12 September 2023
\n \n \n \nNew research co-led by the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU, Department of Biology) has revealed alarming data about dwindling lion populations in Africa, but gives new insight into conservation strategies.
\n \n\n \n \n11 September 2023
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford\u2019s Botanic Garden and the Mathematical Institute have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines the type of prey they trap. The results have been published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
\n \n\n \n \n10 September 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor EJ Milner-Gulland and other researchers from the Department of Biology/Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science explore how the ecological compensation system in China works.
\n \n\n \n \n1 September 2023
\n \n \n \nA feature article on the work of Dr Tin (Henry) Hung (Department of Biology) to save Dalbergia, the rosewood tree, which is severely threatened across all countries in its distribution range.
\n \n\n \n \n29 August 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Egil Dr\u00f6ge, researcher in the Department of Biology, is sceptical of rumours that big cats are on the loose in Britain.
\n \n\n \n \n22 August 2023
\n \n \n \nUniversity of Oxford researchers have contributed to the first successful extraction of ancient DNA from a 2,900 year-old clay brick. The analysis provides a fascinating insight into the diversity of plant species cultivated at that time and place, and could open the way to similar studies.
\n \n\n \n \n9 August 2023
\n \n \n \nA team including Oxford chemists has shown that influential reports of magnetic field effects on Drosophila (fruit fly) behaviour cannot be reproduced. Drosophila have been widely used as a model organism for studying the mechanism of the magnetic compass sense of migratory songbirds.
\n \n\n \n \n3 August 2023
\n \n \n \nSamuel Johhnson, DPhil student in Mathematical Biology in the Mathematical Institute, discusses how research from mathematicians, biologists and social scientists is helping us understand swarming and harness its power.
\n \n\n \n \n13 July 2023
\n \n \n \nIn the most comprehensive survey to date, researchers have revealed the scale of plastic pollution on coral reefs, even at great depths. These results, however, suggest promising strategies to better protect these biodiversity hotspots.
\n \n\n \n \n12 July 2023
\n \n \n \nA new study from the Department of Biology has revealed that two-fifths of species likely threatened by the international wildlife trade are not covered by the global agreement that regulates it.
\n \n\n \n \n12 July 2023
\n \n \n \nA research study led by researchers in the Department of Biology provides a transformational new insight into how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) emerges in patients with bacterial infections which could help develop more effective interventions to prevent AMR infections developing in vulnerable patients.
\n \n\n \n \n29 June 2023
\n \n \n \nNeil D\u2019Cruze, Visiting Researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) in the Department of Biology and Jennah Green, Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, write about South Africa\u2019s controversial legal industry of breeding lions in captivity and explain why it should be shut down.
\n \n\n \n \n23 June 2023
\n \n \n \nMaisie Vollans from the Department of Biology investigates changes to the way we smell that can really stop us from being bitten by mosquitoes.
\n \n\n \n \n17 June 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessors Milner-Gulland (Department of Biology), and Paul Newman and Alison Noble (Department of Engineering Science) are amongst the Oxford academics recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.
\n \n\n \n \n5 May 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Jani R. Bolla, Department of Biology, has been awarded \u20ac1.5m to support research into the assembly of critical membrane proteins.
\n \n\n \n \n5 May 2023
\n \n \n \nLearn to think like a plant: five questions to think about if you want to keep your houseplants healthy.
\n \n\n \n \n25 April 2023
\n \n \n \nResearch led by Dr Craig MacLean, Department of Biology, has shown that overuse of antimicrobials in livestock production can drive the evolution of bacteria more resistant to the first line of the human immune response, and that farmed pigs and chickens could harbour large reservoirs of cross-resistant bacteria.
\n \n\n \n \n21 April 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Paris Stefanoudis from the Department of Biology discusses the importance of ocean exploration and the snailfish which has broken the record for living at the deepest ocean depths known to humanity.
\n \n\n \n \n7 April 2023
\n \n \n \nProfessor Craig MacLean, Professor Tim Coulson and Professor Dame Carol Robinson have all been awarded the prestigious grants recognising ground-breaking projects.
\n \n\n \n \n6 April 2023
\n \n \n \nDr Katrina Davis, Department of Biology, highlights the importance of understanding the impact of future threats including climate change, more renewable energy infrastructure and disease outbreak.
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