Scientists at the University of Oxford have created synthetic tissues that possess functional properties controlled by light – including the ability to ‘switch on’ the expression...
Scientists have long known that our bodies need to control the communities of bacteria in the gut to prevent a beneficial environment from turning into a...
Researchers from the University of Oxford, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the University of Bergen have published a new study taking the first step towards...
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has February 12, 2016, announced £9m of funding – known as the Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards – to be...
The largest genome-wide study of the malaria parasite finds that the drug resistance occurs because of a key mutation happening on top of ‘background’ mutations which...
Jonathan Wood-28 Nov 2014 Cancer requires a blood supply to deliver the nutrients and oxygen it needs to grow and survive. It had been thought that...
Potential new treatments for Ebola are to be tested in West Africa for the first time as part of an international initiative to fast-track trials of...