Methadone treatment improves long-term survival of drug users and reduces the risk of death with each year of treatment, a study has shown. Research carried out by the universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Edinburgh found that opiate substitution treatment reduced the frequency of drug use and led to a drop in the risk of death by 13 per cent each year.
Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered a way to make a highly concentrated water-free liquid of a key blood protein, myoglobin, opening up the possibility of new types of biomedical materials.
Professor Dek Woolfson works at the interface between chemistry and biology, researching into the exciting and potentially controversial field of synthetic biology
Households on low incomes will feel the cold pinch of winter more than most as rising energy bills and promised cuts to welfare benefits threaten to push them beyond the brink of their financial limits. So suggests a report from the Centre for Sustainable Energy and the University of Bristol, proving that poverty, fuel hardship and financial difficulty are inextricably linked.
A new study by the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences that examines how physical activity fits into family life has found families rarely take part in physical activity as a family because of the demands of work, school and the different interests of family members.
Tanks, bombs and soldiers may be the immediate occupants of the vast swathes of militarized territories across the world, but do they have other functions and meanings? A new book that takes an unprecedented look at these places holds some unexpected answers.
New research from the University of Bristol has found that the rights and needs of young men with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are being severely restricted by the failure of many services to provide good planning and support.
A unique archive of material belonging to Robert Ferguson FRS has just been purchased by the University of Bristol Library’s Special Collections. The archive, until now owned by the Ferguson family, was uncovered by historian of geology, Dr Cherry Lewis, while she was researching the early history of the Geological Society for her book, "The Making of the Geological Society of London".
The subject of a sixteenth-century portrait of a young man, that belongs to the National Portrait Gallery, has been identified as Sir Robert Dudley, the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite courtier, the Earl of Leicester, by students at the University of Bristol.
The stimulatory effects of caffeine may be nothing more than an illusion according to new research, which shows there is no real benefit to be gained from the habitual morning cup of coffee.
