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Global map of HIV reveals challenge to vaccine development
Research
4 December 2018
A study to be published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on World AIDS Day shows the extraordinary global genetic diversity of HIV and highlights just how big the challenge is to develop a vaccine to combat the global spread of HIV.
Experimental cancer drug shows promise for Parkinson’s
Research
4 December 2018
A drug originally developed for prostate cancer may have exciting potential for treating Parkinson’s.
Researchers in Westminster as part of Royal Society pairing scheme
General
4 December 2018
Professor Deborah Gill from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Dr Luke Jostins-Dean from the Kennedy Institute at the University of Oxford swap a lab coat for legislation at the House of Commons for a week in Westminster.
Discover the 'Forest on your Fingernail' with new Oxford Sparks animation
General
30 November 2018
A new Oxford Sparks animation with Kevin Foster (Department of Biochemistry and Department of Zoology) explores how studying tiny organisms can shed light on much bigger animals and plants.
New report calls for cultural shift in use of patient data by NHS and health technology companies
General
30 November 2018
A radical culture change in the NHS and across the health data and medical technology community is needed to ensure the NHS can deliver the benefits of new health technologies, says a new report co-authored by a University of Oxford scientist.
£635,000 towards new Therapy Acceleration Laboratory
General
23 November 2018
Deutsche Bank employees across the UK raised this generous sum via their ‘One Day’ initiative, in collaboration with Cure Leukaemia
Over half of former intensive care patients in the UK report symptoms of psychological disorders
Research
23 November 2018
Patients in the UK who have survived critical illnesses requiring care in an intensive care unit (ICU) frequently report symptoms of anxiety, PTSD and/or depression, according to a study published in open access journal Critical Care. Those reporting symptoms of depression after critical illness appear to be at a greater risk of death.
Top ten universities for animal research announced
General
23 November 2018
• Ten universities account for one third of all animal research in the UK • Largest animal users are all among the top universities in the world • All ten universities have signed up to Concordat on Openness on Animals Research in the UK
Modified virus used to kill cancer cells
Research
23 November 2018
Scientists have equipped a virus that kills carcinoma cells with a protein so it can also target and kill adjacent cells that are tricked into shielding the cancer from the immune system.
Machine learning can be used to predict which patients require emergency admission
Research
23 November 2018
Machine learning can help healthcare workers predict whether patients may require emergency hospital admission, new study has shown.
Dr Ross Chapman welcomed as EMBO Young Investigator
Awards and Appointments General
20 November 2018
Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics researcher Dr Ross Chapman has been selected as one of the European Molecular Biology Organisation's Young Investigators for 2018.
Professor Duncan Richards to lead Clinical Therapeutics at Oxford
General
16 November 2018
The new Climax Professor of Clinical Therapeutics will join the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences at the Medical Sciences Division and St Hilda’s College in February 2019 to lead Oxford’s answer to a key global challenge – how to determine quickly which potential new therapies have the properties to become important medicines.
Structural study of antibiotic opens the way for new TB treatments
Research
16 November 2018
New analysis of the structure and function of the naturally-occurring antimicrobial agent tunicamycin has revealed ways to produce new, safe antibiotics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other disease-causing bacteria.
Uncovering the whole story in diabetes
General Research
16 November 2018
Insulin is only half the story in what goes awry in diabetes...
In remembrance of distinguished former Oxford Physiology students
General
16 November 2018
In this Centenary year of the ending of the First World War, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics remembers two of its former students who were awarded the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system - the Victoria Cross.
Smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure put women at higher heart attack risk than men
Research
13 November 2018
Smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure increase the risk of a heart attack more in women than in men, new research from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford has found.
New paper shows how transcription terminates with the help of a phosphatase
Research
13 November 2018
New research from Lidia Vasilieva's lab in the Department of Biochemistry sheds light on how transcription termination in eukaryotes is controlled.
Final year Medical students win regional heats in Surgical Skills Competition
Awards and Appointments General
9 November 2018