International
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Robotic muscles could turn back body clock by 2050
4 September 2020
Loss of strength and muscle wastage is currently an unavoidable part of getting older and has a significant impact on health and quality of life.
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Biofriendly protocells pump up blood vessels
20 November 2020
An international team of researchers from Bristol and China has prepared biocompatible protocells that generate nitric oxide gas 鈥� a known reagent for blood vessel dilation - that when placed inside blood vessels expand the biological tissue.
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Combining electronic and photonic chips enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection
9 November 2020
Bristol researchers have developed a tiny device that paves the way for higher performance quantum computers and quantum communications, making them significantly faster than the current state-of-the-art.
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Good Grief Festival to explore the many faces of grief
8 October 2020
A free online festival exploring the many faces of grief will take place for the first time this month [Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November]. Broadcast from a studio in Bristol and reaching thousands of people all over the UK, Good Grief, will include 70 events exploring the universal human experience of grief through panel discussions, conversations, interactive workshops and webinars.
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Bristol's computer vision experts working with BT to enhance experience of live events
8 October 2020
Computer vision experts from the University of Bristol are part of a new consortium, led by BT, driving the technology that will revolutionise the way we consume live events, from sports such as MotoGP and boxing, to dance classes.
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Big babies, little mothers: tsetse flies show extreme mothering
4 November 2020
The tsetse fly is an exception to the almost universal law of nature that babies are born smaller than their mothers.
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Research suggests significantly less risk of COVID-19 transmission from anaesthesia procedures
6 October 2020
Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much debate about the danger to hospital staff from anaesthetic procedures. Concerns include that placing a tube in the patient's airway (intubation) before surgery or removing it at the end (extubation) may produce a fine mist of small particles (called aerosols) and spread the COVID-19 virus to nearby staff.
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Risk of self-harm increases for boys and girls who experience earlier puberty
6 October 2020
Boys and girls who experience puberty earlier than their peers have an increased risk of self-harm in adolescence, a study funded by the National Institute for Health Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR Bristol BRC) and published in the journal Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences today [Tuesday 6 October] has found.
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Rapid point-of-care testing during and after COVID-19 鈥� how widely should it be used?
17 November 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the point-of-care testing industry was investing millions of pounds to develop rapid tests to tell us the cause of respiratory infections. The pandemic has accelerated this process. In an editorial published in the British Journal of General Practice today [17 November], researchers from the University of Bristol鈥檚 Centre for Academic Primary Care ask if we know enough about these tests to merit their widespread use in primary care.
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Battling with neighbours could make animals smarter
6 October 2020
From ants to primates, 鈥楴apoleonic鈥� intelligence has evolved to help animals contend with the myriad cognitive challenges arising from interactions with rival outsiders, suggest researchers at the University of Bristol in a paper published in Nature Communications today [Tuesday 6 October].
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