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Art and academia: Healthy Lifespan Institute members present research at the Festival of the Mind

This year, Professor Ilaria Bellantuono and Dr Lee Pretlove shared their research discoveries with the general public at Sheffield’s Festival of the Mind.
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Early career researchers present findings to public in lecture series

Ameli Vidanearachchi and Haoyang Liu presented their research findings as part of the Sheffield u3a showroom lecture series.
Rahul Sidhu presenting at Dementia Futures

Dementia Futures 2024 - Bringing dementia research to the general public

Dementia Futures is a public-facing conference funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK. Members of the Neuroscience and Healthy Lifespan Institutes presented their research to the public for discussion.
An image of the Tasty Spoon concept, an arm of a woman is holding the spoon above a plate. The spoon is grey.

New ‘Tasty Spoon’™ will enhance food flavours for people living with dementia

A spoon, designed to enhance the flavour of food for dementia patients experiencing a loss of taste, could help combat high levels of malnutrition.
Stem cells

Are stem cells really the key to making humans live longer?

Professor Ilaria Bellantuono, director of the Healthy Lifespan Institute and from the University of Sheffield's Department of Oncology and Metabolism, discusses the potential for the use of stem cells to delay the onset of some diseases.

| Published by Wired
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More than half of older people don’t consume enough protein to stay healthy

New Sheffield study that assessed the diets of older adults in South Yorkshire found that more than half of older adults studied aren’t consuming enough protein to reach national recommendations.
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Institute academics contribute to new report on 'The Health of the Nation - A Strategy for Healthier Longer Lives'

Professor Alan Walker, institute co-director, and Dr Daniel Holman contributed to the section on social determinants of health in this important APPG report on healthier longer lives.

| Published by All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity
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A new toolbox for the longitudinal assessment of healthspan in aging mice

Prof. Ilaria Bellantuono, co director of the Healthy Lifespan Institute at the University of Sheffield has worked with a team of international scientists to develop a toolbox to reliably assess the healthspan of mice, published in Nature Protocols.
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The Healthy Lifespan Institute: Invited speaker series

Dr Angus Roberts: Natural language processing of the electronic health record – experiences from the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre