January

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.