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Breakthrough in understanding enzymes that make antibiotic for drug-resistant pathogen
One of the WHO’s three critical priority pathogens, Acinetobacter baumannii, for which new antibiotics are urgently needed is one step closer to being tackled, as researchers from the Department of Chemistry - ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ have made a breakthrough in understanding the enzymes that assemble the antibiotic enacyloxin.
Light-activated metal catalyst destroys cancer cells’ vital energy source
A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using light.
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Climate Emergency declaration
Recognising that the next ten years will be crucial to limit global temperature rise the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ is now declaring a state of Climate Emergency.
UKRI fellowships awarded to Seven ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Academics
Several academics at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ have been awarded a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship, providing world class research in topics including autonomous vehicles to life in outer space.
Seven-year old inventor sees her machine made real at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Family Day
Over 5,000 people visited the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s special science themed Family Day at the weekend. Among them was seven-year-old Evie Williams who won the University’s Rube Goldberg machine competition.
Language and sporting success explored in innovative workshop
Linguistics experts from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ met with some of the UK’s top coach developers for a one-day workshop aimed at exploring language use in high-performance sports coaching and discussing ways to apply the latest research to real-life coaching situations.