International
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Bristol Nanomaterials Centre goes to China
16 September 2013
Staff and PhD students from the Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials have been visiting their counterparts in China.
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Epic ocean voyages of baby corals revealed
21 August 2013
For the first time, scientists have recreated the journeys of millimetre-sized baby coral through the world鈥檚 seas, suggesting some of these tiny adventurers may cross entire oceans. The study, by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Miami, will help predict how coral reef distributions may change in response to changing oceans.
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Human neural stem cells could meet the clinical problem of critical limb ischemia
25 November 2013
New research, led by academics in the University鈥檚 School of Clinical Sciences, has shown human neural stem cells could improve blood flow in critical limb ischemia through the growth of new vessels.
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Squeezing in the micro-domain
9 October 2013
Researchers from Universities of Bristol and D眉sseldorf have found a method to measure the pressure inside microscopic objects such as cells in our bodies.
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Dogs could act as effective early-warning system for patients with diabetes
20 August 2013
Dogs that are trained to respond to their owners鈥� hypoglycaemia could offer a very effective way to alert diabetic patients of impending lowered blood sugars. The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is the first academic study to assess whether trained dogs could be used as a reliable early-warning system to monitor glycaemia control.
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Achilles鈥� heel of ice shelves is beneath the water, scientists reveal
15 September 2013
New research has revealed that more ice leaves Antarctica by melting from the underside of submerged ice shelves than was previously thought, accounting for as much as 90 per cent of ice loss in some areas.
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Solving the Internet capacity crunch: first demonstration of a multicore fibre network
8 October 2013
The University of Bristol's High Performance Networks Group in collaboration with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have demonstrated successfully for the first time a multicore fibre-based network, which will form the foundation for the future Internet infrastructure.
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Functioning 鈥榤echanical gears鈥� seen in nature for the first time
12 September 2013
Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did. The juvenile聽Issus聽- a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing 鈥榯eeth鈥� that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal鈥檚 legs when it launches into a jump.
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A microbe鈥檚 trick for staying young
12 September 2013
While aging remains an inevitable fact of life, an international team involving researchers from the University of Bristol and the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany has found that this is not the case for a common species of yeast microbe which has evolved to stay young.
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Bristol welcomes the Ashinaga Foundation
13 July 2018
The University of Bristol has signed a memoranda of understanding with the Ashinaga foundation, a non-profit organisation who provide educational support to orphaned children worldwide.
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