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« Back to NewsA unique international ‘zoom’ collaboration to develop treatments for COVID-19
17 September 2021
COVID-19 Chemistry Research Statistics
An international collaboration of 29 scientists around the world has focused on understanding how SARS-COV-2 makes its worker proteins at the molecular level in order to develop novel antiviral drugs that block their production.
Troubled waters: How global marine wildlife protection can undermine fishing communities
16 September 2021
Biology Food security & biodiversity Research Zoology
New research led by the University of Oxford, published in Conservation Letters, has examined the conflict between small-scale fisheries and marine mammals, using the experience of fisheries on the west coast of South America to highlight a worldwide issue.
How Oxford University research is helping feed the world in the 21st century
16 September 2021
Biology Food security & biodiversity Plant sciences Research
New research published recently in the journal eLife sheds fresh light on plant chloroplasts, and the proteins inside them. The regulation of chloroplast proteins is important for plant development and stress acclimation and is increasingly significant as plants are having to respond to changing environments.
Coronavirus Epidemics first hit more than 21,000 years ago
3 September 2021
A new Oxford University Study, published today, shows that the most recent common ancestor of the SARS-CoV viruses existed more than 21,000 years ago, nearly 30 times older than previous estimates.
Reducing children’s exposure to malaria in their early years substantially cuts the risk of hospitalisation
2 September 2021
Medical science Research Zoology
For the first time in more than two decades, a team from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and University of Oxford (including Department of Zoology researchers) have quantified the risk of children suffering severe outcomes from malaria.
AI test screens for COVID-19 26% faster than lateral flow tests
1 September 2021
COVID-19 Engineering Medical science Research
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) test performed by the bedside in 10 minutes quickly and safely triages patients coming to hospital for COVID-19, a University of Oxford-led study has shown.
How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding
18 August 2021
Professor Jonathan Doye from the Department of Chemistry writes about his research.
Sharing vaccines between nations: a mathematical approach
17 August 2021
COVID-19 Maths Research Zoology
New research from the University of Oxford and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, published in Frontiers in Public Health, uses mathematical modelling to determine the most equitable way to share vaccines between nations.
New research on preventing infant deaths due to neonatal sepsis
10 August 2021
Antimicrobial resistance Chemistry Medical science Research Zoology
Information about the most effective antibiotics to use in low and middle income countries (LMICs) for neonatal sepsis has been discovered uniquely combining epidemiological, genomic and pharmacodynamic data.
New Oxford University research will help optimize environmentally friendly ways of fertilising plants
30 July 2021
Food security & biodiversity Plant sciences Research
New research from the Departments of Plant Sciences and Engineering Science, as well as collaborators at VU Amsterdam, uses both mathematical modelling and experimental validation to study the metabolic processes controlling how bacteria provide ammonia to legumes, which is vastly important for sustainable agriculture.
Ear to the ground: Locating elephants using ground vibrations
15 July 2021
Researchers from the University of Oxford, Mpala Research Center and Save the Elephants, have used a combination of acoustic microphones and seismometers to locate elephants.
Oxford researchers develop tool to predict where people go after a disaster
12 July 2021
Researchers at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), have developed an open source software package to estimate displaced populations post-disaster, currently with a focus on earthquakes and cyclones.
Oxford overseas research facility expands to include diagnostics and genetics testing centre
8 July 2021
Biomedical engineering COVID-19 Funding Medical science Physical sciences underpinning health Research
The Oxford-Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, known as OSCAR, has marked another significant milestone with the launch of OSCAR-Prenetics Innovation and Technology Centre for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics (the OSCAR-Prenetics ITC).
Artificial Intelligence pioneered at Oxford to detect floods launches into space
1 July 2021
AI and data science Computer science Engineering Research Space
A new technology, developed by Oxford researchers, in partnership with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Φ-lab, will pilot the detection of flood events from space. It was deployed on hardware on D-Orbit’s upcoming ‘Wild Ride’ mission being launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, 30 June, 20.00 UK time.
New study finds elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues
30 June 2021
Researchers at the University of Oxford and Save the Elephants have found evidence that African elephants (Loxodonta africana) listen and react to ground vibrations created by human activity.
Oxford scientists show how green mining could pave the way to net zero and provide the metals we need for a sustainable future
30 June 2021
Earth sciences Research Sustainability & the environment
Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences demonstrate how it is possible to directly extract valuable metals from hot salty fluids (‘brines’) trapped in porous rocks at depths of around 2km below dormant volcanoes.
Botanists name astonishing new species of ‘fairy lantern’ from Malaysian rainforests
29 June 2021
Food security & biodiversity Plant sciences Research
Oxford University scientist, Dr Chris Thorogood, from Oxford Botanic Garden teamed up with Siti-Munirah at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia, and local explorer, Dome Nikong, to describe a strange plant from the depths of the Malaysian rainforest.
A breakthrough development in Deep Reinforcement Learning
29 June 2021
Materials science Quantum Research
Dr Natalia Ares from the Department of Materials and a team from Oxford and the University of Basel have been working on a machine learning approach which could significantly accelerate the development of quantum technologies.
International collaboration sheds light on the mechanism of magnetic sensing in birds
23 June 2021
A collaboration of biologists, chemists and physicists from the Universities of Oxford (UK) and Oldenburg (Germany) have been accumulating evidence that the magnetic sense in night migratory birds, such as the European robin, is based on a specific light‐sensitive protein in the eye.
Global Jet Watch: discovery of jets in classical novae
11 June 2021
Scientists at the University of Oxford have discovered that classical nova explosions are accompanied by the ejection of jets of oppositely-directed hot gas and plasma, and that this persists for years following the nova eruption. Previously, such jets had only been encountered emanating from very different systems such as black holes or newly collapsing stars.