31 December 2011
Professor Jean Golding has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year honours list, on the eve of the 21st birthday of Children of 90s (also known as ALSPAC), the world-famous population study she founded in Bristol in 1991.
25 December 2011
Researchers from Children of the 90s at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with 22 other studies from across the world, have discovered three new genetic variants associated with the skin condition eczema, a chronic inflammatory disease that afflicts millions of patients around the world.
22 December 2011
Evidence of the single-celled ancestors of animals, dating from the interval in the Earth’s history just before multicellular animals appeared, has been discovered in 570 million-year-old rocks from South China by researchers from the University of Bristol, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Paul Scherrer Institut and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.
21 December 2011
Sheila Rowbotham, Visiting Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, has been appointed a Writer in Residence at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.
21 December 2011
Dr Heather Whitney has been awarded the 2012 President's Medal in Plant Sciences by the Society for Experimental Biology.
21 December 2011
Professor Kei Cho, Chair of Neuroscience in the University’s School of Clinical Sciences, has received one of the Royal Society’s most prestigious awards, a Wolfson Research Merit Award.
21 December 2011
A new partnership between Bristol University and a leading South Korean University will be at the forefront of research into tackling neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
20 December 2011
New research by academics in the University of Bristol's School of Clinical Sciences has investigated if nerve growth factor (NGF) gene therapy can prevent diabetic heart failure and small vascular disease in mice.
20 December 2011
New research by academics at the University of Bristol hopes to explain premature births and failed inductions of labour.
20 December 2011
Professor Bruce Hood's three-part series of lectures, entitled Meet Your Brain, will be broadcast on BBC Four on 27, 28 and 29 December
