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Teenagers aged 12 to 15 are invited to take part in research to track their mental health alongside their social interactions. The findings will help to uncover how online communication and the influence of the digital world affects…

A £20 million 10-year funding agreement has been struck to support the work of Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, based at the University of Edinburgh. Childlight has been providing fresh insights into the nature of the growing…

The Community Access to Rooms initiative enables community groups to hire a range of University spaces at no cost when they are not in use for learning, teaching and research. The scheme has been established to help local groups hold…

Higher rates of stroke, blood clots, heart attack, heart failure, broken bones, pneumonia, and acute kidney injury were seen in dementia patients given the drugs, compared with those who were not, data gathered over two decades suggests.…

Now experts hope to foster a fresh appreciation of a nobleman’s 18th-century improvement plan, which introduced elements of Louis XIV’s Versailles to the Clackmannanshire countryside. A specialist team has begun the first-ever survey of…

The investment will launch a spinout company from the Universities of Edinburgh and Bath, named Prothea Technologies Ltd, which is developing technologies to ‘see and treat’ diseased tissue in a single procedure. The team behind Prothea…

The funding from Cancer Research UK will train early career clinician scientists – doctors who also carry out medical research – as part of its Clinical Academic Training Programme.  The programme will invest £58.7m across nine research…

Teenagers aged 12 to 15 are invited to take part in research to track their mental health alongside their social interactions. The findings will help to uncover how online communication and the influence of the digital world affects…

A £20 million 10-year funding agreement has been struck to support the work of Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, based at the University of Edinburgh. Childlight has been providing fresh insights into the nature of the growing…

The method can detect the disease in brain tissue before symptoms appear – potentially enabling faster intervention and treatment, scientists say. The tool, which makes use of small biological molecules, known as aptamers, could trigger…