Combatting childhood obesity from the age of two
A successful American initiative to tackle childhood obesity will be trialled in the UK, thanks to a new £431,495 research project targeting children as young as two.
Research
£1.5 million to enhance new pregnancy bioresource
A project to enhance a new pregnancy biobank that will help researchers from the UK and around the world find out more about the causes of childhood illness by studying children from all cultures and backgrounds is due to commence thanks to a £1.5 million Wellcome Trust grant.
Book on medieval Irish history launched at Royal Irish Academy
A new book on the English colonial community in late medieval Ireland by a University of Bristol academic was launched at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin this week.
UK's first research into the effect of exercise on children with congenital heart disease
Toshiba Medical Systems Partners have announced a three-year research partnership with the University of Bristol and the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust‘s Clinical Research and Imaging Centre (CRICBristol). The first research study will be to investigate the effects of exercise on children with congenital heart disease.
The science of bladder control takes top thesis prize
‘To pee or not to pee’, that was the subject of the winning presentation at the University of Bristol’s inaugural competition to challenge postgraduate researchers to present their 80,000-word theses in just three minutes.
Why some parents think your partner isn’t good enough
It is common for parents to influence mate choice — from arranged marriages to more subtle forms of persuasion — but they often disagree with their children about what makes a suitable partner. A new study has found an evolutionary explanation for why some parents try to control who their children pair up with.
Moderate drinking during pregnancy does not appear to harm child’s balance
Moderate drinking during pregnancy — three to seven glasses of alcohol a week — does not appear to harm the child’s ability to balance, suggests a large study, led by academics at the University of Bristol and published online in the journal BMJ Open.
Ship noise impairs feeding and heightens predation risk for crabs
The noise of passing ships disrupts feeding for the common shore crab, according to new research from the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter. Perhaps worse, the study also found that when threatened, crabs took longer to retreat to shelter and lost their natural ‘play dead’ behaviour.
Finding the Goldilocks sites to store CO2 underground
To implement carbon capture and storage (CCS) successfully, each underground repository will need careful appraisal based on its unique history and setting, according to a new study co-authored by researchers from the University of Bristol.
New method to age cattle from their teeth
New research by academics at the University of Bristol’s School of Veterinary Sciences has applied modern statistical techniques to investigate the association between the stages of dentition in cattle and their age to give a more detailed explanation of the differences between the sexes and various breeds of cattle in the UK.