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The latest updates from the School of Biosciences.
News from the school
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- Two University of Nottingham professors have been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize, an annual £1 million fund awarded for the best research or innovation that supports the economic development and social welfare of developing countries.
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- 30/01/2018
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- Scientists at The University of Nottingham have shown, for the first time, that a naturally occurring hormone plays a vital part in regulating a woman's fertility, a discovery that could lead to better diagnosis and treatment of infertility.
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- 30/01/2018
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- An Emeritus Professor from the University of Nottingham has been given one of China's highest academic honours having been made a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
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- 30/01/2018
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- A multidisciplinary team of researchers including those working in agriculture, nutrition, socio-economics, geography, and ethics has received more than £4.4m from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help alleviate micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs).
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- 30/01/2018
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- Original concerns that cloning caused early-onset osteoarthritis (OA) in Dolly the sheep are unfounded, say experts at the University of Nottingham and the University of Glasgow.
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- 30/01/2018
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- Plant scientists at the University of Nottingham have identified a 'Hawaiian Skirt' gene that plays a critical role in plant growth and development – a discovery that will help improve crop yields and address the growing problem of food security.
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- 30/01/2018
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- Experts from the UK and Brazil have joined forces to address the challenges and opportunities for agricultural nitrogen science in Florianopolis, Brazil.
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- 30/01/2018
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- James Wong, the ethnobotanist who describes himself as a plant scientist with a lifelong food fixation, will give a straight-talking guide to making everyday foods healthier and tastier when he visits the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus on Wednesday 13 December 2017.
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- 30/01/2018
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- Students can diversify their degree course by choosing a language module for credits with the Language Centre.
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- 09/01/2018
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- HuiQi Yeo, an MRes (Food Science and Engineering) student at the University of Nottingham's Division of Food Sciences, has won the Masters Student of the Year Award at the 2017 EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and Technology) International Conference in Spain.
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- 04/12/2017