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Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that claims over 1.5 million lives each year. The increase in TB cases that are resistant to the current antibiotics means that novel drugs to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are urgently needed. Researchers from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ have successfully discovered how Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses an essential sugar called trehalose, which provides a platform to design new and improved TB drugs and diagnostic agents.

Like many UK universities the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ was brought into being by a Royal Charter of Incorporation, ours being issued by Her Majesty the Queen. We join today with so many other organisations and individuals in expressing our sorrow at the death of her beloved husband His Royal Highness Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh.

Astronomers have found evidence that the first exoplanet that was identified transiting its star could have migrated to a close orbit with its star from its original birthplace further away.

ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ’s University Challenge team has won the 2021 University Challenge Grand Final.

Intermittent auscultation, in which the baby’s heartbeat is monitored using a sonic aid or Doppler probe, outperforms more modern methods at reducing the number of emergency caesarean sections in labour, according to a new study led by researchers from the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ.

Researchers have been awarded funding to work with a global leader in the speciality chemicals industry to create cleaner and greener chemical processing methods for everyday products in a bid to help the government meet its carbon neutral targets.