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...
Brianna Stubbs, DPhil student at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics wins Silver in the World Rowing Women's Lightweight Quadruple Sculls Championships.
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.
Oxford Parkinson\u2019s Disease Centre supporters Bobbie and Steve Coelho, Mary and Les Doherty and Dawn Huntley visited us from Andover to present a cheque following fundraising activities in and around Andover.
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.
This year\u2019s exercise for the Recognition of Distinction awards Stephen Goodwin, Richard Wade-Martins and Clive Wilson for their outstanding academic contribution to DPAG and to the wider University.
Sherrington Talks are organised at the end of Trinity Term each year and presented by DPAG graduate students in their third year of DPhil research study.
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.
Lizzie Burns is the joint winner of the \"Outreach and Public Engagement: TES Connect\" category for her work in collaboration with Zoltan Molnar and Damion Young entitled \u2018CSlide\u2019: a Nobel Prize-Winner Inspires Science, Art and Creativity.
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