as acupuncture, massage, osteopathy and chiropractic treatment, rose from 12 per cent of the population in 2005 to 16 per cent of the population in 2015, according to a survey led by researchers at the University of Bristol's Centre for Academic Primary Care. However, access to these treatments was unequal, with women, those who are better off and those in the south of England more likely to use CAM.
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Boosting physical activity/curbing sitting time highly likely to lower breast cancer risk
6 September 2022
Boosting physical activity levels and curbing sitting time are highly likely to lower breast cancer risk, finds research designed to strengthen proof of causation. The study led by Cancer Council Victoria in Australia, and including the Bristol Medical School: Population Health Sciences, is published online today [6 September] in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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University of Bristol graduate blasts off to the International Space Station
4 December 2018
Bristol alumnus and NASA astronaut Anne McClain has donned astronaut boots and launched in the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft yesterday [3 December], on her first mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Pioneering research directly dates the earliest milk use in prehistoric Europe
17 October 2022
A new study has shown milk was used by the first farmers from Central Europe in the early Neolithic era around 7,400 years ago, advancing humans’ ability to gain sustenance from milk and establishing the early foundations of the dairy industry.
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Bristol signs MoU with new and pioneering Indian University
17 October 2022
The University of Bristol has signed a formal partnership with one of India’s newest and most exciting universities, offering a wealth of opportunities for research, teaching and student mobility.
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