News in January
- Pioneering research forecasts climate change set to send costs of flooding soaring 31 January 2022 Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the United States by 2050 – and disadvantaged communities will bear the biggest brunt, according to new research.
- £4.9 million award to investigate pioneering biological electronics 28 January 2022 Researchers from universities across the UK, led by the University of Bristol, have been awarded £4.9 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the UK’s largest bioscience funder, to investigate how electrons and energy flow through biological molecules by building artificial protein-based wires and circuits.
- People’s long-term pain after knee surgery is reduced, new treatment has shown 27 January 2022 With one in five people experiencing ongoing pain long after knee replacement surgery, new research, led by the University of Bristol and North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and published in The Lancet Rheumatology today [27 January], has shown a way to help reduce people’s continuing pain that could also save the NHS time and money too.
- Bristol announces £16.8m investment in 400 new PhD scholarships 27 January 2022 The University of Bristol has announced it will create 400 new postgraduate scholarships.
- World-first facility will change the way we design and construct major infrastructure 27 January 2022 High performance shaking tables and deep soil pit will cut financial and environmental costs whilst ensuring resilience of high-value infrastructure.
- Bristol team chase down advantage in quantum race 26 January 2022 Quantum researchers at the University of Bristol have dramatically reduced the time to simulate an optical quantum computer, with a speedup of around one billion over previous approaches.
- International research collaboration to investigate eliminating hepatitis C in Ethiopia 26 January 2022 An international research team will lead elimination efforts of Hepatitis C in Ethiopia - one of the worst affected African countries of the disease - thanks to funding of £2.2 million by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
- New research project aims to change how people talk about death and grief, thanks to National Lottery funding 26 January 2022 Grief effects everyone but is still very much a taboo subject in the UK. A new research project - Good Grief Connects - led by the University of Bristol aims to change society's attitude towards grief, death and dying thanks to funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK.
- Smoking may increase risk of heart attack via enhanced platelet activity, new research suggests 26 January 2022 Smoking cigarettes may increase the risk of a heart attack by activating a gene that affects blood clotting, according to a new study by scientists at the University of Bristol.
- Bristol’s community running events return 25 January 2022 Free medals and training plans up for grabs.
- Mixed Reality and AI to aid surgeons with keyhole heart valve surgery 24 January 2022 Cardiac surgeons could in the future be conducting procedures virtually before even stepping into an operating theatre thanks to researchers from the University of West of England who are working with cardiac surgeons from the University of Bristol on new technology that will allow surgeons to better predict risks and help prevent the conversion of a keyhole heart valve operation to open heart surgery.
- Granddaughters and great-granddaughters of men who start to smoke before puberty, have more body fat than expected, research shows 21 January 2022 A new study, led by the University of Bristol and published in Scientific Reports today [21 January], has reported increased body fat in females whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers began smoking before puberty.
- Scientists build ‘valves’ in DNA to shape biological information flows 21 January 2022 Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed new biological parts that are able to shape the flow of cellular processes along DNA.
- TV watching linked with potentially fatal blood clots 20 January 2022 Take breaks when binge-watching TV to avoid blood clots, say scientists. The warning comes as a study reports that watching TV for four hours a day or more is associated with a 35 per cent higher risk of blood clots compared with less than 2.5 hours. The University of Bristol research is published today [20 January] in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the ESC.
- Professor David Easty, 1933-2022 20 January 2022 David Easty, retired Professor of Ophthalmology, died last week. John Armitage, Professor Emeritus at Bristol Medical School, offers this remembrance.
- Bristol ranked as 41st most international university in the world 20 January 2022 Students at the University of Bristol are studying at one of the world’s most international institutions, a new study has found.
- Muscular study provides new information about how the largest dinosaurs moved and evolved 19 January 2022 New research led by the University of Bristol has revealed how giant 50-tonne sauropod dinosaurs, like Diplodocus, evolved from much smaller ancestors, like the wolf-sized Thecodontosaurus
- New environment-friendly shield could offer better protection during dental surgery 17 January 2022 Dental patients and practitioners could be better protected from COVID-19 and other airborne viruses and bacteria thanks to the development of a new environment-friendly shield by a multidisciplinary team from the University of Bristol and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW). The shield could also increase the number of patients seen by dentists and help reduce procedure wait times.
- Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine 17 January 2022 A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, in co-operation with colleagues from Goethe University, Frankfurt, has uncovered the first insights into the origins of West African plant-based cuisine, locked inside pottery fragments dating back some 3,500 years ago.
- Being overweight may cause more UK hospital admissions than previously thought, finds new study 14 January 2022 Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report, according to new University of Bristol-led research. The study, published in Economics and Human Biology, used a genetic technique to identify the sole impact of body composition on hospital admissions from over 300,000 people.
- University of Bristol celebrated for contributing to the UK’s creative excellence 13 January 2022 Hollywood actor Simon Pegg and children's author Julia Donaldson are among the University of Bristol's famous alumni recognised as the country’s greatest creative minds in a new campaign to showcase the creative talent nurtured at UK universities and encourage the government to support creative courses.
- From university taster course to prestigious lectureship 11 January 2022 Dr Michael Wray was the first person in his family to go to university.
- OBE for Bristol grad dedicating her life to helping world’s poorest children 7 January 2022 A doctor who has changed the lives of thousands of the world’s poorest children has been honoured with an OBE.
- ‘I was eating 1,000 calories a day, now I’m making healthy groceries accessible to everyone’ 7 January 2022 Two years ago Sonny Drinkwater was exercising 20 times a week and counting every single one of the 1,000 daily calories he consumed.
- Scientists develop a novel strategy for sustainable post-lithium-ion batteries 6 January 2022 Scientists astounded by performance of sustainable batteries with far-reaching implications for e-vehicles and devices.
- Urban gardens are a dependable food source for pollinators through the year, study suggests 5 January 2022 Gardens in cities provide a long and continuous supply of energy-rich nectar from March to October, scientists at the University of Bristol have found.
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