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OPDC researchers support World Parkinson’s Day 2025

22 April 2025

A photographic image showing Cholinergic interneuron networks (green) embedded within dense matrix of dopamine axon arbours and varicosities in mouse striatum (red).

New Cragg lab paper published in Nature Neuroscience - Acetylcholine and dopamine: friends or foes?

17 March 2025

Oil walls microfluidic offer a new and flexible technology of studying neuronal circuits in vitro using hiPSCs. A. Circuit designed using fluid-walls technology. B. Cortical neurons within the fluid-walls show projections across compartments. C. TH+ dopamine projections (orange) and neuronal axons (red). D. labelling of GPCR adenosine A1 receptor (green) and TH+ dopamine neurons (orange).

Oxford biologists and engineers awarded £2 million to grow human neurons as brain circuits in chambers made of oil

14 February 2025

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Professor Irene Tracey, Vice-Chancellor Elect of the University of Oxford, Warden of Merton College and Professor of Anaesthetic Neuroscience, opening the event.

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