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Vaccinated groups at highest risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation and death identified using new QCovid tool
Dr Helen Moore wins the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
The accolade is one of a selection of prizes and medals awarded today by the British Academy, the national body for the humanities and social sciences, for notable contributions to fields including Linguistics, Cultural History and Biblical Studies and is shared with Gillian Russell, Professor of
Covid-19, not vaccination, presents biggest blood clot risks
Oxford vaccine reaches one billion doses released
AstraZeneca, with their extensive world-wide development and manufacturing capabilities, have been able to have the vaccine approved and licenced for use in over 170 countries, with over 20 manufacturing sites across the world, including the Serum Institute of India, working together to release t
Phase I trial begins of new vaccine against the Plague
The trial, funded by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation https://www.ukri.org/, uses a vaccine based on the ChAdOx1 adenovirus viral vector platform al
Daily contact COVID-19 testing for students effective at controlling transmission in schools
The independent study, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care and supported by the Department for Education and Office for National Statistics, ran between April and June 2021.
Difficulty hearing speech could be a risk factor for dementia
Hearing impairment affects around 1.5 billion individuals worldwide (World Health Organization), and there is growing evidence that this could increase the risk of dementia.
Red and processed meat linked to increased risk of heart disease, Oxford study shows
Globally coronary heart diseases (caused by narrowed arteries that supply the heart with blood) claim nearly nine million lives each year1, the largest of any disease, and present a huge burden to health systems.
T-cell ‘training grounds’ behind robust immune system response seen in adenovirus vaccines
Writing in the journal Nature Immunology, they detail an investigation into one of the key features of adenovirus vaccines – their ability to generate strong and sustained populations of the ‘killer’ T-cell element of the i
Lateral flow tests are 95% effective at detecting Covid-19 when used at the onset of symptoms
A new study by researchers at the University of Oxford, Queen Mary University of London, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, and the Medical University of Graz, has found that lateral flow tests detect Covid-19 with similar accuracy to laboratory-based PCR tests, providing they are used at th
High blood sugar levels ‘reprogramme’ stem cells
High levels of glucose in the blood ‘reprogrammes’ stem cells, leading to a lasting increase in the risk of developing dangerous atherosclerosis, according to research funded by the British Heart Foundation published today in Circulation.
Studying ancient civilisations develops 21st-century skills
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SEREN: Improving blood-related diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa
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Influencing global policy on typhoid vaccination
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Uncovering Europe’s Stories
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Identifying risk and building resilience in complex infrastructure systems
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Tackling blindness through gene therapy
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Towards more equitable health research
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Towards the circularity of plastics
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Building the ‘infrastructure’ for innovation and translation
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