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Pioneering data and AI advancements helping to deliver the NHS’s future vision

¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ is pioneering advancements in data and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve healthcare and tackle health inequalities and will play a critical role in helping the government deliver its new 10-year plan for the NHS.

Doctor audiologist using otoscope while examining ear of his senior adult patient in doctor's office

First-in-human trial for regenerative cell therapy for sensorineural hearing loss approved 

Rinri Therapeutics, a world leading spinout company from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ dedicated to transforming sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) with regenerative cell therapy, has received approval to begin its first-in-human clinical trial. 
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Great British Chemicals to turn industrial waste into world-first green chemistry

A major research centre that is set to position the UK as a global leader in clean technology, is being launched by the universities of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ, Newcastle and Nottingham.
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Elmfield biodiversity hotspot (Credit: Alexander Dunnett, Landscape Operative)

New study revealing bees' secret to super-efficient learning could revolutionise AI and robotics

A new discovery of how bees use their flight movements to facilitate remarkably accurate learning & recognition of complex visual patterns could mark a major change in how next-generation AI is developed, according to a University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ study.
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¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers awarded £4.7m for major new greenhouse gas removal demonstration project

A team of scientists have been awarded £4.7m to develop a large multi-partner research project looking at the scientific, economic and social acceptability of using rock dust in agriculture to capture greenhouse gases.

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Over half of UK’s arts and cultural venues at risk from pandemic

Over half of the UK’s arts and cultural venues and organisations believe they are at risk due to the decline in income during the pandemic, a new study from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ has shown.
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University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ researchers to help bring Green Industrial Revolution

Researchers from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ are part of a new £20 million centre that is set to play a key role in driving research and innovation to support the government’s plans for a Green Industrial Revolution.
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Smoking and health 2021: A coming of age for tobacco control?

Researchers from the University of ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) have contributed to a new report Smoking and Health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control? for the Royal College of Physicians.
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Study confirms longer-term lung damage after COVID-19

A study by ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ and Oxford researchers using a cutting-edge method of imaging has identified persistent damage to the lungs of COVID-19 patients at least three months after they were discharged from hospital, and for some patients even longer.