The means to fully understand and exploit a type of fungus that could form the basis of a new class of antibiotics has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. With certain strains of bacteria becoming resistant to existing drugs, there is a growing need to find new sources of antibiotics.
Jeremy O'Brien, Professorial Research Fellow in Physics and Electrical Engineering, has won the Institute of Physics Moseley Medal, awarded for distinguished research in experimental physics.
They say money can’t buy you happiness – but it seems that being ‘happy in yourself’ can make you a more successful mum, regardless of your financial circumstances, according to new research using the Children of the 90s cohort.
Gene therapy could be an effective way to improve survival rates among heart attack patients, new research by academics at the University of Bristol suggests.
A new model, capable of assessing the rate at which the oceans are acidifying, suggests that changes in the carbonate chemistry of the deep ocean may exceed anything seen in the past 65 million years.
A major new report on the pros and cons of different voting systems will be launched today at the British Academy.
For more than 80,000 people worldwide cystic fibrosis (CF) is a debilitating disease for which there remains no cure. But the work of a European-wide network of scientists and clinicians, led by Dr David Sheppard from the University of Bristol, has made significant advances in patient care and therapy development.
A survey of the media coverage that followed Jack Straw’s requests to Muslim women to remove their face veils when visiting him in his constituency surgery charts the ways in which the wearing of Muslim headscarves and face veils in the UK today has assumed increased social and political significance.
Psychological violence during pregnancy by an intimate partner is strongly associated with postnatal depression, independently of physical or sexual violence, according to a paper by researchers in Bristol and Brazil, published today in The Lancet. This finding has important policy implications since most social policies focus on prevention and treatment of physical violence.
Professor Stafford Lightman in the Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology are interested in how stress impacts upon human health and the way it responds to disease
