While they may be small in size, a family of tiny molecules called microRNAs could potentially play a large role in the process of cancer metastasis, or the spread of cancer from one area of the body to another. A team of researchers from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) and Princeton ... READ MORE
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JR is home to UK’s most powerful scanner
On Sunday 31st July weighing in at 35 tonnes, the new 7 Tesla magnet scanner was lowered into place by a crane through the ceiling of the Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) where it will be used for clinical trials into to help researchers further understand brain disorders, such ... READ MORE
Professor Peter Ratcliffe and oxygen levels
To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, they are publishing a series of 14 features on people who have been significant in the Trust’s history. In this final piece, science writer Anjana Ahuja looks at Peter Ratcliffe, the Professor of ... READ MORE
Gas license helps lung patients
The Radiology Department at the Churchill Hospital (part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust) has just been licensed to manufacture Hyperpolarised Xenon gas for patient use. This is only the second site in the UK to be granted permission to use the gas for lung imaging. Clinical trials ... READ MORE
Patients tell of their experience of TIAs and minor strokes
Healthtalkonline is a website that provides a rich resource of more than 2,000 people's experiences of health and illness. It’s also a great source of reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support. Adding to the growing list of diseases covered by Healthtalkonline is a new ... READ MORE
Formal collaboration announced
The University of Oxford and the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust have signalled their intention to cement and strengthen their collaboration in research, teaching and patient care by agreeing terms for a formal and legally-binding relationship. There has been a long history of joint working ... READ MORE
Joint funding for multiple sclerosis research
The Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the MS Society have joined forces to fund a three year Clinical Research Fellowship to carry out translational research into basic or clinical aspects of multiple sclerosis (MS). The collaboration will support the research of Dr Oliver Leach, based within ... READ MORE
The Times Cheltenham Science Festival 2011
Once again the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (OxBRC) will be sponsoring Professor Russell Foster and his talk on The Rhythm of Life on Wednesday 8 June (2.30-3.30pm) at this year’s Times Cheltenham Science Festival. Cheltenham Town Hall and Imperial Gardens will be transformed between 7-12 ... READ MORE
Rare tumour’s ‘fingerprint’ used to develop cheap and reliable new test
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a cheap and reliable diagnostic test for a rare form of cancer. The test involves screening tumour samples for a particular molecular fingerprint unique to this cancer. Hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer (HLRCC) is a disorder ... READ MORE
What can be done about the rising risk of antibiotic resistance?
On December 11th 1945, at the end of his Nobel lecture, Alexander Fleming sounded a warning. Fleming’s chance observation of the antibiotic effects of a mould called Penicillium on one of his bacterial cultures had inspired his co-laureates, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, two researchers based in ... READ MORE
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