International
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New discovery could be a major advance for understanding neurological diseases
13 February 2017
The discovery of a new mechanism that controls the way nerve cells in the brain communicate with each other to regulate our learning and long-term memory could have major benefits to understanding how the brain works and what goes wrong in neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy and dementia. The breakthrough, published in Nature Neuroscience, was made by scientists at the University of Bristol and the University of Central Lancashire. The findings will have far-reaching implications in many aspects of neuroscience and understanding how the brain works.
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A brain wide chemical signal that enhances memory
24 January 2017
How does heightened attention improve our mental capacity? This is the question tackled by new University of Bristol research published today in the journal Cell Reports, which reveals a chemical signal released across the brain in response to attention demanding or arousing situations.
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Chemists find new way to break amide bonds
15 December 2011
Researchers in the University of Bristol鈥檚 School of Chemistry have found a way to accelerate the breakdown of amide bonds. The work, published in Angewandte Chemie, features as the lead highlight in the American Chemical Society's C&ENews this week.
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Transatlantic collaboration examines the legacies of slavery
13 December 2017
Bristol has become the first university in England to join Universities Studying Slavery (USS), a multi-institutional collaboration based at University of Virginia dedicated to furthering the study of slavery鈥檚 legacy and wider historical and contemporary race inequalities.
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One of the largest cleft research studies in the world welcomes its 10,000th participant
8 November 2022
One of the largest research programmes in cleft lip and palate in the world, The Cleft Collective, is celebrating after recently welcoming its 10,000th participant to the study. Led by the University of Bristol, this UK-wide study of children born with a cleft lip and/or palate (a gap in the lip and/or the roof of the mouth) is collecting data which can be used by researchers here in the UK and across the globe to investigate the causes of cleft and the best treatments for it.
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New Non-Executive Chairman joins Bristol Is Open
24 January 2017
Graeme Hobbs has joined Bristol Is Open as its new Non-Executive Chairman, commencing his role from 2 January 2017. Together with the rest of the Board he will further develop the project in order to successfully make Bristol the first open programmable city in the world.
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Bristol physicist takes up senior role in CERN project
29 March 2017
A particle physicist from the University of Bristol has been appointed to a senior role at one of the largest and most prestigious scientific projects in the world.
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Research into honour-based violence makes international impact
8 December 2010
Research into 鈥榟onour-based鈥� violence (HBV) and killings in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK by Professor Gill Hague and Dr Nazand Begikhani from the University鈥檚 School for Policy Studies http://www.bris.ac.uk/sps/, together with colleagues from the University of Roehampton, has earned plaudits from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the UN.
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Using composites for traffic bridges could save time and money
20 December 2010
New research, led by Dr Wendel Sebastian in the Department of Civil Engineering, suggests the use of advanced composite decks for traffic bridges could be the answer to building bridges in half the time, thereby dramatically reducing costs and traffic flow disruption.
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New design tool to enable global roaming smart phones
26 April 2017
Wireless communications is a technology that is used every day. Across society, there is a move away from using the internet on desktop computers and towards smartphones, tablets and laptops. Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a novel radio frequency (RF) design tool that will speed up the design of tuneable wireless devices and will enable smartphones to roam internationally.
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