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New game explores how social behaviour changes disease spread

12 March, 2025

A new game has been designed to understand how people's social networks and decision-making…

Principal visit to Gujarat Biotechnology University

28 February, 2025

Prof. Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, visited…

Prerna Vohra awarded BBSRC funding to investigate Salmonella

12 February, 2025

The University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with the Quadram Institute, has been awarded funding…

Researchers receive NERC grants pioneering environmental research

12 February, 2025

Four researchers from the School of Biological Sciences have received Natural Environment Research…

Experts examine DNA changes that shaped life on Earth

12 February, 2025

Four-year collaborative project seeks to understand key process linked to evolution.

Exhibition puts spotlight on diseases affecting 1.5 billion people

30 January, 2025

Edinburgh global health experts are seeking to catalyse action to combat preventable diseases that…

Gujarat Biotechnology University celebrates its first graduation ceremony

06 January, 2025

In October 2024, Gujarat Biotechnology University (GBU) celebrated its first cohort of 26 students…

Genes linked to deadly parasites’ spread beyond Africa identified

19 December, 2024

Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native…

New spinout Concinnity Genetics raises £3m for gene control systems for advanced therapeutics

15 December, 2024

Gene control company Concinnity Genetics, recently spun out of the University of Edinburgh, has…

Stephen Wallace awarded European Research Council grant

03 December, 2024

Professor Stephen Wallace is the recipient of a €2M European grant for a project that will help to…