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Maps show where touching is allowed
Research
27 October 2015
Where can someone touch you? Most of us would say it depends on who’s doing the touching but for the first time researchers at the University of Oxford and Finland’s Aalto University have mapped where we allow family, friends and strangers to touch us.
Inflammatory remarks
Blogs General Research
27 October 2015
Ponatinib is an anti-cancer drug which has earned some notoriety for its cost (£90,000 per patient per year) and side-effects that were serious enough to temporarily suspend its use.
University Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research
General
27 October 2015
Professor Sarah Whatmore, Professor of Environment and Public Policy in the School of Geography and the Environment and Fellow of Keble College, has been appointed as the University’s Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research.
Oxford to lead work towards more personalised care for patients
General Innovation Research
26 October 2015
Oxford is today named as a centre for excellence leading the drive to tailor more treatments to the needs of individual patients.
Research boost for Oxford University Hospital
General Research
23 October 2015
Clinical research is on the rise in the NHS, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is helping to spearhead the trend highlighted by new figures in a league table published on 21 October 2015.
Oxford-led programme launches unparalleled resource for dementias research
General Research
21 October 2015
An Oxford University-led research programme has launched a new system to help dementia researchers make the most of existing study data.
Researchers learn how to steer the heart – with light
Research
20 October 2015
We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia.
Oxford Mindfulness Centre and the Mindful Nation UK
General Research
20 October 2015
Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Mindfulness.
Students learn about careers in science
General
19 October 2015
Sixth form students learned about careers in science last week, at the very successful "Is Science For Me?" event held at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM).
Mini DNA sequencer’s data belies its size
General Innovation
15 October 2015
A miniature DNA sequencing device that plugs into a laptop and was developed by Oxford Nanpore has been tested by an open, international consortium, including Oxford University researchers.
Excellence in medical education recognised
General
15 October 2015
Medical and health teaching and research at Oxford University has been ranked as the world's best for the fifth year running in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
How the zebrafish could hold the key to heart disease cure
Research
13 October 2015
Stimulating the heart to repair itself is within scientific touching distance, thanks in large part to the work of Professor Paul Riley and his team in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
World Mental Health Day 2015
General
13 October 2015
'Dignity' was the theme for this year's World Mental Health Day. The Department of Psychiatry launched a Twitter campaign to support dignity in mental health in the week running up to the day on Saturday 10 October.
HIV: researchers find that ‘biomarkers’ can predict virus remission in patients
Research
12 October 2015
New clues as to why virus remains undetectable in some patients after treatment ends.
Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China
Research
9 October 2015
One in three of all the young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco, unless a substantial proportion stop smoking, according to new research published in The Lancet.
US Ambassador visits University to see research, innovation and social entrepreneurship in action
General Innovation
7 October 2015
US Ambassador Matthew W. Barzun visited Oxford this week (30 September) to learn about how the University is working with Oxford Brookes, Oxford City Council, local businesses and other groups to promote research, innovation and social entrepreneurship.
New collaborative research programme on Chinese herbal medicine starts
General Research
6 October 2015
A five-year collaborative research programme with Shaanxi Momentum Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd has been signed and a Chinese Herbal medicine research laboratory at DPAG has been granted.
Trust named Digital Hospital of the Year 2015
Awards and Appointments General
6 October 2015
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has won the Digital Hospital of the Year award in the ehi 2015 AWARDS. The result was announced on 1 October 2015 from a shortlist of five contestants.