university of nottingham

£17.4m for new health research center

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Nottingham) Nottinghamshire Healthcare and the University of Nottingham, have won £17.4m in funding to establish a new research center to help improve patient care across the region.

Life under the laser

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Nottingham) Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a unique technology that will allow scientists to look at microscopic activity within the body's chemical messenger system for the very first time, live as it happens.

Possible link found between X-rays and prostate cancer

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Nottingham) Researchers at the University of Nottingham have shown an association between certain past diagnostic radiation procedures and an increased risk of young-onset prostate cancer -- a rare form of prostate cancer which affects about 10 percent of all men diagnosed with the disease.

Talking to cells

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(Wiley-Blackwell) Cameron Alexander and George Pasparakis at the University of Nottingham have been able to facilitate a conversation between bacterial cells and artificial polymer vesicles by way of sugar groups on the vesicle surface.

The breathing lifeline that comes at a price

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

(University of Nottingham) A research collaboration between the universities of Nottingham and Leicester is to use computer modelling of lungs based on information collected from real patients to look at the best way of using ventilators to treat patients while minimizing the risk of injury.