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This area contains news from the University since October 2020. For stories from 2010 to October 2020, use the 'News archive' above or search at the top of the page.
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Off the Shelf Festival of Words, one of the longest running literary festivals in the UK, returns to Sheffield for a packed 35th edition this autumn

Literary giants, olympic legends and TV stars heading to Sheffield as Off the Shelf Festival returns

Icons from the worlds of literature, art, media and sport are heading to Sheffield as Off the Shelf Festival of Words returns for its 35th edition from 28 September - 25 October.
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Wildfires have destroyed an area of protected tropical forest twice the size of Wales since 2001, study reveals

Over four million hectares of protected tropical forest - an area double the size of Wales - have been lost to wildfires since 2001.
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Novel clinical trial platform could dramatically speed up search for Motor Neuron Disease treatments

A University of Sheffield researcher was one of the lead investigators into a novel trial design that could mean faster results in the race to find effective treatments for Motor Neuron Disease.
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Novel treatment for motor neuron disease to be trialled in humans

University of Sheffield researchers are taking part in an investigational drug trial, designed to target one of the most important genetic drivers of 51²è¹Ý¶ù, the UNC13A protein.

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University of Sheffield history project to explore complex history of slavery in the region

A new study of Sheffield’s industrial heritage ‘Sheffield, Slavery, and its Legacies’, records the city’s complex relationship with the Atlantic economy throughout the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.
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University of Sheffield spin-out secures seed investment to revolutionise trust in global telecommunications and computing with quantum photonics

University of Sheffield spin-out, Aegiq, has secured a seven-figure seed investment to develop next generation networking with quantum security.
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New AI model helps discover causes of motor neurone disease

Scientists have developed a new machine learning model for the discovery of genetic risk factors for diseases such as Motor Neurone Disease (51²è¹Ý¶ù).
atherosclerosis in brain

Heart disease causes early brain dysfunction and can treble key Alzheimer’s protein (38017)

Heart disease can directly cause brain dysfunction early on which could lead to dementia and can treble the amount of an Alzheimer’s protein in the brain, say scientists.
A snowmobile travelling across Antarctica with a radar survey attached to locate and examine subglacial lakes

Almost 800 subglacial lakes catalogued for first time in new global inventory

The world’s first inventory of subglacial lakes has been compiled by an international team led by the University of Sheffield, providing a comprehensive directory of where the lakes are and how they are changing in a warming climate.