International
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Bristol scientist named Innovator of the Year for sight-saving device
20 June 2017
Dr Shelby Temple, from the University of Bristol鈥檚 School of Biological Sciences, has been named Innovator of the Year 2017 for his ground-breaking work into polarisation and macular degeneration.
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拢1.8m for major study into management of bleeding after childbirth
20 June 2017
The UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) has awarded a collaboration led by Liverpool, Bristol and Sunderland 拢1.8m to run a large study into the drug treatment of bleeding after childbirth (also called postpartum haemorrhage or PPH).
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Anonymous cell phone data can quantify behavioral changes for flu-like illnesses, study finds
28 January 2021
Being prepared for a pandemic, like COVID-19, depends on the ability to predict the course of the pandemic and the human behaviour that drives spread in the event of an outbreak. Cell phone metadata that is routinely collected by telecommunications providers can reveal changes of behavior in people who are diagnosed with a flu-like illness, while also protecting their anonymity, a new study has found. The research, led by Emory University and devised by the University of Bristol, is based on data drawn from a 2009 outbreak of H1N1 influenza in Iceland and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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200 years since Parkinson鈥檚 disease was first identified
11 April 2017
World Parkinson's Disease Day [11 April] is held every year on Parkinson's birthday to raise awareness of the disease and the research being done to alleviate it. To mark 200 years since James Parkinson first identified the condition named after him, a new biography of this forgotten man has been published.
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Tocilizumab cuts mortality risk in severely ill COVID-19 patients finds new trial conducted in India
8 March 2021
Tocilizumab, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, improves outcomes in severely ill COVID-19 patients, finds the results of a new trial conducted in hospitals across India 鈥� one of the world鈥檚 most ethnically diverse countries.
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Combining heroin and commonly prescribed non-opioid pain killers leads to a significant rise in overdose deaths
11 May 2017
A multi-disciplinary study has shown that the recent substantial increase in prescriptions for two drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, used widely for a range of neurological disorders is closely correlated with a rise in the number of overdose deaths in England and Wales. These drugs have become drugs of abuse, according to new University of Bristol findings published in Addiction, which highlight that they are especially dangerous when used with heroin or other opioids
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Pictures from an eruption
7 December 2010
Scientists from Bristol were among a group visiting the Afar Rift in Ethiopia in November when a volcano in the region began erupting 鈥� the first time that scientists have witnessed such an occurrence there.
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Bristol partner with Google to deliver next generation video technology
10 April 2017
With increased demands for better quality and more immersive and interactive visual services, video has become the primary driver of the internet. A team of researchers from the Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) at the University of Bristol has received funding under Google's Research Awards program to deliver the next generation of video compression technology.
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New study unravels Darwin鈥檚 鈥榓bominable mystery鈥� surrounding origin of flowering plants
28 January 2021
The origin of flowering plants famously puzzled Charles Darwin, who described their sudden appearance in the fossil record from relatively recent geological times as an 鈥渁bominable mystery鈥�. This mystery has further deepened with an inexplicable discrepancy between the relatively recent fossil record and a much older time of origin of flowering plants estimated using genome data.
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Bristol scientists to help heart patients by transforming veins into arteries
10 April 2017
Scientists at the University of Bristol are to investigate a new regenerative and tissue engineering technique to improve outcomes for people having heart bypass surgery.
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