In a guest blog, Kimberley Bryon-Dodd from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, highlights the work being done to combat growing malarial drug resistance.
Global efforts to try and treat and eradicate malaria are being hampered by increasing resistance of the disease-causing Plasmodium parasite to anti-malarial drugs.
A pan-European team of researchers involving the University of Oxford has developed a new technique to provide cellular 'blueprints' that could help scientists interpret the results of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) mapping.
Have you ever noticed that liquid stays inside a straw when it’s held horizontally? Or that the same thing doesn't happen when you turn a glass on its side?
What does the future hold for computing? Experts at the Networked Quantum Information Technologies Hub (NQIT), based at Oxford University, believe our next great technological leap lies in the development of quantum computing.
Five years ago, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace.
Our desire to communicate and interact on social media took off long before we considered how this vast and ever-growing mass of information might shape our world, for better or worse.
In a guest post for Science Blog, Professor David Pyle of Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences discusses a new paper looking at ancient volcanic activity in the Ethiopian Rift Valley.
In a guest post for Science Blog, Dr Emma O'Brien, Public Engagement and Communications Officer in the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at Oxford, writes about a new study looking at how a baby's birthweight can be used to predict its future health.
It might sound alarmingly similar to the prehistoric procedure of trepanning, but decompressive craniectomy – the removal of a large part of the skull to reduce swelling in the brain – is still used as a last-resort treatment for traumatic brain injury or stroke by surgeons around the world.
On World Alzheimer's Day (21 September), Oxford scientists are beginning a new study in the battle to beat the increasing issue of dementia.
Dementia is a truly global issue and to tackle it, we need a joined-up approach. Oxford is leading the way in dementia research and this funding will help us to continue to make progress for all those affected.
