Part of this new funding will help the Dementias Platform UK team work with the MND community to translate scientific discoveries into real-world treatments.
Alexandra Preston, a doctoral student from MRC Human Immunology Unit (MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine), delivered a plenary talk on 11th December at the ASH Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In his talk, Demis mentioned how they were able to solve the protein folding problem with AlphaFold. For 50 years, people have been working on protein folding, a problem first articulated by Nobel Prize winner Christian Anfinsen.
IBD-associated colorectal cancers were found to occur in younger patients and have worse outcomes. Researchers call for urgent improvement of early detection methods to provide more risk-based and personalised care.
A 35-page full-colour report was sent out to hundreds of donors as a thank you for their important contributions, and to show them the difference they helped to make during the pandemic.
In this long read published to coincide with International AIDS Day, we explore how an international collaboration \u2013 of which the University of Oxford is a key partner \u2013 has boosted HIV vaccine research. We thank our partners at Imperial College London for allowing us to reproduce and abridge this article.
The inauguration of a new joint Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) and Borderland Health Foundation (BHF) Building took place in Mae Ramat, Thailand, this week.
Smoking increases the risks of 56 diseases and kills more than one million adults in China each year from 22 different causes, according to new research published in The Lancet Public Health.
Researchers from Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Nuffield Department of Population Health have been recgonised in The Genetics Society 2023 awards.
The well-being and mental health of young people in low - and middle - income countries have been dramatically affected by the series of crises hitting the world.\r\n\r\nAs the international community continues to struggle with the impact of COVID-19, conflict and climate change, the latest report from the Young Lives project shows a long-running upward trend in young people\u2019s well-being has been sharply reversed alongside widespread anxiety and depression. Young people are less confident about their futures for the first time in the 20-year study.
The Leedham Lab in Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM) has been awarded over \u00a32M from Cancer Research UK to develop a new tool that could help guide how bowel cancer patients are treated in the future.
The award recognises Radcliffe Department of Medicine's Professor Higgs major contribution to our understanding of how mammalian genes are switched on and off, and using haematopoiesis as a model to understand how genes function.
A new Oxford University study released during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week has significant findings on how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arises and persists. The results, published today in Nature Communications, provide the first direct evidence of AMR bacteria migrating from a patient\u2019s gut microbiome to the lungs, increasing the risk of deadly infections.
A new study published by University of Oxford researchers in an open-access journal, JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, shows that although many school-age adolescents are spending considerable time gaming, it is not having a negative impact on the wellbeing.
A vaccine developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group\u2019s Prof Teresa Lambe and supported in clinical trials and manufacture scale-up by researchers from the Jenner Institute (Nuffield Department of Medicine) has been recommended for inclusion in a ring vaccination trial to combat a Sudan ebolavirus outbreak in Uganda.
The latest Cochrane Review finds high certainty evidence that nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) in helping people quit smoking.
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