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Rethinking the ‘Collection Development Policy’ for the Pitt Rivers Museum
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Oxford historians apply state-of-the-art AI to transform the study of ancient texts
News
Ithaca is the first deep neural network that can aid historians in not only restoring the missing text of damaged inscriptions, but also identifying their original location, and establishing the date they were written.
Youth Smile: enabling access to dental care for homeless young people
Impact case study
Big data and batteries help the move towards clean energy
Impact case study
New postdoctoral global scholarships at Oxford funded by British Academy
News
Projects funded by this round of the scheme will support new research into a wide range of topics from the function of music in the acquisition of knowledge to the Communist Movement in Burma and the study of Syro-Armenian polemics in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Point-of-care testing in serious mental illness
Impact case study
Oxford team publish blueprint for making millions of doses of a new vaccine within 100 days
News
The researchers believe their work could enable Oxford’s ChAdOx vaccines to hit the “moonshot” objective set earlier this year by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which aims to help compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days from pathogen identification to mass
Vaccines shown to induce lower levels of neutralising antibodies against Omicron coronavirus variant
News
Researchers from the University of Oxford have analysed the impact of the Omicron COVID-19 variant of concern on one of the immune responses generated by vaccination.
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert delivers 44th Dimbleby Lecture
Featuring notable speakers from across the fields of business, science or politics almost every year since 1972, Prof.
Oxford researchers honoured by British Society for Immunology
Professors Dame Sarah Gilbert, Teresa Lambe, Sir Andrew Pollard and Fiona Powrie received the awards for contributions to the field of immunology, from developing the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine to pioneering gut immunology research and have inspired scores of new immunologists in the fie
Oxford vaccine reaches two billion dose milestone
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
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