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24 June 2020

Coronavirus vaccine is ‘not a magic bullet for elderly’ and only has a small chance of being effective

Institute directors Professor Ilaria Bellantuono and Professor Alan Walker point to data surrounding annual flu vaccinations which have only 30 to 40 per cent effectiveness among most at-risk

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17 June 2020

A new resource for behavioural science - developing tools for understanding the relationship between behaviours

A team led by Professor Thomas Webb at the University of Sheffield’s Healthy Lifespan Institute and the Department of Psychology has been awarded £435k from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

4 June 2020

Interactions between hypoxic signalling and anti-inflammatory signalling

Inflammation and hypoxia, a condition where not enough oxygen makes it to the cells and tissues in the body, go hand-in-hand in a variety of age-related diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, stroke and the growth of solid tumours

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9 March 2020

Experts discover toolkit to repair DNA breaks associated with ageing, cancer and Motor Neurone Disease

A new ‘toolkit’ to repair damaged DNA that can lead to ageing, cancer and Motor Neurone Disease (MND) has been discovered by scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford

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