Press releases

Experts from the University of Nottingham have found that the sex of a jockey doesn’t influence any aspect of racehorse physiology and performance.

Experts at the University of Nottingham are calling on adults with cerebral palsy (CP) to help them with some research to find out how their conditions are changing with age, and what support services they have and need to keep them healthy throughout their lives.

Experts at the University of Nottingham have worked with people with single-sided deafness (SSD), to find out what effects from the condition matter to them the most, which in turn, will help towards developing more effective treatments for the condition.

A scientist from the University of Nottingham is part of an expedition travelling to the Antarctic to measure the effects of climate change in the Weddell Sea.

Experts from the University of Nottingham have developed a protocol for clinicians around the world, which will help to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment of childhood cancer, and could increase the chance of survival from the disease.

Scientists in the UK and Cuba are urging members of the public to vote for the ‘world’s most beautiful snail’, in an international competition to unravel its DNA blueprint – thus unlocking the key to its beauty.

Scientists in Nottingham have been awarded £462,462 for the development of a vaccine for the Zika virus from £10m of UK Aid funding for research into vaccines to protect the world from deadly diseases.

The Biodiscovery Institute at the University of Nottingham and Animal Free Research UK have teamed up to develop cutting-edge human stem-cell technology to combat cardiac fibrosis - a major cause of heart failure in the UK affecting 900,000 people annually.

A new study, involving researchers from the University of Nottingham, is recruiting more than 35,000 immunocompromised people to determine their immune response to the Covid-19 vaccination and future risk of infection, hospitalisation and survival over six months.