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Killer T cells show their kinder side, BRC researchers reveal

27 March 2018 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues

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The immune system protects the body by responding to invading organisms, but how is an attack on useful resident microbes prevented? Two NIHR Oxford BRC researchers have identified a pathway that allows immune cells to sense and respond to beneficial bacteria. The article by the Oxford BRC’s ... READ MORE

Oxford medical researchers win prestigious national awards

23 February 2018 · Listed under Gene and Cell Therapy, Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines, Metabolic Experimental Medicine, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics, Obesity, Diet and Lifestyle, Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, Preventive Neurology, Surgical Innovation, Technology and Evaluation

Leading health researchers in Oxford have been recognised in a prestigious national competition. Eight professors have been named National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Senior Investigators in recognition of their “outstanding contribution to clinical and applied health and social care ... READ MORE

HIV cure hope thanks to collaboration

4 October 2016 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues

Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new treatment that could kill all traces of the virus. A partnership sparked by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is behind this ... READ MORE

Treatment targets HIV’s last hiding place

14 July 2016 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Other News

Picture: Wellcome Trust UK scientists may have found a way to destroy HIV's last refuge. A study by Oxford University has confirmed that a treatment developed by a British company can remove the virus in its chosen hiding place, in laboratory conditions, offering hope of a viable ... READ MORE

Researchers find more uses for immune system’s ‘Swiss army knife’

23 June 2016 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Other News

Oxford University research supported by the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre has found that a little-studied and relatively unknown part of the human immune system could be twice as important as previously thought. Mucosal Associated Invariant T-cells (MAIT cells) were first identified in ... READ MORE

New TB test to get sufferers on right drugs sooner

24 June 2015 · Listed under Genomic Medicine, Inflammation across Tissues, Modernising Medical Microbiology and Big Infection Diagnostics

Tuberculosis sufferers will be able get drug treatment sooner thanks to a new whole genome sequencing technique to determine for the first time which drugs to give sufferers, researchers in Oxford have reported. University of Oxford researchers at the John Radcliffe Hospital have developed a ... READ MORE

Immune system talk draws crowds

16 June 2015 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Other News

More than 100 people attended the latest BRC talk about the human immune system and how it can help and attack the body. The University of Oxford’s Professor Paul Bowness spoke on “Autoimmunity – when our immune system turns on our bodies” at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Headington, on ... READ MORE

First trial of a new hepatitis C vaccine shows promise

4 January 2012 · Listed under Inflammation across Tissues, Life-saving Vaccines

A new vaccine against the chronic liver disease hepatitis C has shown promising results in a first clinical trial in humans, Oxford University researchers report. The vaccine, based on a modified cold virus, generated immune responses similar to those seen in the minority of people who are ... READ MORE

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