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1. How the Horizons team can help LJMU students

   Discover opportunities to gain experience alongside your studies working in tech and innovation.

2. Can grass help solve the cleaner energy crisis?

   Government calls on expertise of LJMU plant biologist for energy solution

3. The future of music in Liverpool

   Research by LJMU in partnership with Bido Lito! asks the question how do we make Liverpool a global music city?

4. Scientists reveal source of human heartbeat in 3D

   A pioneering new study is set to help surgeons repair hearts without damaging precious tissue.

5. Energy from plants - how hybrids can boost biomass production

   Plant biologists show methods to improve Miscanthus hybrids to optimise seed production

6. How can dance help our mental health - new research

   Psychologist Valentina Cazzato collaborates with Edge Hill in AHRC-funded project to understand the neuroscience of dance as therapy

7. Can we turn the tide for orangutans in 2016?

   Assisting conservationists in combating primate extinction threats

8. Forensics: Advances in scene of crime DNA evidence

   Team explores how tiny traces could help crack criminal cases

9. Restrictions on using USBs for students and staff

   From 4 September students will be no longer able to use USB storage devices on LJMU equipment. This is alongside the restrictions already in place for staff.

10. Primate population threat up by 20% in 20 years

    LJMU’s Professor Serge Wich, and other internationally recognised experts, have published a paper calling for urgent action to protect the world’s dwindling primate populations.