University of Oxford

A collaborative study led by the University of Oxford as part of the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project, published in Nature Genetics, has defined five new subgroups of the most common type of blood cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)…

Setting out a new roadmap to net zero, the HLEG report states, ‘There have been 29 disasters, which cost over $1 billion each so far this year.'It continues, ‘The impacts of these crises have been felt everywhere, but they have been most…

The research, published in The BMJ and funded by the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), used 20 years’ worth of data from 1.7 million anonymised healthcare records to develop the…

Homicide deaths accounted for the largest disparity among young adults, and were 20 times as high for black males and six times as high for black females when compared to their white counterparts. Homicide was the main cause of death for…

Kaya Axelsson, who is a technical author for the guidelines, says, ‘People are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to false climate claims.’She points out, ‘These new guidelines mean when we see products and…

The study involved analysing social network data from a population of non-captive macaques on the island of Cayo Santiago, off Puerto Rico, and combining this with sequencing data to assess their individual gut microbiota.The researchers…

The rankings, announced at the THE World Academic Summit in New York, rate more than 1,600 universities from around 100 countries globally. The ratings consider 13 calibrated performance indicators, measuring each institution’s…

The announcement coincides with Black History Month, which is being marked at the school and is a fitting tribute to this year’s theme ‘Time for Change: Action Not Words’.The scholarships are intended to support exceptional future leaders…

Accepting its first students in October 2023, the postgraduate diploma is the University’s first academic qualification designed to be taken wholly online and will transform Oxford’s ability to reach and train researchers in the most…

In their findings published in Nature Medicine, the researchers found people carrying an allele (version) of an HLA gene called HLA-DQB1*06 generated a higher antibody response than those who did not.The researchers also found that people…