The reimagined space at the historic, listed buildings, 38 – 40 University Road and 3 Mount Charles, will be just a short walk from the main Lanyon Building at the heart of the Queen’s campus. The new venue represents the next chapter for the Centre, whose original building was opened at a ceremony attended by […]
Experiments at Harper Adams University have shown sunflower oil could replace costly treatments to battle water loss in plants – with potential implications for drought-hit countries worldwide. Results from the experiments, conducted in the Harper Adams glasshouse, have been published online in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. They assessed the use […]
This groundbreaking discovery sheds light on how these mechanisms might be disrupted in certain developmental and metabolic disorders including vitamin-B related conditions. The findings could open new avenues for regenerative medicine and potential therapeutic interventions in patients with rare genetic conditions, including newborns affected by conditions like homocystinuria. The research has been published in the […]
The report is one of two being launched today (Thursday 7 September) commissioned by the Executive Office. The Queen’s report was led by Dr Siobhán McAlister, Professor Dirk Schubotz and Dr Michelle Templeton from the Centre for Children’s Rights at Queen’s University and Dr Gail Neill from Ulster University. The findings were based on 268 […]
Professor Miguel A. Valvano, Chair in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine (WWIEM) at Queen’s University Belfast and lead researcher on the study, explains: “Achromobacter bacteria can cause chronic and potentially severe infections. However, until now, how this opportunistic bacterium interacts with the human immune system has been poorly understood. […]
As researchers around the world race against time to develop new strategies and technologies to fight climate change, a team of scientists at the University of Houston is exploring one possible way to directly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment: Negative emissions technologies (NETs). Mim Rahimi, assistant professor of environmental engineering at […]
People with vivid imaginations are more likely than others to believe they truly inhabit the worlds they visit in virtual reality (VR) according to new research led by the University of Bath. This finding, published at this year’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems – the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) […]
With the subject more in the public eye than ever before, you might assume transgender people’s quest for rights would be gaining significant support across the country. Not so, reveals a survey conducted in three southwestern and western states, and released today. “While we expected restrictive responses from conservative Texas and moderate Arizona, it was […]
