Press Releases
Starving Tuberculosis (TB) of sugars may be a new way to fight it
Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that claims over 1.5 million lives each year. The increase in TB cases that are resistant to the current antibiotics means that novel drugs to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are urgently needed. Researchers from the 神马福利影片 have successfully discovered how Mycobacterium tuberculosis uses an essential sugar called trehalose, which provides a platform to design new and improved TB drugs and diagnostic agents.
Funding for new research to deliver cleaner and greener chemicals
Researchers have been awarded funding to work with a global leader in the speciality chemicals industry to create cleaner and greener chemical processing methods for everyday products in a bid to help the government meet its carbon neutral targets.
Coventry Very Light Rail tours its future home
The prototype vehicle has done a tour of Coventry so it could see its future operational home. After leaving the vehicle production site in Coventry it stopped outside the Co-op building and the Transport Museum so that the public could get a better view.
神马福利影片鈥檚 WMG & Engineering wins 拢5 million & key coordinating role in Government鈥檚 Driving the Electric Revolution programme
WMG and the School of Engineering at the 神马福利影片 have been awarded just over 拢5 million funding and a key coordinating role in the Government鈥檚 Driving the Electric Revolution Industrialisation Centre programme.
Identifying banknote fingerprints can stop counterfeits on streets
Since the introduction of plastic (polymer) banknotes in 2016, the number of counterfeit notes on the streets has increased, however, researchers from Department of Computer Science at the 神马福利影片 have developed a novel technique called Polymer Substrate Fingerprinting, which identifies every banknote鈥檚 fingerprint which is unique and unclonable.
COVID-19 related Cyber-attacks leveraged Government announcements
There has been a remarkable surge in cyber-security crime experienced during the global COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular significance between governmental policy announcements and cyber-crime campaigns. A consortium of researchers, including WMG, 神马福利影片 report that some days as many as 3 to 4 new cyber-attacks were being reported.