 Trialling Therapy to Beat Cancer
In the past, one-size-fits-all cancer treatments have been given to patients based on whether their cancer is low, moderate or high risk. Now research at Warwick Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is investigating personalised treatment for a specific group of women with breast cancer. In a recent lecture, Prof Janet Dunn explained the work of the Unit and the new type of clinical trials that they're running.
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 When Football Turned Premier
It is 20 years since the English Premier League burst onto the world's sporting scene with a fanfare. Professor Wyn Grant, himself an avid football fan, looks at the effect the Premier League has had on our glorious game and asks: Is its model now under threat?
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 France, Sarkozy and the Future of the Eurozone
In December 2011 the leaders of France and Germany declared that the EU needs a new treaty to deal with the Eurozone debt crisis, yet the proposals owe more to German rather than French fiscal policy. To mark 40 years since the launch of the Common Market, Drs Ben Clift and Ben Richardson ask: What's next for the euro and the EU itself?
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 Studying Metals in the Brain
Could the presence of iron in brain cells help to explain why some people suffer from Alzheimer's disease? Mary Finnegan, PhD student at the University of Warwick, is using specialist technology called the Diamond accelerator to improve our understanding of the relationship between Alzheimer's and trace metals, with the hope that diagnosis and treatment can be improved in the future.
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 Love and Sex in the Ancient World
Sexuality, as well as sex and gender, are now firmly part of academic discourses in the humanities, but few topics are as disconcerting or as difficult to regard with detachment. To mark Valentine's Day four scholars from the Department of Classics and Ancient History discuss love, longing and lament in Roman elegiac poetry, and Ancient Greek attitudes to lust and sexuality.
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 The Case for the Public University
University funding is going through an era of great change. Three panel members at the recent Warwick Higher Education Summit discussed the public versus private debate. What constitutes a private university as opposed to a public one? When it comes to universities, is public funding best, and if so, why?
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Four speakers gathered at the recent Warwick Higher Education Summit to discuss the question of whether the arts and humanities are relevant to society. What is the value of the arts and humanities today? Is it wrong to try and quantify it in monetary terms?
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In this celebration of Charles Dickens' bicentenary, experts discuss the extent to which the author's childhood experiences of poverty, along with the terror of violence and crime that he saw on London's streets, influenced his fiction and his personal life.
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February 6th 2012 marks the 60th anniversary of the death of King George VI and the succession to the throne of his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. In this interview, Dr Sarah Richardson looks at his life and the crucial role he played for the institution of the monarchy.
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Like many Victorians, Charles Dickens was fascinated with travel, and this is reflected in Little Dorrit which features continental locations such as Marseilles, Rome and the Alps. Yet why did he represent Europe as a hostile place in this novel, and what can we glean from him about British tourists of the period?
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