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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford today welcomed the Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa, to the laboratories and clinics of several of its vaccine development groups.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nApplications are invited for the 2024 Jill and Herbert Hunt Travelling Scholarship to support travel abroad for clinical study or research from graduates of the Oxford University Medical School.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSurgical robotics are amongst the most complex devices entering healthcare, but how should we evaluate them? Published in Nature Medicine, the Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment and Long-term monitoring (IDEAL) Robotics Colloquium outlines the latest guidance to aid researchers evaluating surgical robots.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers in Oxford have developed a new, easy-to-use technique for hospitals to contribute to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) models, without patient data leaving the hospital\u2019s premises.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWomen who are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) outside the National Health Service breast screening programme are around four times as likely to develop invasive breast cancer and to die from breast cancer than women in the general population, finds a University of Oxford study published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPublished in The Public Library of Science (PLOS), the new guideline will help the scientific community to write complete and transparent research reports involving consensus methods.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nMedical student, Anuraag Vazirani, and fellow colleagues from St Cross College, recently published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, in which they introduce Innovation Enhancing Techniques (IETs) to address challenges in healthcare and biomedicine, offering a versatile framework for creative solutions. Their study aims to give entrepreneurs, innovators, and researchers a toolkit to create innovative solutions to problems they are trying to solve. By adapting a technique called 'BrainSwarming', which enables a problem-solver to overcome psychological obstacles to thinking up new solutions to a problem, they can effectively generate innovative solutions - an alternative to traditional 'brainstorming'.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit at the University of Oxford and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences have identified a novel mechanism by which the brain produces powerful lasting memories that drive ill-advised actions.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe DETECT study, led by Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health Professors Christian Becker and Krina Zondervan explores the potential of visualizing endometriosis, including hard-to-detect superficial peritoneal disease, using Serac's innovative imaging agent.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study led by the Centre for Human Genetics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine has revealed that areas of the human genome that are routinely overlooked in clinical tests may be the cause of some rare diseases.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Experimental Medicine Clinical Research Facility (EMCRF) at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) has received its first volunteers as part of the LEGACY03 trial to improve vaccine design for different age groups.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Jenner Institute is conducting a new study, using BCG, the current licensed vaccine against tuberculosis. In this study, they will give BCG a second time to people who have already had BCG once before, and will compare whether giving it by inhalation is better at protecting people against tuberculosis than giving it into the skin
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearch led by scientists at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Bristol and California (Berkeley) reveals the evolutionary origins of multiple sclerosis (MS). This new insight into the genetic architecture of this disease changes scientists\u2019 view of its causes and has implications for its treatment, as well as paving the way for further investigations into other diseases.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe latest set of data presented by the Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries (MBRRACE-UK) Collaboration investigation into maternal deaths in the UK shows that the mortality rate for women who died during or soon after pregnancy has increased to levels not seen since 2003-05.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFirst clinical trial participants received doses of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine over the last week at University of Oxford. UK trial is first step to developing a vaccine against Nipah virus \u2013 a devastating disease mostly found in South-East Asia \u2013 that can be fatal in up to 75% of cases. The milestone clinical trial comes as the global health community marks the 25th anniversary of the first Nipah virus outbreaks. There are still no approved vaccines or treatments for the disease.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent study has revealed the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in preventing long COVID
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearch led by scientists at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Bristol and California (Berkeley) reveals the evolutionary origins of multiple sclerosis (MS). This new insight into the genetic architecture of this disease changes scientists\u2019 view of its causes and has implications for its treatment, as well as paving the way for further investigations into other diseases.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nSir Stewart Cole, KCMG, FRS has joined the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) as Executive Chair. The IOI is a world-leading centre of research, training, and education in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) based at the University of Oxford. It was established thanks to an unprecedented \u00a3100 million gift from INEOS, one of the world\u2019s largest chemical companies.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPlans for Warneford Park have taken a step forward as partners in the project signed a Conditional Option Agreement (COA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), agreeing how they will work together going forward.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit and Oxford University\u2019s Department of Computer Science have set out a new principle to explain how the brain adjusts connections between neurons during learning. This new insight may guide further research on learning in brain networks and may inspire faster and more robust learning algorithms in artificial intelligence.
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