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Professors Francisca Mutapi and Alexandra Rowe become Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows

15 April, 2020

Professors Francisca Mutapi and Alexandra Rowe have been named as Royal Society of Edinburgh…

Blue tit diet study reveals all they can eat is quite a feast

14 April, 2020

They are famed for feasting on bird tables and coaxing cream from milk bottles ... now research…

PhD students rise to the challenge of Covid-19

14 April, 2020

School of Biological Sciences Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Hosts, Pathogens…

David Tollervey and Sara Macias to participate in EMBL Twinning Project

06 April, 2020

David Tollervey, from the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Sara Macias from the Institute of…

Experts play key role in bid to curb Covid-19

03 April, 2020

Researchers from across the University are rallying to support global efforts to combat the…

University fast-tracks innovation to battle Covid-19

03 April, 2020

Edinburgh researchers are joining forces with commercial companies to quickly develop new…

Experts appointed to Covid-19 advisory group

02 April, 2020

Four Edinburgh researchers have joined a group providing expert advice to the Scottish Government…

UK launches £20m whole genome sequence alliance to map spread of coronavirus

24 March, 2020

A team of academics at the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian are part of national consortium…

Harnessing nature’s protein glue could aid medicine and industry

23 March, 2020

A new protein production technique could speed up vaccine development and lead to high-tech…

Baldness gene discovery reveals origin of hairy alpine plants

27 February, 2020

Scientists have solved a puzzle that has long baffled botanists – why some plants on high…