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Tag: Aberdeen University

  • Friday, August 14th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

    Aberdeen scientists to address Falklands' peat lands research project

    David Muirhead and Dmitri Mauquoy, from the university’s school of geosciences, will travel to the Falklands early next year as part of the project

    Scientists from Aberdeen University will travel to the Falkland Islands as part of a £230,000 research project to help prevent peatland fires. The project will use various techniques to study how the frequency, extent and intensity of burning affects the ability of peat land environments to store carbon. The news was announced by north Scotland daily The Press and Journal.

  • Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 20:44 UTC

    Trawling for the next generation of antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean

    England’s chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies has warned of an ‘antibiotic apocalypse”

    Researchers are embarking on an £8m project to discover new antibiotics at the bottom of the ocean. A team, led by scientists at Aberdeen University, is hunting for undiscovered chemicals among life that has evolved in deep sea trenches.Prof Marcel Jaspars said the team hoped to find “the next generation” of infection-fighting drugs.