University of Bristol

Purespring Therapeutics has become the first company to successfully treat kidney disease models by directly targeting the podocyte – a specialised cell implicated in approximately 60% of renal diseases.  The company has developed a…

Self-harm is not a psychiatric diagnosis; it is a behaviour shaped by society, culture, and individual factors. The social determinants of health, particularly poverty, heavily influence the distribution of self-harm within communities.…

More than 100 experts, including climate scientists, flood impact modellers, operational meteorologists, risk management practitioners, and community representatives, will convene in Malawi to share knowledge and prioritise…

The University of Bristol is one of six universities in the SETsquared partnership teaming up with leading regional investment firm QantX to launch a new £300m spin-out focused investment vehicle. The new investment vehicle aims to…

The University of Bristol is set to play a major role in a series of new hubs being launched to ensure the UK fully benefits from the potential of quantum technologies in areas ranging from healthcare to national security.…

A new virtual production stage which uses computer generated imagery (CGI) to help create imagined worlds, will be installed alongside a one-of-a-kind Smart Cinema that can measure what the audience is feeling. The University of…

Significant strides in addressing the issue of AI 'hallucinations' and improving the reliability of anomaly detection algorithms in Critical National Infrastructures (CNI) have been made by scientists based in the University's of Bristol’s…

A new study involving nearly the whole adult population of England has found that the incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination than before or without vaccination. The research, involving University of…

A new model to predict the risk of serious complications after shoulder replacement surgery has been developed in a collaboration between researchers from the Universities of Oxford, Bristol, and Copenhagen. The model, published in The…

Nearly nine months of joint replacement surgery has been lost - around 160,000 fewer operations – since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by the University of Bristol has found. The research suggests returning to…