OxStem, an Oxford spin-out founded by Prof. Steve Davies, Prof. Angela Russell and DPAG's Prof. Dame Kay Davies, has raised a record \u00a316.9M to develop small molecule drug candidates to treat age-related conditions including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and heart failure.
What is the key to success for women who work in science? A new website, launched this week, delves into the experiences of successful women in science at the University of Oxford, through a collection of video narratives.
Final year DPhil and Wellcome Trust OXION student Hege Larsen was awarded the esteemed NCarnation award by the American Physiological Society at the Experimental Biology conference in San Diego last week.
Professor Vyazovskiy is part of a team of experts tasked by the European Space Agency with investigating whether and how we might be able to put humans into a state of stasis to enable long-distance space travel.
From 21st to 23rd March 2016, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics will host a white fibre dissection course covering the cortical and subcortical white fibre anatomy, which is the first of its kind in the country.
Gero Miesenb\u00f6ck has won a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for the development of optogenetics. He shares the \u20ac 400,000 prize with Edward Boyden of MIT and Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University.
We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat. When those signals go awry, the result is a potentially fatal arrhythmia. Now, a team of researchers from the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Stony Brook University has found a way to precisely control these waves \u2013 using light. Their results are published in the journal Nature Photonics.
Stimulating the heart to repair itself is within scientific touching distance, thanks in large part to the work of Professor Paul Riley and his team in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics
Dr Deborah Goberdhan and her team have identified a protein used by tumours to help them detect food supplies. Initial studies show that targeting the protein could restrict cancerous cells\u2019 ability to grow.
Most people can\u2019t tell their toes apart without looking. Some healthy people can 'lose' a toe if their eyes are closed. While most of us would assume we\u2019ve got a pretty good idea of where the various parts of our body are, research from Oxford University suggests we may have a problem telling our toes apart \u2013 with implications for the way our brains see our bodies.
According to Fernando Garc\u00eda-Moreno and Zolt\u00e1n Moln\u00e1r understanding development and evolution of the neocortex has important implications. Differential timing of developmental events sculpts the brains of different species into distinct organs. The latest investigations on the development of the dorsal forebrain in chick and mouse embryos showed a major difference between vertebrate brains. A delay in the neurogenic properties of a subset of progenitors is specific to mammals and could be responsible for the evolutionary origin of the corpus callosum...
A new collaborative drug discovery project in Friedreich\u2019s Ataxia (FA) between the University of Oxford, Ataxia UK, Pfizer Inc, UCL and Imperial College London was recently announced.
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics establish a link between talking to neighbours and an increase in gene expression in a paper published in the prestigious journal Cell Reports.
A potential new way to treat one of the world\u2019s most common lung diseases is to be investigated after a study found a link between sufferers\u2019 iron levels and worse health outcomes.
Dr Michael Kohl is interviewed for Oxford University's Research in Conversation series in which Oxford's medical researchers explain their work into understanding more about our relationship with sleep, learning, healthy eating and addiction.
Researchers in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics publish in the prestigious Molecular Cell an article entitled \"Distinct Spatial Ca2+ Signatures Selectively Activate Different NFAT Transcription Factor Isoforms\"
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