Press Releases
Making science crystal clear – Warwick’s Science Gala welcomes public next week
Fancy learning how to grow a crystal, make lightening or dance like a sound wave? Youngsters with a passion for science will be able to enjoy some real-life experiments at the University of Warwick’s Science Gala next week.
Schizophrenia can be caused by structural abnormality in adolescent brain associated with genetic risk
Schizophrenia could be caused by a genetic mutation that causes a structural abnormality in the brain during adolescence. Therefore testing for the gene SLC39A8, and brain scans for schizophrenia could predict whether or not someone will develop it - researchers at the University of Warwick have found.
Discovered: different brain areas linked to smoking and drinking
Academics at the University of Warwick have found that low functional connectivity of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex that is associated with the tendency to smoke is associated with increased impulsiveness - which may contribute to the tendency to smoke. The high connectivity of the reward-related medial orbitofrontal cortex in drinkers may increase the tendency to be attracted to the reward of alcohol consumption.
The University of Warwick and Turing collaborate to bring international summer fellowship opportunity to the UK
The 2019 edition of the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Summer Fellowship will feature a new international site in the UK - the University of Warwick, through a collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute and the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The seventh year of DSSG, taking place in Summer 2019 is now accepting applications for prospective fellows, technical mentors, project managers, and project partners.
Warwick awarded £2.3 million to help develop cutting-edge technologies for cancer diagnosis and personalised treatment
Greg Clark, UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), will confirm today (Tuesday 6 November) that UK Research and Innovation will invest £10 million in the PathLAKE project as part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund. The University of Warwick has been awarded £2.3 million of the funding which will be used to create innovative solutions in digital pathology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to speed up the time in which cancer is diagnosed and treated.
Retool AI to forecast and limit wars
Artificial Intelligence could be used to predict outburst of violence and probe their causes saving lives and billions of dollars across the world according to a panel of experts, including Dr Weisi Guo of the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick