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The Queen Mary study, published today in BMJ Open, found that only 75% of children are receiving the first dose of the MMR vaccine on time, compared to the 95% needed to prevent outbreaks of measles, a highly infectious disease. The…

Bringing together the most up to date resources and using cutting-edge techniques to predict conservation status, the team evaluated the threats facing terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity and looked at future opportunities for…

The symposium created a space to acknowledge and celebrate the ongoing research at different faculties of the University as part of the Crisis and Resilience multidisciplinary (MDT) research theme. Chloe Orkin, Professor of HIV Medicine…

BBC2’s ‘How to Crack the Class Ceiling’ sees Amol Rajan investigate how young people from working class backgrounds can secure jobs in Britain’s most prestigious professions, meeting academic experts on social mobility as well as those…

Over the past 15 years, more than 200 sites in the human genome have been linked to risk for coronary artery disease (CAD), the leading cause of death worldwide. Still, researchers don’t fully understand how those genomic variations alter…

Researchers on Queen Mary’s ‘Stay Home Stories’ project conducted in-depth interviews with people from different religious communities on their experiences during the periods of lockdown and pandemic restrictions. Their findings show how…

The plant Ranunculus is an aquatic member of the buttercup family and is often found in clean gravelly lowland watercourses such as chalk rivers. Water crowfoot is particularly vulnerable to low water flows, pollution and physical loss…

“The more we know about others, the less we make up.”This concept, put forward by Ohio State University Distinguished Professor Donna Y. Ford, is at the root of why the College of Education and Human Ecology prioritizes local and global…

States that restricted access to federal welfare benefits had higher numbers of child neglect victims and more children who were placed in foster care, a new national study found.About 29,000 fewer children may have entered foster care…

Researchers aiming to predict which staph-infection patients might develop a related kidney disease have found a high frequency of gene mutations in the infecting bacteria of affected patients, which suggests these variants may play a…