Research in the UK will be co-ordinated by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.

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The study involved scientists from the Medical Research Council (MRC), the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre in Cambridge and a Belgian team at the University of Liege.

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The head of the Medical Research Council (MRC), Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, has been one of the first research leaders to back the call to make strategic choices in our research spending.

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Scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) at Southampton University allowed for other factors such as poor nutrition and concluded that being underweight or doing little physical activity were responsible for increased risk.

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