The award will support ongoing research into the role of inflammation in animals from birds to mammals, work that has also implications in human medicine.

A new book is championing science backed research to help develop women’s football.

Women’s Football: From Science to High Performance provides a thorough, yet straightforward and accessible, analysis of the key physiological, biomechanical and social-psychological issues that can be applied to achieve women’s footballing development.

This cutting-edge text puts developing elite women footballers at the front and centre of its core aim, through the delivery of evidence-based, scientific information focusing on best practice. As such, each chapter is co-written, where possible, by a scholar and a practitioner or player (e.g., coach, footballer), meaning the scientific principles and research presented within are translated clearly into practice.

The book is edited by co-founders of the Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network, Dr Jacky Forsyth and Dr Claire-Marie Roberts

Smartwatches that can collect physical and physiological data on users could be potentially interesting tools in biomedicine to gain a better understanding of brain diseases and behavioural disorders and possible driver mutations related to these pathologies. This is stated in a study published in the journal Cell, and led by the co-author Mark Gerstein, from Yale University (United States). The study includes the participation of Professor Diego Garrido Martín, from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics of the Faculty of Biology at the University of Barcelona.

New Georgia Tech research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

3D-printed snail shells provide insights into the brood care of cichlids