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The latest updates from the School of Biosciences.
News from the school
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- A multidisciplinary team of researchers including those working in agriculture, nutrition, socio-economics, geography, and ethics has received more than £4.4m from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help alleviate micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs).
- Date:
- 30/01/2018
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- Original concerns that cloning caused early-onset osteoarthritis (OA) in Dolly the sheep are unfounded, say experts at the University of Nottingham and the University of Glasgow.
- Date:
- 30/01/2018
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- Plant scientists at the University of Nottingham have identified a 'Hawaiian Skirt' gene that plays a critical role in plant growth and development – a discovery that will help improve crop yields and address the growing problem of food security.
- Date:
- 30/01/2018
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- Experts from the UK and Brazil have joined forces to address the challenges and opportunities for agricultural nitrogen science in Florianopolis, Brazil.
- Date:
- 30/01/2018
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- James Wong, the ethnobotanist who describes himself as a plant scientist with a lifelong food fixation, will give a straight-talking guide to making everyday foods healthier and tastier when he visits the University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Campus on Wednesday 13 December 2017.
- Date:
- 30/01/2018
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- Students can diversify their degree course by choosing a language module for credits with the Language Centre.
- Date:
- 09/01/2018
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- HuiQi Yeo, an MRes (Food Science and Engineering) student at the University of Nottingham's Division of Food Sciences, has won the Masters Student of the Year Award at the 2017 EFFoST (European Federation of Food Science and Technology) International Conference in Spain.
- Date:
- 04/12/2017
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- The first student to receive funding under a new partnership between the University of Nottingham and Molson Coors has undertaken a research project that looks to improve the performance of yeast in high gravity brewing.
- Date:
- 13/11/2017
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- When nature turns nasty plants can't run for cover, they have had to evolve to survive what the environment throws at them. Whether that's drought, flooding, saline soils or extreme temperatures, scientists, led by a team at the University of Nottingham, have now discovered that flowering plants have adopted a single biochemical mechanism to sense multiple environmental stresses, that enhances survival.
- Date:
- 13/11/2017
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- When Pipers Crisps — one of Britain's best-known crisp brands — wanted to understand more about the science behind their premium products and processes they turned to food experts at the University of Nottingham.
- Date:
- 05/09/2017