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The University of York has joined eight other institutions across Yorkshire and Teesside to welcome the first cohort of PhD students to the Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (YBDTP), a new collaboration to support the UK bioeconomy.

York will lead a new doctoral training programme funded by UKRI to build talent and boost UK innovation and growth.

Bladder cancer might be caused by our cell’s response to a common virus which infects nearly everyone in childhood, according to new research led by scientists at the University of York.

A former PhD student at the University of York has used records from museum collections and citizen science projects to show long-term patterns in the species richness of tropical butterflies.

People diagnosed with multiple myeloma – one of the most common forms of blood cancer – are now living nearly twice as long on average as they were in 2005, according to a new study.

The results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of Biology in ‘Academic Support’, ‘Learning Opportunities’, ‘Teaching on my course’, ‘Assessment and Feedback’ and ‘Organising and Management’.

Researchers have developed a new formula to allow urban farmers to design their own ‘light recipe’ - a combination of different colours of lighting that could help increase crop yields in vertical farms.

A University of York academic has been awarded the prestigious Lister Institute Research Prize in the 2025 competition, recognising exceptional early-career biomedical scientists in the UK.