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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn estimated 95,000\u2013167,000 inpatients at English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals caught SARS-CoV-2 while in hospital during England\u2019s \u2018second wave\u2019 of COVID-19, between June 2020 and March 2021, reports a study in Nature. The findings reveal the scale of hospital transmissions and highlight contributing factors, such as a limited number of single rooms.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAs the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, viruses can quickly evolve new ways of evading our immune systems, undermining our efforts to control outbreaks. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School could help predict new viral variants before they emerge. The findings have been published in the journal Nature.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Translational Myeloma Centre (OTMC) will be a collective force of research, outreach and patient care that will transform treatment opportunities for multiple myeloma cancer patients.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nBack in February 2020 the Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) team packed up our boxes, moved our books to the VHL and closed the doors on the RSL. This was to allow a thorough refurbishment of the building. Now more than three years later the RSL has reopened to the staff and the students of the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEileen Parkes, Associate Professor in Innate Tumour Immunology in the Department of Oncology, will lead the expansion of the Oxford\u2019s Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC) programmes in early drug development and biomarker research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Ellison Scholars programme, announced by the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), will find and fund students and train them to become leaders with the skills to invent, improve, and manage the next generation of technology, to help solve some of humanity\u2019s most challenging and enduring problems.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE-UK) collaboration, co-led by Nuffield Department of Population Health\u2019s National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, has published the full Saving Lives, Improving Mothers\u2019 Care report on women who died during, or up to a year after, pregnancy between 2019 and 2021.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn July and August, twenty medical students from the Arab American University of Palestine (AAUP), based in Jenin, visited Oxford for two weeks to learn clinical skills and observe OUH clinicians.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn academic/industry partnership, based at the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, is helping companies use experimental medicine approaches to speed up development of new drugs to treat psychiatric disorders.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWhat we desperately need are new tools to improve malaria control, and this is the first vaccine that can be deployed at scale, that will be affordable, and can be used widely in Africa on a scale of hundreds of millions of doses each year.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProject headed by Oxford University\u2019s Professor Teresa Lambe OBE (Calleva Head of Vaccinology and Immunology, Department of Paediatrics) and co-developer of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and Paul Klenerman (Sidney Truelove Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine)
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will be a game-changer in the fight against malaria, which kills half a million people in Africa every year. Trials have shown that the R21/Matrix vaccine, developed by Oxford University together with the Serum Institute of India, reduces malaria by up to 75%. It can be manufactured cheaply and on a mass scale. The Conversation Weekly spoke to chief investigator Adrian Hill, who is also director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford, about this revolutionary vaccine. Below are edited excerpts from the podcast.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA team of researchers from the University of Oxford has shown for the first time that it is possible to track the progression of Parkinson\u2019s Disease accurately using specially trained machine learning algorithms to analyse data derived from sensor devices worn by patients.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Alan Bernstein has been appointed as the new head of Oxford Global Health, which will bring together and showcase the breadth of global health research across the University of Oxford.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study led by the University of Oxford has found that natural evolution of antibiotic resistance genes has maintained resistance in bacteria despite a reduction in the use of antibiotics. The findings demonstrate the importance of understanding the regulatory evolution of resistance genes to strategically combat AMR. The study has been published in the Journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Oxford, along with colleagues at Cambridge University and Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, have shown the potential of a new gene therapy approach to silence human sensory neurons (nerve cells) as a means of treating persistent pain. Many current drugs for chronic pain are highly addictive, which makes it important to discover new alternatives.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA breakthrough technique developed by University of Oxford researchers could one day provide tailored repairs for those who suffer brain injuries. The researchers demonstrated for the first time that neural cells can be 3D printed to mimic the architecture of the cerebral cortex. These results have been published today in the journal Nature Communications.
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