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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
Winners of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards University of Oxford
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
The annual Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) Awards mark the highest level of achievement within the field of psychiatry.
2018 Undergraduate Oxford iGEM team win Gold Medal Award
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
Lowering the blood platelet transfusion threshold can prevent major bleeding in premature babies
Research
8 November 2018
Meat tax: why taxing sausages and bacon could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year
General
8 November 2018
Dorothy Hodgkin: Britain’s only female Nobel scientist deserves to be on the new £50 note
General
8 November 2018
Oxford retains top spot for medicine for eighth consecutive year
Awards and Appointments General
8 November 2018
Oxford secures £17.5 million to lead national AI healthcare programmes
General Innovation
6 November 2018
Innovate UK and industry are to invest more than £17.5 million in the University of Oxford to develop artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications to benefit patients.