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2-May-2018 4:05 AM EDT
Queen’s Researchers Explore the Anglo-Saxons Knowledge of the Skies and Quest for the ‘Undiscovered’ Planet Nine Through Interactive Exhibition
Queen's University Belfast

Academics from Queen’s University Belfast will host a new, interactive exhibition ‘Marvelling at the Skies: Anglo-Saxon Comets and the Quest for Planet 9’, exploring mankind’s understanding of the cosmos in the Middle Ages, and whether it provides further clues on the whereabouts of ‘Planet Nine’.

2-May-2018 7:05 PM EDT
Queen’s Researchers Launch Exhibition Exploring the Anglo-Saxons Knowledge of the Skies and the Undiscovered ‘Planet Nine’
Queen's University Belfast

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have launched a new, interactive exhibition exploring the Anglo-Saxons understanding of the cosmos in the Middle Ages, and whether it may provide further clues on the whereabouts of the hypothetical ‘Planet Nine’.

   
Released: 25-Apr-2018 4:05 AM EDT
Queen’s University Belfast Researchers Make Significant Discovery Around How Inflammation Works
Queen's University Belfast

A research team from Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with an international team of experts, have made ground-breaking insights into how inflammatory diseases work.

Released: 24-Apr-2018 10:05 AM EDT
New Keysight Millimeter-Wave Research Lab Opened at Queen’s University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast

A new millimeter-wave research lab has been opened by Keysight Technologies, Inc. , in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast.

   
Released: 16-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT
Children’s Writing Fellow and Children’s Laureate co-host creative writing extravaganza at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace
Queen's University Belfast

Myra Zepf, the Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland, based at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast and supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and PJ Lynch Laureate na nÓg, hosted a creative writing and illustration celebratory event for 150 school children from across Northern Ireland today (Monday 16 April) at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace.

Released: 29-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Queen’s University Porous Liquid Discovery Leads to New Spin Out Company
Queen's University Belfast

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast who invented a liquid that can dissolve remarkably large amounts of gas, have launched a new spin out company Porous Liquid Technologies Ltd.

Released: 29-Mar-2018 10:05 AM EDT
Queen’s University Belfast First to Transform the Way Discovery is Translated into Patient Care
Queen's University Belfast

For every 100 occasions that scientists across the world announce a discovery that can have significant impact in patient care, less than 1 makes it into a product that is eventually useful for patients in our healthcare service. The £10million Queen’s University Belfast Centre of Excellence in Precision Medicine (PMC) aims to change this by making the translation of discovery into clinical care faster, more targeted and more efficient in predicting a cancer patients’ response to treatment.

Released: 21-Mar-2018 8:05 AM EDT
Researchers at Queen’s Lead ‘Personalised Medicine’ Approach to Improve Quality of Life for Bowel Cancer Patients
Queen's University Belfast

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have demonstrated for the first time how molecular analysis of clinical trial biopsy samples can be used to help clinicians identify the key changes that occur in an individual patient’s bowel (colorectal) tumour prior to surgery, so clinicians can better understand and treat the disease.

Released: 16-Mar-2018 8:00 PM EDT
Researchers Add 700 Years to Malta’s History
Queen's University Belfast

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered that the first people to inhabit Malta arrived 700 years earlier than history books indicate.

12-Mar-2018 2:00 PM EDT
Queen’s Researcher Develops Interactive Map Which Shows How the Irish Potato Famine Transformed Ireland
Queen's University Belfast

A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast has developed an interactive map of the island of Ireland which shows the impact the Great Irish Famine had on the population during the nineteenth century.

   
Released: 13-Mar-2018 9:05 AM EDT
Release of the Cancer Incidence and Survival Statistics for Northern Ireland 2012-2016
Queen's University Belfast

The Queen’s University N. Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) today released the number of new cancer cases diagnosed (incidence) in Northern Ireland in 2016. Legislation designating the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR) as an official producer of statistics came into place 01 April 2012. Website available at: www.qub.ac.uk/nicr.

   
Released: 6-Mar-2018 4:05 AM EST
Scientists Crack 70-Year-Old Mystery of How Magnetic Waves Heat the Sun
Queen's University Belfast

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.

Released: 15-Feb-2018 8:05 AM EST
Queen’s University Announces Novel Drug Delivery System with Potential to Reduce Rates of HIV
Queen's University Belfast

Queen’s University Belfast is playing a central role in an international consortium that has announced the development of a patch delivery system which will lower the chances of infection for those at very high risk of HIV.

Released: 7-Feb-2018 6:05 AM EST
Queen’s Research Suggests the Sicilian Mafia Arose to Power From Lemon Sales in the 1800s
Queen's University Belfast

Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration the University of Manchester and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), have uncovered new evidence to suggest that the Sicilian mafia arose to notoriety in the 1800s in response to the public demand for citrus fruits.

Released: 31-Jan-2018 4:05 AM EST
Scientists Join International Research Team in Discovery That Could Improve HD TV
Queen's University Belfast

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast have been working as part of an international team to develop a new process, which could lead to a new generation of high-definition (HD), paving the way for brighter, lighter and more energy efficient TVs and smart devices.

Released: 24-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
Queen’s University Belfast Announces Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows
Queen's University Belfast

The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast has announced the appointment of Jo Baker, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Peter Wilson, who performs as Duke Special, as the first Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows.

Released: 19-Jan-2018 9:05 AM EST
Queen’s University Scientist Helps Uncover Secret of Mass Mortality Event in Remote Steppe Grassland of Central Asia
Queen's University Belfast

Professor Eric Morgan, a Professor at the Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, along with an interdisciplinary, international research team has investigated the sudden death of over 200,000 saiga antelopes (more than 80% of the affected population and more than 60% of the global population of this species) in Kazakhstan in May 2015, which left the world baffled.

16-Jan-2018 6:30 AM EST
Groundbreaking Experiment Will Test the Limits of Quantum Theory
Queen's University Belfast

Scientists from three UK universities are to test one of the fundamental laws of physics as part of a major Europe-wide project awarded more than £3m in funding.

Released: 11-Jan-2018 10:05 AM EST
Researcher from Queen’s University Publishes Groundbreaking Plan to End Bowel Cancer
Queen's University Belfast

A groundbreaking report, led by Professor Mark Lawler, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics at Queen’s University Belfast highlights a plan to end bowel cancer, the second most common cause of cancer death in Europe. The report has been published in the January edition of top international journal Gut (http://gut.bmj.com/).

Released: 8-Jan-2018 9:10 AM EST
Queen’s University Professor’s Skin Patch Offers Solution to Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
Queen's University Belfast

A team of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, led by Professor Ryan Donnelly, Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology are developing a new type of skin patch (microarray patch) that administers drugs directly into the bloodstream through thousands of individual “microneedles” which are being tested as a possible answer to the antibiotic resistance crisis.



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