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14 Jan 2020
Advances in scanning have allowed researchers for the first time to show lower levels of a protein found in the connections between neurons in the living brains of people with schizophrenia.
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8 Jan 2020
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo FRS, Director of the MRC Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford.
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2 Jan 2020
Electron cryomicroscopy (cryoEM) – which won the 2017 Nobel prize – could be made far cheaper by reducing the energy of the microscope and creating better detectors for imaging low energy electrons, according to a proof-of-principle demonstration by scientists at the MRC LMB.
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2 Jan 2020
In a landmark collaboration, the MRC, the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) have joined forces to fund a major new precision medicine consortium focused on tackling severe asthma.
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19 Dec 2019
Leading clinical endocrinologist Professor Brian Walker has been appointed as the new Chair of the MRC Population & Systems Medicine Board (PSMB).
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17 Dec 2019
Applications are sought to build a national portfolio of interdisciplinary Multimorbidity Research Collaboratives as part of “Tackling Multimorbidity at Scale” - a £20 million Strategic Priorities Fund initiative, jointly funded by the MRC and the DHSC, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), and in close collaboration with ESRC.
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17 Dec 2019
People were less likely to catch either influenza or a common cold-causing rhinovirus if they were already infected with the other virus, a new study by scientists from the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has found.
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13 Dec 2019
The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the UK MRC have undertaken a jointly funded initiative in order to foster collaborative links between infectious disease researchers in the UK and Japan.
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29 Oct 2019
Scientists are developing a low cost, rapid diagnostic sensor test which aims to show the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics within 45 minutes.
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24 Oct 2019
A therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis – the most common form of eczema – in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the MRC Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford.
