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New research from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has pioneered an economic perspective on controlling livestock diseases. Focusing on Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), bovine TB (bTB) and bluetongue virus (BTV), the researchers draw striking conclusions about the role of movement bans in controlling an outbreak.

For centuries understanding how the order of events is stored in memory has been a mystery. However, researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have worked out how the order of events in memory could be stored and later recalled in the hippocampal memory system in the brain.

Researchers at WMG, ¹û¶³´«Ã½, have found a way not just to recycle used electric vehicle batteries, but repurpose them as small energy storage systems (ESS) for off grid locations in developing countries or isolated communities. The repurposed units, each containing approximately 2kWh of energy capacity, will be able to power a small shop, a farm holding, or multiple residential homes.

Engineers at WMG at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ have developed and installed a new, robotic measuring system, capable of accurately and repeatedly measuring large objects on the production line, such as car body-shells, in a fraction of the time traditionally taken to measure them on co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs).

Stoli Catalysts, a spin-out company from the School of Engineering at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has been awarded €1.2m (£1.1m) from the European Innovation Council (EIC) SME Instrument scheme to design, build and test a small-scale pilot plant to make medicines, vitamins and food supplements at much lower cost and more sustainably using its patented continuous flow catalytic reactor technology.

Cell freezing (cryopreservation) – which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research – can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant, discovered at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, which reduces the amount of ‘anti-freeze’ needed to protect cells.