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‘Medieval Glastonbury’ to focus on climates: IMC 2021

Published
Thursday 25th February, 2021
Categories
Arts & Culture

The International Medieval Congress (IMC), one of the biggest academic conferences taking place online in the world this year, is to take climates as its theme.

A nematode worm under magnification. The image is courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Collection.

Mapping the brain of a nematode worm

Published
Wednesday 24th February, 2021
Categories
Global
Technology
Science

Researchers have mapped the physical organisation of the brain of a soil-living nematode worm, creating a new model for the architecture of the animal’s brain.

Professor Richard Hall from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, sitting in his lab, in front of a machine that physically tests artificial joints.

Engineering longer-lasting artificial joints

Published
Monday 22nd February, 2021
Categories
Working with business
Health
Be Curious

A £4 million research project will develop a new generation of artificial joints that last longer, produce fewer side effects and are better suited for younger people.

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Benefits system needs to be made simpler and fairer

Published
Monday 22nd February, 2021
Categories
Coronavirus
Business & Economy
Society & Politics

The benefits system needs to change in order to properly support claimants during and after COVID-19, a major national research project has concluded.

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Pore-like proteins designed from scratch

Published
Thursday 18th February, 2021
Categories
Technology
Science

Scientists at Leeds are part of an international collaboration that has designed a protein that self-assembles into an artificial pore.

Circular strands of DNA. Superimposed on them is the double helix structure of the molecule.

Visualisation of 'dancing DNA'

Published
Tuesday 16th February, 2021
Categories
Science

Videos showing for the first time how small circles of DNA adopt dance-like movements inside a cell have been developed by researchers in Yorkshire.