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\n \n 14 December 2021\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nScientists have discovered a new potential treatment that has the ability to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria that cause conditions such as sepsis, pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST), a \u00a317m collaboration aiming to translate sustainable chemical technology research into commercial products, recently launched in Swindon.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford chemists have made a breakthrough towards successfully producing sustainable aviation fuel directly from air (CO2 source) and water (H2 source).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOxford Nanopore Technologies, a company which began as a spinout from the Department of Chemistry, has floated on the London Stock Exchange. It is the UK's biggest spinout IPO and the 5th biggest worldwide.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAMR could render many of the current mainstay and last-resort antibiotics useless, resulting in many more deaths from previously treatable infections. In 2019, a UN report estimated that drug-resistant microbes could lead to ten million deaths per year, and cost the world $100trn, by 2050.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFive of the new Fellows are from MPLS Division. The Fellowships have been created by UKRI to help develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProfessor Jonathan Doye from the Department of Chemistry writes about his research.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nInformation 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.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA 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\u2010sensitive protein in the eye.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThis is a new post, which will work in support of the priorities in the University Strategic Plan 2018-2023 and the Knowledge Exchange Strategy, around innovation and entrepreneurship.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIneos, one of the world\u2019s largest manufacturing companies, and the University of Oxford are launching a new world-leading institute to combat the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which currently causes an estimated 1.5 million excess deaths each year.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nEuropean Research Council grants worth more than \u20ac16.3 million have been awarded to University of Oxford researchers for a range of cutting-edge projects.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new institute for nanoscience research is to open in Oxford thanks to a $10 million gift from The Kavli Foundation.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThree MPLS academics and researchers have been awarded 2020 IOP Medals for their contributions to Physics - two in the Department of Physics and one in the Department of Chemistry.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nLeading lights at Oxford University paved the way towards Oxford\u2019s goal of global, rapid and equitable access to a safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine by facilitating an innovative public-private agreement for the manufacture and distribution of Oxford\u2019s vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Harrington Discovery Institute (HDI) in the US has announced five winners of its inaugural UK Rare Disease Scholar Award competition.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCurrently, most of the 4.9 billion tonnes of plastics ever produced will end up in landfills or the natural environment, and this number is expected to increase to around 12 billion tonnes by 2050.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA team of scientists at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Oxford University, led by Professor Ben Davis and Professor Veronique Gouverneur, have created a light-activated system that allows new side-chains to be grafted on to proteins, paving the way for a host of applications in areas such as drug development or vaccines.
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