University of Manchester

The employment of non-medical staff with clinical roles in primary care has been linked to negative impacts on patient satisfaction in a study by University of Manchester researchers.The analysis of 6,296 English general practices between…

Doctors could one day diagnose and characterise early stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with a simple blood test thanks to a transatlantic study led by CRUK Manchester Institute Cancer Biomarker Centre researchers at the University of…

A study by University of Manchester neuroscientists into the effect of surprise on our memory has inadvertently discovered a method which might help us to perform better in exams.In the study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, 26…

In 2021, more babies – 51% – were born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales than to those in a marriage or civil partnership for the first time since records began in 1845. This is a huge change. For centuries, “illegitimacy” and…

Healthcare professionals may be unconsciously assigning lower clinical priority to patients from poorer areas compared to patients who live in more affluent areas, a study of English Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments by The…

‘Tales From The Future’, a beer made in a recent collaboration between researchers at The University of Manchester and Cloudwater Brew Co., will launch at the end of August 2022. The beer is uniquely brewed using a novel strain of yeast,…

Recent research regarding a dinosaur nicknamed April which previously called Manchester Museum home has revealed rare new findings.Scientists made the discovery of gastroliths (stomach stones) inside the Tenontosaurus which is unusually…

Experts from The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute - the largest and most advanced nuclear research capability in UK academia - have called on the government to do more to support the advancement of the UK’s nuclear…

The University of Manchester has been ranked at number 38 in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which ranks the world’s leading higher education institutions. The annual rankings see Manchester retain its top ten…

Record temperatures and dry weather in the UK this summer are causing exceptionally high levels of danger from extreme wildfires, according to experts. The UK Fire Danger Rating System project team - led by The University of Manchester’s…