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8 February 2024
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\n \n \n \nIHTM has launched the first two episodes in an exciting new podcast series looking at emerging and recurrent themes in global health.
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\n \n \n \nA team at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) has developed a new approach to significantly improve the accuracy of Ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing. They pinpoint the primary source of inaccurate quantification in both short and long-read RNA sequencing, and have introduced the concept of \u201cmajority vote\u201d error correction leading to a substantial improvement in RNA molecular counting.
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\n \n\n \n4 February 2024
\n \n \n \nThis World Cancer Day, we heard from four Group Leaders at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine about their work and how their groups are helping in the fight against cancer.
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\n \n\n \n1 February 2024
\n \n \n \nInvestigators immunised over 4800 young children in a trial in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali and Tanzania and found on average 78% efficacy in the 5\u201317-month age group over the first year\r\nTo date 25 million doses manufactured and ready for roll-out by The Serum Institute of India (SII) in the next three to four months
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\n \n\n \n30 January 2024
\n \n \n \nAround 1.6% of women and girls have symptomatic Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD), according to a new review of global studies published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.
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\n \n\n \n29 January 2024
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford today welcomed the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa, to the laboratories and clinics of several of its vaccine development groups.
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\n \n\n \n29 January 2024
\n \n \n \nApplications are invited for the 2024 Jill and Herbert Hunt Travelling Scholarship to support travel abroad for clinical study or research from graduates of the Oxford University Medical School.
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\n \n\n \n26 January 2024
\n \n \n \nSurgical robotics are amongst the most complex devices entering healthcare, but how should we evaluate them? Published in Nature Medicine, the Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment and Long-term monitoring (IDEAL) Robotics Colloquium outlines the latest guidance to aid researchers evaluating surgical robots.
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\n \n\n \n25 January 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers in Oxford have developed a new, easy-to-use technique for hospitals to contribute to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) models, without patient data leaving the hospital\u2019s premises.
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\n \n\n \n25 January 2024
\n \n \n \nWomen who are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) outside the National Health Service breast screening programme are around four times as likely to develop invasive breast cancer and to die from breast cancer than women in the general population, finds a University of Oxford study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
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\n \n\n \n24 January 2024
\n \n \n \nPublished in The Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new guideline will help the scientific community to write complete and transparent research reports involving consensus methods.
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\n \n\n \n22 January 2024
\n \n \n \nMedical student, Anuraag Vazirani, and fellow colleagues from St Cross College, recently published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, in which they introduce Innovation Enhancing Techniques (IETs) to address challenges in healthcare and biomedicine, offering a versatile framework for creative solutions. Their study aims to give entrepreneurs, innovators, and researchers a toolkit to create innovative solutions to problems they are trying to solve. By adapting a technique called 'BrainSwarming', which enables a problem-solver to overcome psychological obstacles to thinking up new solutions to a problem, they can effectively generate innovative solutions - an alternative to traditional 'brainstorming'.
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\n \n\n \n22 January 2024
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have identified a novel mechanism by which the brain produces powerful lasting memories that drive ill-advised actions.
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\n \n \n \nThe DETECT study, led by Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health Professors Christian Becker and Krina Zondervan explores the potential of visualizing endometriosis, including hard-to-detect superficial peritoneal disease, using Serac's innovative imaging agent.
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\n \n\n \n18 January 2024
\n \n \n \nA recent study led by the Centre for Human Genetics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine has revealed that areas of the human genome that are routinely overlooked in clinical tests may be the cause of some rare diseases.
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