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Medical Bioinformatics: Science Minister David Willetts announces £32 million towards improving data research
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts will announce today at the High Performance Computing and Big Data Conference that the MRC has invested £32 million, to improve capability, capacity and capital infrastructure in medical bioinformatics. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - February 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Success for trial of peanut allergy therapy
A new therapy for peanut allergy has been successful in the majority of the 99 children who took part in a trial conducted by researchers at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, UK. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

What makes us human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers
Oxford University researchers funded by the Medical Research Council have identified an area of the human brain that appears unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Virtually lowering a persons height heightens feelings of mistrust
A study funded by the Medical Research Council shows that, in those who are prone to having mistrustful thoughts, experiencing a social situation from a lower height can make people feel more inferior and excessively mistrustful. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit opens in Cambridge
A £10.8m new university research facility, the Medical Research Council (MRC) Metabolic Disease Unit, was officially and jointly opened at the University of Cambridge John Savill, and Director of the Wellcome Trust, Dr Jeremy Farrar. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 23, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Branching for food: how nutrients remodel fruit fly vessels
New research from the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre suggests that nutrients in the diet may play a role in changing the architecture of blood vessels in the gut and other organs. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Branching for food: how nutrients remodel the fly circulatory system
New research from the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre suggests that nutrients in the diet may play a role in changing the architecture of blood vessels in the gut and other organs. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 16, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Higher vitamin D levels in pregnancy could help babies become stronger
Children are likely to have stronger muscles if their mothers had a higher level of vitamin D in their body during pregnancy. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 3, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New Years Honours 2014
Congratulations to the following MRC-associated people whose achievements were recognised in the 2014 New Years Honours list. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - January 2, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Researchers identify variation in gene PLD3 can increase risk of late-onset Alzheimers disease
A new study, part-funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wellcome Trust and Alzheimers Research UK, has shown that a fault in a gene called phospholipase D3 (PLD3) can contribute to the overproduction of amyloid-beta in the brain. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Redirecting the rules of attraction in fruit flies
Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology have discovered a biological switch that determines which part of the fruit flys brain responds to pheromones, depending on whether the fruit fly is male or female. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New director roles for the MRC in Africa
Professor Umberto DAlessandro has been appointed Director of the MRC Unit in The Gambia. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative - queries over the Christmas break
A frequently asked questions guide is now available. Applicants with urgent queries not addressed in the FAQ may contact 07500 952 942 (call or text) for advice over the Christmas break when Head Office is closed. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The nations hearing has it all gone a bit Pete Tong?
The MRC has awarded grants to three new projects under the second Economic Impact Call in order to better understand the link between medical research and its economic and societal impacts. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The nations hearing has it all gone a bit Pete Tong? MRC researchers ask the public to help them find out if loud music is contributing to hearing loss
The MRC has awarded grants to three new projects under the second Economic Impact Call in order to better understand the link between medical research and its economic and societal impacts. (Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases)
Source: Medical Research Council Press Releases - December 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news