Press releases

Actiphage®, is a rapid, accurate test for bovine tuberculosis (bTB) that would enable farmers to effectively remove this devastating disease from their herds. PBD Biotech has secured a £2.3m investment to take Actiphage through to validation by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Full validation will enable international adoption of this novel, patented, diagnostic for mycobacterial diseases, which include human tuberculosis and Johne’s Disease.

Autistic students at the University of Nottingham are featured in a series of short videos released to improve the understanding and acceptance of autism.

The reason women are more prone to sports injuries has more to do with the social constructs around gender, and the subsequent gendered environment, than female biology, experts argue in a new paper in the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM).

The University of Nottingham has been awarded a share of the £28.5m award by Driving the Electric Revolution part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to invest in new equipment to support innovative manufacturing processes for advanced electrical machines and drives which will support the UK’s net zero ambitions.

The national roll-out of a police requirement to record data on hate crimes motivated by misogyny has been welcomed by a pioneering team of campaigning researchers at Nottingham’s two universities and the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Paddy Tipping.

Professor Harminder Singh Dua CBE, from the University of Nottingham, has been appointed as High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.

Training the next generation of plant scientists in using Artificial Intelligence to measure the structure and function of plants has been given a boost with new funding.

An international research team has demonstrated for the first time that climate change caused by humans is responsible for changes in river flow worldwide.