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\n \n 13 May 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA collaborative research team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge co-led by DPAG's Associate Professor Ana Domingos have developed a new weight-loss amphetamine that could potentially avoid the harmful side effects of traditional treatments.
\n \n\n\n \n 29 April 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPAG's Associate Professor Mathilda Mommersteeg and Professor Paul Riley, in collaboration with Professor Robin Choudhury from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine, will perform single cell analysis of inflammation during heart regeneration with a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nNew collaborative research from the Mommersteeg Group and MRC WIMM researchers shows that a protein called Runx1 plays a significant role in the formation of the cardiac scar that forms after the heart is injured, a scar that is known to inhibit heart regeneration. In the zebrafish, a freshwater fish known to be able to fully regenerate its heart after damage, they show that the absence of Runx1 results in enhanced regeneration. This indicates a potential new therapeutic target for heart repair.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPAG scientists develop single-cell oxygen saturation imaging to study oxygen handling by red blood cells. New physiological techniques that measure the blood's oxygen saturation are particularly important in light of the current pandemic, as COVID-19 patients present an abnormally low concentration of oxygen in the blood.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCongratulations are in order for Postdoctoral Research Scientist Dr Samuel Malone who was been awarded the Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship, funded by the European Commission.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFunding for Oxford\u2019s COVID-19 research requires unprecedented speed, scope and ambition. Please make a gift.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPAG's Denis Noble has collaborated with Wood Group researchers in the Department of Paediatrics to produce innovative podcast talks on a prominent global platform, the Future Tech Podcast, following the successful DPAG hosted fourth annual Oxosome meeting. Following the release of the final podcast talk in February 2020, today we chart the story leading to these innovative pieces of public engagement.
\n \n\n\n \n 31 January 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDPAG's Dr Jakub Tomek and Professor Blanca Rodriguez's Computational Cardiovascular Science Team have developed a new computer model that recreates the electrical activity of the ventricles in a human heart. In doing so, they have uncovered and resolved theoretical inconsistencies that have been present in almost all models of the heart from the last 25 years and created a new human heart model that could enable more basic, translational and clinical research into a range of heart diseases and potentially accelerate the development of new therapies.
\n \n\n\n \n 30 January 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAn immune cell is shown for the first time to be involved in creating the scar that repairs the heart after damage. The Riley Group study was funded by the British Heart Foundation and led by BHF CRE Intermediate Transition Research Fellow Dr Filipa Sim\u00f5es.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe experience a wide range of sounds at varying levels. The brain's auditory neurons constantly adapt their responses to changes in sound level to help us perceive and understand what we hear. King Group researchers have previously demonstrated how these neurons do this and have now produced new evidence for exactly where this happens in the brain and the perceptual consequences of these adaptations.
\n \n\n\n \n 15 January 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe severity of Zika virus-related deformations in babies has been shown to be affected by environmental factors such as maternal nutrition. The study was partially funded by a joint MRC Grant between DPAG's Professor Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r and Associate Professor Patricia Garcez of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA news and views article published in Nature Immunology by Domingos Group researchers examines significant recent research revealing how group 3 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3s), the cells responsible for protecting the gut and maintaining intestinal homeostasis, are regulated. In doing so, they also reveal important new research avenues of ILCs activation in the body.
\n \n\n\n \n 8 January 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFor many years, we have been using beta-blockers to neutralise a specific stress hormone and prevent dangerous heart rhythms following a heart attack. However, a new study led by Associate Professor Neil Herring and published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered evidence for an additional stress hormone acting as a key trigger for dangerous heart rhythms that is not currently targeted by these drugs.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nUCLA Researchers in collaboration with DPAG researchers from the Paterson and Herring Groups have identified a biomarker for increased risk of early mortality in patients with heart failure. Associate Professor Neil Herring is senior author.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 January 2020\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nProf Robin Klemm will be joining our department in June 2020 as the Associate Professor of Physiological Metabolism. Research in the Klemm lab focuses primarily on understanding the molecular cell biology of professional fat storing cells called white adipocytes.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIt's a new year (and a new decade!) and many of us will be looking to turn over a new leaf when it comes to diet and lifestyle. But - as anyone who's tried one will know - diets are very difficult to stick to. In a new episode of the Big Questions podcast, Associate Professor Heidi de Wet answers \"Why do diets fail?\". She also provides some great tips for a healthier lifestyle along the way!
\n \n\n\n \n 19 December 2019\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study led by Dr Armin Lak suggests that we learn best when we make decisions outside of our comfort zone, and sheds light on how the brain might achieve this.
\n \n\n\n \n 11 December 2019\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new review from the Domingos Lab, authored by Chelsea Larabee, Oliver Neeley and Ana Domingos, examines the intersection between neuroimmunology and immunometabolism, and in doing so reveals the existence of an exciting new area of study.
\n \n\n\n \n 10 December 2019\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nAssociate Professor Ana Domingos reviews the identification of the hormone leptin and explores its significance in the function of immune cells in obesity.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOur Researchers at the Oxford Parkinson\u2019s Disease Centre have shown that cell recycling in Parkinson\u2019s may play a more complex role than previously thought.
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