Cancer plot twist? 400 DNA ‘blind spots’ could be next chapter in battle, claim Manchester scientists
Manchester Cancer Research scientists discover more than 400 ‘blind spots’ in DNA, which could hide cancer-causing gene faults
Imitating The Imitation Game: Manchester Uni scientist on following in Turing’s footsteps
Manchester University Artificial Intelligence expert Dr Steve Furber speaks to MM about his work and parallels with that of controversial British hero Alan Turing, following the release of Benedict Cumberbatch’s The Imitation Game
Calling all Cumberbatch fans! Manchester Uni launch hunt for Turing’s treasure to mark Imitation Game release
The University of Manchester is launching an online brain-teaser, that leads to a possible location of Alan Turing’s legendary buried treasure, to coincide with the release of Benedict Cumberbatch’s upcoming film The Imitation Game
Ebola ‘harder to catch than you think’, Manchester expert assures UK
Fear is spreading after deadly Ebola virus is contracted in Madrid, Spain, in the first case outside West Africa but the risk of the disease reaching Britain is very small, says University of Manchester expert
Stats good, action better: Scientists alone can’t battle climate change, warn Manchester experts
Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from the University of Manchester detailed how further discussions must take place on ways in which our world can be preserved
Student ‘dissatisfaction’ sees Manchester Uni slump two places in Times league table
Lancaster pipped The University of Manchester to the crown of the best university in the North West region, according to The Times and The Sunday Times annual Good University Guide 2015.
Meet Masha the baby mammoth! 42,000-year-old Siberian exhibit comes to Manchester Museum
Masha, on loan from the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a rare specimen and is preserved in permafrost.
Towering 326-room hotel will create ‘most modern campus in the world’, promise Manchester University
A £1billion Campus Masterplan by the University of Manchester has taken its next step – by signing a deal to develop a 326-room hotel on its Oxford Road campus.
Battle against lung cancer: Manchester’s leading researchers unite with capital to unlock disease’s secrets
Cancer Research UK is bringing together leading researchers from the University of Manchester and London in a ground-breaking Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence that launched yesterday.
Manchester students at risk of violent or sexual assault more than anywhere outside London, says study
Using official police data, the Complete University Guide assessed the three different types of crime which it says students are most likely to fall victim of – burglary, sexual and violent crimes and robbery
Child antibiotic use leads to TWICE the chance of developing asthma, finds Manchester University study
Children who are exposed to antibiotics before the age of one are more than twice as likely to develop asthma claims new research from the University of Manchester.