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Academics within our Biosciences department have come up with an ingenious solution to the challenges of blended learning, by designing a ‘Home Lab’ kit that first year Biosciences students can use at home.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/11/home-lab-kits-provided-to-bioscience-students-to-support-blended-learning

Researchers studying ancient wall paintings in a Tibetan Buddhist cave temple in north west China made a surprising discovery, when they uncovered a prayer written in Sanskrit which they believe may have been accidentally pasted onto the ceiling upside down by workers more than 700 years ago.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/11/scientists-reveal-700-year-old-caves-hidden-secrets

Dr Mohsen Rahmani, part of the Department of Engineering in NTU’s School of Science and Technology, has been awarded a £250,000 Wolfson Fellowship

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/11/ntu-awarded-prestigious-royal-society-wolfson-fellowship

A new antiviral facemask which uses nanotechnology to kill viruses including COVID-19 and influenza has been designed and developed by a Nottingham Trent University scientist.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/11/scientists-develop-facemask-which-can-kill-viruses-on-contact

Dr Mohsen Rahmani in the Department of Engineering in NTU’s School of Science and Technology has been awarded a £1.2 million Future Leaders Fellowship

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/10/ntu-awarded-future-leaders-fellowship-by-uk-research-and-innovation

Nano delivery of mineral supplements in poultry diets leads to improved bird growth, feed consumption and digestibility, a new study has found.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/09/nano-minerals-in-poultry-feed-can-improve-broiler-growth,-study-shows

Rachel Stubbington, Associate Professor in Ecology and Environmental Sciences in our School of Science and Technology, has been elected as a Fellow of the Freshwater Biological Association (FBA).

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/09/associate-professor-recognised-for-scientific-excellence-by-freshwater-biological-association

Scientists at the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University are to begin clinical trials for a DNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/08/funding-will-allow-clinical-trials-for-covid-19-vaccine-to-begin-in-nottingham

Scientists have identified a gene which if present in certain breast cancer patients indicates how they will respond to specific therapies.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/08/gene-could-guide-better-treatment-of-most-common-breast-cancer

A new blood test developed by scientists and clinicians is able to detect the presence of prostate cancer and confirm how advanced it is.

ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2020/07/new-blood-test-can-confirm-prostate-cancer-and-what-stage-it-is-at