Companies who are part of SETsquared Bristol, the acclaimed University of Bristol-led tech incubator, attracted record investment of £98.8 million in 2021, with £77.9 million of this raised by companies who have spun out of the University.
Researchers from the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have found that a high Body Mass Index (BMI) of a mother before and during pregnancy is not a major cause of high BMI in their offspring – indicating that childhood and teen obesity is more likely to be a result of lifestyle factors.
The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team led by the universities of Bristol, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand.
