New research has found treating an infected hip replacement in a single stage procedure may be as effective or better than the widely used two stage procedure. To date no well designed study has compared these procedures head to head to decide if one is better or if they achieve the same results. Hip replacement … Continue reading The best way to treat infected hip replacements

Three quarters of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cases have their origins in poor lung function pathways beginning in childhood. These pathways are associated with exposures in childhood, and amplified by factors in adulthood, according to a cohort study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. In the first study, the University of Bristol reports 2,438 … Continue reading 75% of COPD cases linked to childhood risk factors

Better timing for cortisol replacement therapies, to more closely replicate the secretion patterns of people with normal levels of the hormone, has shown a significant improvement in cognitive function in a new trial led by University of Bristol scientists including Professor Stafford Lightman and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). … Continue reading Well timed cortisol replacement therapy improves memory

A scientific team led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, supported by scientists from the University of Bristol, has demonstrated that the predictive function of the human language system may operate differently than the field has come to believe in the last decade. Dr Mante Nieuwland, Cognitive Neuroscientist at the Max … Continue reading Study challenges evidence for proactive reading brain

For the first time, the history charting the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, has been made accessible. The work, made possible thanks to a Wellcome grant and a dedicated team of archivists from the University of Bristol’s Special Collections, will mean that researchers can now … Continue reading History of the Children of the 90s available to researchers

There should be a rethink in how doctors talk to some patients with reduced kidney health, replacing the term chronic kidney disease (CKD) with different bands of kidney age, according to a group of experts writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The University of Bristol reports its researchers, along with colleagues from the Universities … Continue reading Kidney age, not kidney disease

Scientists at the University of Bristol are to study how stopping Porcupine, a protein named after the spiky rodent, could improve heart surgery. The University of Bristol reports Professor Sarah George has been awarded £140,000 by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to investigate if blocking the protein could help people who are having heart bypass … Continue reading Stopping Porcupine could improve heart surgery

A new University of Bristol study, which identifies how acetylcholine impacts learning and memory by acting at different receptors, could prove significant in the drive to develop more targeted and effective therapies for dementia. Currently, the main treatments for Alzheimer’s disease are drugs that increase levels of acetylcholine in the brain. The University of Bristol … Continue reading Study could lead to more effective therapies for dementia

A team of student biologists have been selected to take part in the European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office Spin Your Thesis! 2018 programme, which will take place in the Netherlands in September. The University of Bristol reports the team, called Bristol Bone Biologists, are one of two student teams to have been chosen to … Continue reading Bristol Bone Biologists in hypergravity competition

Dr David Tew, Director, Advanced Manufacturing Technology and GSK Senior Fellow at GlaxoSmithKline, will join the University of Bristol as a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence from September 2018. The appointment was announced on March 20th at the Royal Society’s annual Labs to Riches dinner. The University of Bristol reports David Tew has over thirty … Continue reading Bristol’s new Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence