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Genes that increase children's risk of blood infection identified

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A team led by Oxford University has identified genes that make certain children more susceptible to invasive bacterial infections by performing a large genome-wide association study in African...
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Scientists discover how supermassive black holes keep galaxies turned off

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An international team of scientists has identified a common phenomenon in galaxies that could explain why huge numbers of them turn into cosmic graveyards.
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Oxford study aims to find anti-depressants that work faster for patients

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A new method to find anti-depressant treatments that work for individual patients is about to be tested at GP surgeries across Europe. Researchers at the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and...
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Oxford key to network of ultra-powerful MRI scanners

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Researchers at Oxford University are playing a key role in expanding the UK's network of ultra-powerful MRI machines. Oxford and Nottingham Universities have been pioneering research using so...
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Helping to bring energy prices down and keep the lights on

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Peak demand is posing an increasing challenge to the UK’s electricity system.

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Can psychological therapies help people who self-harm?

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A review by the respected Cochran organisation, and led by Oxford University Professor of Psychiatry Keith Hawton, has found that psychological therapies, more commonly known as 'talking...
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Record £16.9m for Oxford spinout designing stem cell drugs to treat age-related disease

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One of the most ambitious Oxford spinouts to date is en route to becoming a powerhouse in age-related regenerative medicine, developing drugs which can treat cancer, neurodegenerative diseases,...
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Universal flu vaccine under development by Oxford spinout Vaccitech

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Oxford spin out company Vaccitech has launched today with £10m seed investment to develop a universal flu vaccine already showing promise in clinical trials. The company is also developing and...
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Oxford spinout raises £10m for precision system to treat disease

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Oxford spinout EvOx Therapeutics will harness the body's own precision communications system to deliver drugs to specific parts of the body, with the aim of treating conditions which are currently...
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Human factors: Designing health services for people

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Let me start with a statement of the blindingly obvious: People are fundamental to health services. Design whatever health system you like but you'll still need people to deliver healthcare to those other people - patients.

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Oxford Nanoimaging to provide desktop super-resolution microscopes

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Oxford Nanoimaging (ONI) – a University of Oxford spinout – will commence sales of an elegant desktop optical microscope capable of zooming in on objects as tiny as structures inside living cells....
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Report reveals journalists' views on ethics, pay and the pressures they feel

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A new report called 'Journalists in the UK',  launched today by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, examines their views on the ethics and practices of journalism, how they regard their role, pay and diversity within the profession, who they trust, and the c

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A female perspective from generations of immigrant workers in Britain

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Their accounts document their struggles to overcome discrimination and disadvantage to rebuild their lives in the book, Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945.

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New research networks to explore social media's impact, gender in literature and more

Oxford Arts Blog

How is social media affecting our behaviour?

Has the gender of an author influenced whether their work is accepted into the literary ‘canon’?

These are among the questions being explored by four new research networks at Oxford University.

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Oxfordshire Green Paper outlines vision for region as 'innovation engine'

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Key leaders from across Oxfordshire have joined together to set out a vision for the future prosperity of the region. 
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Oxford study finds virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia

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Virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia by allowing people to face situations that they fear, an Oxford University study with patients from the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has found....
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Statin treatment before heart surgery does not prevent heart damage or atrial fibrillation

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Giving daily doses of statins for a few days before and after heart surgery does not prevent heart muscle damage or the development of atrial fibrillation (AF), according to an international...
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Could teachers do less marking for better results?

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The report, A Marked Improvement?,  by the University of Oxford and the charity, Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), says there needs to be more research into which marking strategies really work, but it also identifies some approaches that do make a difference.

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Teenage boys in India given better food than girls

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The gender gap in diet appears to be particularly marked in families that have high aspirations for their children's education.

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New shuttle bus service to link Oxfordshire's key science campuses

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A new shuttle bus service linking the University of Oxford's science area with Harwell Science and Innovation Campus and the Old Road Campus is to begin in July.

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