2024

Keele researchers have found a link between patients prescribed gabapentinoids and a greater risk of ‘adverse events’ such as drug misuse, overdose, and major trauma such as a bone fracture or head injury.

Keele University is among a select group of universities and research institutes who are the first to pledge to make their research as sustainable as possible as part of a new national agreement.

Researchers led by a Keele scientist have studied the previously unknown flight mechanisms of a common crop pest, to learn more about their movements in a bid to improve food security and prevent the spread of disease.

Keele researchers are embarking on an important new study to investigate the challenges deprived communities face when accessing musculoskeletal (MSK) care.

An international research team has discovered previously unknown deposits from an eighth century volcanic eruption in Santorini, which could have major implications for hazard planning around the world.

A Keele researcher has received funding for a project to improve the precision of gene editing technologies used to manage insects that spread disease.

Research from Keele University has been used to help launch a new tool to support people living with Long Covid.

A pioneering study led by a Keele scientist has demonstrated how a single cancer cell can be identified in a sample of blood, paving the way for more personalised and targeted treatments for cancer patients.

A Keele researcher has taken healthcare strategies pioneered in North Staffordshire to help those suffering from osteoarthritis in West Africa.

Research by scientists at Keele University is featured in a new white paper published today that calls for more to be done to stop textile microfibres entering the UK’s waterways from washing laundry.

A researcher working on treatments and therapies for patients with a devastating degenerative condition has received backing from a prestigious charitable organisation.

A research team including Keele’s Dr Helen Wells have highlighted the dangers of hands-free mobile phone use to police, urging them not to recommend it as a “safe alternative” to motorists who are caught using their phones hand-held.

Depression and loneliness can be prevented using structured telephone-based psychological care, delivered over eight weeks, according to new research.

Keele University is to create a new purpose-built insect research laboratory on its campus – where scientists will carry out vital research to tackle the spread of deadly diseases and reduce crop losses to pests in the UK and across the globe.

Future heart attacks could be better prevented in people visiting their GP with unexplained chest pain, after researchers developed the clearest picture yet of the factors that put them at higher risk.

Keele University has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new technologies to support global efforts to control and eliminate malaria.

Researchers at Keele University are carrying out what is thought to be the first study to examine brain activity in babies born with hearing loss as they develop early cognitive skills.

The spectacular explosion of the mine at Hawthorn Ridge – a fortified German front-line position in the First World War – marked the start of the Battle of the Somme, and remains one of the best-known pieces of film from the whole conflict.