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An amyloid plaque in brain tissue shown by yellow swirls on a black background. Blue lines on the right show where a thin membrane was cut using technology at Leeds.

Pioneering disease research gets major investment boost

University of Leeds has received a grant of £1.1million to enable world leading research into disease.

A close up of a brown eye

Brain implants to restore sight, like Neuralink’s Blindsight, face a fundamental problem − more pixels don’t ensure better vision

Dr Ione Fine, Associate Professor at University of Washington and University of Leeds, writes for the Conversation about the latest technologies in restoring eyesight.

A minke whale swims off the Southern Moray Firth coastline

Clues to conserving our marine mammals are hidden in buckets of seawater

A new study shows how tiny traces of DNA from seawater can provide crucial information about the relationship between marine mammals and key prey species to support their conservation.

Structures of the transmembrane β-barrel proteins designed in this study. In each, different numbers of strands wrap around each other to create barrels with different pore sizes, that can be exploited to create new biosensors.

Unlocking the power of nanopores

Scientists take one step closer to uncovering new sensing technology.

The molecular structure of alzheimers disease

Seeing inside Alzheimer’s disease brain

Scientists investigating Alzheimer’s disease have determined the structure of molecules within a human brain for the very first time.

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