Therapies used to fight human cancers successfully treat genetically similar tumours in sea turtles, a new study shows. In fact, turtles can survive their own tumours and help scientists better understand human cancers. A disease, known as fibropapillomatosis, has been rapidly spreading to sea turtles around the world. Fbropapillomatosis results in large tumours growing on … Continue reading Human cancer therapies successfully treat sea turtles

Bangor University’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) PollerGEN project team is now working on a way to detect airborne pollen from different species of allergenic grass. Roughly one in five Europeans suffers from allergic reactions to tree, grass and weed pollen causing pollinosis, hay fever and allergic asthma. Allergies to substances such as pollen are … Continue reading More accurate pollen forecasting system using plant DNA

Researchers at Bangor University have carried out research to try and understand reward driven eating. Laboratory experiments have shown that obese people are less rewarded by food than people who are lean. The researchers wanted to know if this held true when people were in a more natural environment. Global obesity rates have risen sharply … Continue reading Obese people enjoy food even less

A research team recently identified the part of the brain that understands social interactions. They found this region is not only sensitive to the presence of interactive behaviour, but also to the contents of interactions. In a study led by Dr Kami Koldewyn, of the Developmental Social Vision Lab at Bangor University, researchers used functional … Continue reading Part of brain that understands social interactions located

Alice Heeroma, a chemistry student at Bangor University, is hoping that her research work will contribute to the fight against sepsis. Bangor University reports Alice Heeroma is studying for a Doctorate in Chemistry with Dr Christopher Gwenin and Dr Leigh Jones at Bangor University. She is in the first year of her research which should … Continue reading Student work to contribute to challenging sepsis

People who have experienced abuse, neglect and other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as living with domestic violence during their childhood are at much greater risk of mental illness throughout life. Bangor University reports a new national study across Wales found adults who had suffered four or more types of ACE were almost ten times … Continue reading Adverse childhood experiences mental health link

Research by Bangor University has found that exercise alone does not lead to weight loss in women, in the medium term. Knowing whether or not exercise causes people to lose weight is tricky. When people take up exercise, they often restrict their diet, consciously or unconsciously, and this can mask the effects of the exercise. … Continue reading Exercise on its own won’t lead to weight loss

Researchers at Bangor University have been exploring the economics of sight saving technology. Over two million people in the UK are living with sight loss. This will double to nearly four million people by 2050 as the population ages and underlying causes like obesity and diabetes increase. This places huge pressure on NHS eye care … Continue reading Exploring the economics of sight saving technology

The Language Technologies Unit (LTU) at Canolfan Bedwyr, Bangor University, has won a grant of £20,000 to develop a programme that will record the voices of people who are in danger of losing their ability to speak because of throat cancer or other health issues, and produce a synthetic naturally sounding version of their own … Continue reading Welsh language voice for people losing their speech

Bangor University has reported that research by its health economists has found that warmer homes can improve the health of social housing tenants and reduce NHS service use. Working with Gentoo housing association and Nottingham City Homes, health economists at Bangor University’s Centre for Health Economics & Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) evaluated the costs and outcomes … Continue reading Housing improvements can lead to health benefits