News - University of Birmingham

Friday 19th April 2013

UK-China collaboration to establish new computational resources for metabolomics

Description: A partnership between the University of Birmingham, BGI, the world's largest genomics organisation, and its open-access journal, GigaScience, has received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to develop a software platform for the analysis of large-scale environmental metabolomics data.
Date:: Friday 19th April 2013
Categories:: International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Tuesday 9th April 2013

Description: 250 years after the creation of the Lunar Society, which brought together leading industrialists, academics and philosophers to debate the biggest issues affecting society, the University of Birmingham is launching an Institute of Advanced Studies with a similar remit.
Date:: Tuesday 9th April 2013
Categories:: Arts and Law, Engineering and Physical Sciences, International, Life and Environmental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Research, Social Sciences

Thursday 28th March 2013

Description: Psychologists at the University of Birmingham suggest that 'attentive eating' affects how much people choose to eat.A paper published recently by the Birmingham team in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition took an overview of research on attentive eating and concluded that encouraging people to eat more attentively could aid appetite control.
Date:: Thursday 28th March 2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences, Research

Description: University of Birmingham scientists are looking for volunteers who have had out-of-body experiences to come forward and be involved in a new study which seeks to identify the scientific causes behind these bizarre phenomena.
Date:: Thursday 28th March 2013
Categories:: Life and Environmental Sciences

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