Health
Gene therapy shows promise for reversing blindness
Researchers at Oxford University have shown how it might be possible to reverse blindness using gene therapy to reprogram cells at the back of the eye...
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Health
Scientists Discover Unknown Virus in ‘Throwaway’ DNA
A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. In research published in the journal Virus Evolution, scientists from Oxford...
Health
Oxford Spinout to Develop Cancer Therapies that Reprogram Tu...
Oxford University spinout Argonaut Therapeutics is developing cancer drugs that reprogram cancer cells to undergo the body’s natural process of ...
Health
Oxford Key to Network of Ultra-Powerful MRI Scanners
Researchers at Oxford University are playing a key role in expanding the UK’s network of ultra-powerful MRI machines. Oxford and Nottingham Univ...
Science & Environment
Oxford Mathematicians Reveal Secrets of Chameleon’s &#...
Scientists at Oxford University have built a mathematical model to explain the secrets of the chameleon’s extraordinarily powerful tongue. The c...
Health
The future of cancer treatment
1 in 3 people born after 1960 in the UK will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime, and each year, 4th February marks World Cancer D...
Education
Wikipedia world view – Shaped by Editors in the West
A new Oxford University study has found that nearly half of all edits to articles about places on Wikipedia were made by editors living in just five c...
Education
The effects of a ‘two-speed Britain’ in internet...
A detailed academic study into internet access reveals the gap between urban and rural broadband speeds, which it says risks damaging business, adds t...
Education
Researchers discover immune system’s ‘Trojan HorseR...
Oxford University researchers have found that human cells use viruses as Trojan horses, transporting a messenger that encourages the immune system to ...
Education
Oxford Vaccine Group begins first trial of new Ebola vaccine...
Oxford University doctors and scientists are starting the first safety trial of an experimental preventative Ebola vaccine regimen being developed by ...
