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1. Talented young athletes get expert sport science coaching

   LJMUs School of Sport and Exercise Sciences is piloting a unique programme to support talented young athletes in schools and colleges across Merseyside, and its neighbouring counties.

2. New muscle study to help combat frailty in old age

   Read how Scientists at LJMU and the Australian Catholic University have established a new technique for studying muscle growth in humans that could advance treatments to prevent frailty in old age.

3. Greg Whyte joins fellow LJMU experts to discuss the Birmingham Commonwealth Games

   With knowledge across a range of sport science disciplines, LJMU experts have gathered to discuss the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 in a new episode of the 1823 Podcast.

4. Talented athletes recognised at national awards

   Three athletes supported by LJMUs Performance Sport team, at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, have received national recognition for their achievements.

5. Healthcare framework proposed to improve health of ageing populations

   An LJMU researcher is part of an international team of researchers who have put forward a position statement, published in Science, which lays out a new healthcare framework to help ageing populations stay healthier for longer.

6. Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago

   International acclaim for new book on one of the USA’s most notorious murders.

7. Reconstructing Ice Age environments

   A study into the feeding behaviour of two extinct European rhinoceros species has revealed an unexpected survival strategy for a mammalian family of the Ice Ages.

8. Dazzling Iron Age discovery

   Archaeologists have discovered evidence of the first wealthy Iron Age community in the North West of England. 

9. Cocoa drinks can boost exercise resistance in middle age

   Scientists in Liverpool have found that cocoa can increase oxygen uptake and make exercising easier for more sedentary people.

10. Report highlights health impact of abuse and loneliness for elderly

    LJMU's Public Health Institute conducts survey of health impacts of elderly lives with Public Health Wales