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Produced as a follow-up to the 2011 report, The Health Impacts of Cold Homes and Fuel Poverty*, the new analysis used data from the government’s English Housing Survey and found that 9.6 million UK households are currently living in poorly…

The compound, pantetheine, is the active fragment of Coenzyme A. It is important for metabolism - the chemical processes that maintain life. Earlier studies failed to synthesise pantetheine effectively, leading to suggestions that it was…

The study, published in Anaesthesia, aimed to characterise the incidence and epidemiology of postoperative complications in children undergoing appendicectomy in the UK. Appendicectomy, the removal of the appendix, is a common surgical…

The international study observed that in eyes with sight loss caused by a particular genetic mutation, known to cause eye diseases that lead to blindness, gut bacteria were found within the damaged areas of the eye. The authors of the…

White dwarfs are glowing embers of stars that have burned through all their hydrogen fuel. Nearly all stars, including the Sun, will eventually become white dwarfs. For the new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the…

The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, found that an electrocardiographic imaging (ECGI) vest, developed by Dr Gaby Captur at UCL, could detect electrical changes associated with an inherited heart muscle…

For the two papers, published in The Lancet Oncology and part-funded by Cancer Research UK, an international team of researchers examined data from over 780,000 people with cancer diagnosed between 2012 and 2017 in four comparable countries…

The study, published in Nature Communications, was conducted as part of PANORAMIC, an ongoing clinical trial evaluating potential treatments for COVID-19. In this virology sub-study, the researchers analysed viral samples provided by 577…

The goal is to broaden responsible investment options so that invested university funds aren’t used to finance companies that are constructing new fossil fuel infrastructure. The coalition is led by the University of Cambridge and made…

The research, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, is the most up-to-date study of its kind, providing a meta-analysis of 30 studies involving 3,501 women who were going through the menopause in 14 countries, including the UK,…