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Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new drug delivery system using ultrasound-activated nanoparticles to break through and destroy bacterial biofilms. This offers a promising solution that could address the global crisis of chronic antibiotic-resistant infections affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

In the study, researchers including Oxford archaeologists Shadreck Chirikure and Helena Hamerow considered the implications for wealth distribution of variation in house sizes and their storage capacities within settlements, and how land use and farming practices impacted this variation. They found that in regions with land-intensive farming systems, such as those with specialised animal traction for ploughing, high wealth inequality became persistent, with a small number of households controlling productive land.

Prof. Andrew Thompson, a leading expert in global and imperial history in the Faculty of History at Oxford University, has presented a new Framework of Analysis for Modern Slavery & Human Traf

The University of Oxford in partnership with the Coler Lab at Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI) has begun a new clinical trial called TB045, which aims to test tuberculosis (TB) vaccine sa

The University of Oxford in partnership with the Coler Lab at Seattle Children's Research Institute (SCRI) has begun a new clinical trial called TB045, which aims to test tuberculosis (TB) vaccine sa

Belief in the kindness of others is much more closely tied to happiness than previously thought, according to World Happiness Report 2025 , p ublished by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

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The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford has launched the Centre for Democratic Resilience , a new research centre dedicated to understanding and promoting the resilience of liberal democracy in Europe, the United States, and beyond.

In a Nature perspective paper, scientists across Africa, America, Asia, Australia, and Europe outline for the first time how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform the landscape of infectious disease research and improve pandemic preparedness. A new study published in Nature outlines for the first time how advances in AI can accelerate breakthroughs in infectious disease research and outbreak response.

Research by experts at the Department of Paediatrics , and published in the European Journal of Paediatrics shows that early interventions of support to the development of children living in disadvantaged settings, can significantly improve their neurodevelopmental outcomes during early childhood.

Oxford researchers are to lead and co-lead on two MRC research centres, which are being launched to develop new advanced treatments for currently untreatable diseases.

The results of a clinical tria l'into a new malaria vaccine candidate (RH5.1/Matrix-MTM) show it is well-tolerated and offers effective protection against the blood-stage of the disease - the first inoculation to do so.

The largest trial of its kind in the UK has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying programme can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimisation.

Researchers from the University of Oxford have collaborated with the United Nations (UN) on a new report that focuses on the legal recognition,Öland rights and mobility (including transboundary movement) of Mobile Indigenous Peoples.

Study shows how international student mobility can reduce poverty in low and middle-income countries A new study exploring the effects of international student mobility has found that foreign-educated graduates reduce extreme poverty in low and middle-income countries.

Researchers have been awarded funding from Cancer Research UK to create the world's first vaccine to prevent ovarian cancer.

Oxford researchers have recorded the wettest month in Oxford in 250 years at the Radcliffe Meteorological Station.

The first participants have been recruited in Oxford for a new multinational clinical trial that will investigate whether a novel treatment can help slow the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

A landmark GRAM Project study of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden over time forecasts a sharp rise in deaths, with 39 million lives lost between now and 2050. Resistance to antibiotics led to at least one million deaths each year since 1990, with increasing rates of drug-resistant infections expected to claim more than 39 million lives between now and 2050 without further policy action, according to a landmark study by the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project.

The impact of social factors such as poverty and abuse on suicide need to be recognised and action taken to address them, according to a major series of papers published in the Lancet Public Health on World Suicide Prevention Day.

Yellowstone Biosciences, a biotechnology spinout, has launched to pioneer new cancer treatments using advanced T-cell therapies based on ground-breaking research from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at University of Oxford.

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Oxford University Physics Department , IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC), and various national forecasting and meteorology agencie

A new survey of public opinion research reveals the overwhelming majority around the world support more ambitious efforts, and want to overcome geopolitical differences, to fight climate change.

The LENS trial has demonstrated that fenofibrate, a drug usually used to lower cholesterol, reduces the risk of progression of diabetic retinopathy by 27%.