Literary masterpieces and other educational activities feature in EU-funded efforts to help displaced young people feel at home across the continent. By Sofía Manzanaro Bilal Almobarak knows a good deal about stress and threats to wellbeing faced by refugees. Almobarak fled the Syrian civil war in 2015 and ended up in Sweden, where he now … Read more
By harnessing unusual allies, pioneering cancer treatments could reduce the need for invasive surgery and save lives. By Tereza Pultarova Dr Marta Alonso, a Spanish biomedical researcher, developed an interest in paediatric brain tumours during a traineeship in the US state of Texas. Alonso had a chance encounter in 2007 at the MD Anderson Cancer … Read more
Millions of people in Europe and elsewhere suffer degeneration of joint cartilage in the knee, driving EU research into better treatments. By Michael Allen Beyond making a tray of sushi rolls delectable, the potential uses of seaweed are growing fast amid discoveries that it may do everything from improve diets to ease bowel disease. Now seaweed … Read more
Marijuana shows promise in treating illnesses ranging from depression and addiction to arthritis and epilepsy. By Vittoria D’Alessio Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her epilepsy. The seizures that had started two years earlier were affecting her ability to function and, while she’d excelled at school until her diagnosis, her … Read more
EU researchers are examining how bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms could boost the health of both plants and animals. By Gareth Willmer When Professor Tom Gilbert and his colleagues were researching how different diets affect chickens in 2019, something strange happened: one batch of chicks grew much more slowly than in two previous trials. And … Read more
EU researchers are looking for new ways to tackle bloodstream infections that kill millions of people worldwide every year. By Michael Allen Professor Evangelos Giamarellos-Bourboulis has spent the past 18 years investigating a new way to treat sepsis – a medical condition that kills an estimated 11 million people worldwide every year. That’s almost a fifth … Read more