The University of Oxford and Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. (SII), a Cyrus Poonawalla Group company and the world\u2019s largest vaccine manufacturer, have signed an Intellectual Property license agreement to advance the development and manufacture of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine candidate.
Two companion studies, published in Cell Genomics, reveal how brain development lays the foundation for both shared and sex-specific circuits, redefining how neural diversity arises. A Preview article linked to the report highlights the broader significance of these findings and places them in context for the field.
Research published today in Science Advances has uncovered new insights into why the most aggressive oesophageal cancers are so difficult to treat and how the body\u2019s own defence systems are helping them to thrive.
Research led by the Nerlov Group in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Molecular Haematology Unit provides the first detailed explanation of how parasite-fighting immune cells are selectively increased following infection.
Researchers at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology have found that physically resisting the formation of an immunological synapse actually promotes a stronger immune response. The findings could help explain how immune responses become weakened in cancer and chronic infection and inform the design of more effective vaccines.
Ester Hammond, Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology in the Department of Oncology, has been awarded new funding from Brain Research UK to investigate much needed treatment options for paediatric high-grade glioma (pHGG), the most common cause of tumour-related death in children.
An innovative new collaboration between the University of Oxford and the Eden Project will investigate how nature can improve mental health and wellbeing.
To mark International Women\u2019s Day 2026, the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences highlights the contributions of two of their researchers to a major new Parliamentary report on menstrual health.
The latest national maternity survey, You & Your Baby 2024, provides a picture of the mental health and maternity care experiences of women who gave birth in England in May 2024. We heard from 3,728 women from across the country - 3 in 10 were from minority ethnic groups, 3 in 10 were born outside the UK, and 2 in 10 lived in the most disadvantaged areas.
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a \u201cStroke Cognition Calculator\u201d, a new tool designed to estimate a person\u2019s chance of having thinking and memory problems six months after a stroke.
An AI-driven tool that tailors antidepressant treatment to individual patients was shown to improve outcomes for people with depression, compared to standard treatment, in a major international trial.
A new analysis of Child Measurement Programme data from England, Scotland, and Wales challenges recent reports suggesting children in Britain are getting shorter. The analysis, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, reveals that average child height has increased over the past two decades. But these gains are not related to improved child health, the researchers say. The increases in average height are closely linked to rising childhood obesity among poorer children and widening socioeconomic inequalities.
A new study by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Population Health and in China has shown that entering adulthood with a healthy body weight is associated with a substantially lower risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory disease. The study of approximately half a million Chinese adults is published in Science Bulletin.
The largest ever study of non-meat diets and cancer risk has found that vegetarian diets are associated with lower risks of several cancers \u2012 breast, prostate, kidney and pancreatic cancers, and multiple myeloma \u2012 but a higher risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.
Advice on how general practice staff should talk to adult patients about behaviour change is common, but new research from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences found that this behaviour-change communication guidance for general practice is rarely clearly substantiated with relevant evidence.
Researchers have uncovered a surprising and potentially transformative finding in the field of regenerative neuroscience: xenotransplanted mouse astrocytes dramatically enlarge following implantation into the injured brain, a response that was not anticipated and that may play a critical role in improving neural repair.
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