MRC research outcomes and impact

Find out how the people and projects we invest in can make an impact on our lives and the world we live in.

29 May 2024

Regenerative medicine technologies for bone damage

13 March 2024

Home interventions reduce fall admissions for older people

20 February 2024

Preventing spina bifida

28 February 2023

MRC-funded discovery science underpins gene therapy cures

11 August 2022

International zoonotic disease research leads to long term impact

22 October 2021

The Oxford vaccine

15 October 2021

Air pollution research making UK cities healthier

1 October 2021

The story behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine success

20 September 2021

Epidemiology – what it is and how it’s mapping the spread of COVID-19

16 August 2021

The RECOVERY trial

19 July 2021

Sponge-based cancer test rolled out in Scottish hospitals

1 June 2021

MRC researchers at the forefront of COVID-19 response

20 May 2021

Studying the link between COVID-19 vaccines and rare blood clots

12 March 2021

Air pollution: research tackles a silent killer

18 January 2021

UK research key in fight against antibiotic resistance spread

1 November 2018

Transforming diagnostics and virus tracking with nanopore sequencing

30 May 2018

Zinc finger protein research paves way for in-body gene editing

20 March 2018

Patients regain sight from stem cell-engineered retinal tissue

9 November 2017

WHO pre-qualifies pneumococcal vaccine after study by MRC Unit The Gambia

1 November 2017

Daily pill can prevent HIV infection, shows PROUD study

11 July 2017

Bacterial resistance findings prompts China ban on animal feed antibiotic

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