Case studies

Scientists need to better understand what goes wrong in the developing brain to find new treatments for epilepsy – freshwater minnows are vital to their work.

Mouse blood pressure measurements aid our understanding of how early-life environment and genetics are translated into later life health.

Researchers in the Department of Physics are exploring the electrical workings of nerves and how they can make the drugs of tomorrow safer and more effective.

New research from the Milner Centre for Evolution shows how flowering plants survived one of the biggest mass extinction events in history.

Researchers in the Department of Physics are exploring how to make UV LEDs cheaper, brighter and more efficient for low-cost cleaning and disinfection.

Together with physicians in the USA our researchers developed a new tool that surgeons can use to decide whether surgery for cleft lip is advisable and safe.

By establishing better 'stopping rules' for the clinical trials, mathematicians at the University have made clinical trials faster and more efficient.

Read how mathematicians at the University have helped Institut Français du Petrole Energies Nouvelles achieved a ten-fold increase in oil flow simulation.

In collaboration with the Met Office, mathematicians at the University have developed adaptive numerical methods to improve the accuracy of weather forecasting.

With plastic pollution among our most urgent environmental issues, creating easily degradable polymers is one of the hottest topics in materials chemistry.