A lack or low content of the protein IFITM3 due to genetic mutation can change a harmless flu into a life-threatening disease. This information was announced in a collaborative study which included contributions from Edinburgh University and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute among others. While most people recover well from a flu, some have to [...]
Edinburgh University’s Pollock Halls have the best accommodation fire safety record in Scotland. Following Freedom Of Information requests to Scotland’s largest universities, Napier News discovered that the Fire Brigade were only called to Edinburgh University’s Holyrood halls twice in the last academic year. The site, which houses around 2000 students, has seen dramatic improvements following [...]
A campaign will be launched during the Students Association elections at the end of March for the main library building on George Square to be open 24 hours a day. The Student Council has already managed to extend the opening hours to 2:30am, and have previously argued for a 24-hour policy. Members of EUSA will [...]
March sees the annual return of International Women’s Day (IWD) with events planned throughout Edinburgh to mark the occasion. For over 100 years, the world has celebrated the achievements of women and their contribution to the arts, sciences, medicine and numerous other fields. On and around 8th March the celebration continues as countries around the [...]
Edinburgh University was the scene of student protests yesterday. Those involved are demanding that the university reverse its decision to implement £9000 fees for non-Scottish students. The march was organised by the EUSA and the Edinburgh University Anti-Cuts Coalition, and took place yesterday at 12.30pm. Students marched from Holyrood along the Royal Mile to the [...]
By Martin Adam Edinburgh University students have developed a bacterium which could ease the ability to detect land mines across the world’s battlefields via a financially cheap and accurate manner. The fast emerging biological engineering technique known as BioBricking has allowed for intricate molecules of bacteria or BioBricks to be added together piece by piece [...]
Bottle www.12steptreatmentcentres.com By Jennifer Flett ChildLine issued a new worrying report this week stating that in the last year 230 children in Scotland have called the charity help line about their parents’ drinking, with 87% claiming physical abuse as a consequence. These figures demonstrate a different aspect of Scotland’s ongoing problems with alcohol, as they [...]
Normally, birthdays are a time for celebration. The first birthday of The Bowery this weekend has got people talking for different reasons, with widespread fear over the venue’s future.
Nick Eardley A report from Edinburgh University which suggests that minimum pricing of alcohol would help stem alcohol abuse in Scotland has been welcomed by the SNP. MSP Michael Matheson has said that the study, which indicates that chronic drinkers use cheap alcohol to fuel their habits, is evidence of the need for further measures [...]
By Adam Couper A fourth year student at Edinburgh University has been left out of pocket by a fake ticket website.Iain Lobban, 21, from Edinburgh had purchased tickets for The Mighty Boosh live show from www.londonticketshop.com which he had thought was a legitimate website he soon realised something was wrong. ‘I checked with my bank [...]
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