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\n \n\n \n5 January 2018
\n \n \n \nCongratulations to Prof Jackie Boultwood and Dr Andrea Pellagatti, who have been awarded a project grant from Leuka \u2013 a leading leukaemia research charity. Their work will focus on Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML), a blood cancer with a poor prognosis and limited treatment options.
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\n \n\n \n4 January 2018
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the MRC WIMM have discovered an unexpected way by which different pathways of the skin\u2019s defence system interact, and how they can go astray in skin inflammation. This research suggests a new line of investigation to develop treatments for conditions such as eczema.
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\n \n\n \n28 November 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers from OCDEM recently attended the \u2018Innovators in Diabetes\u2019 programme \u2013 a Diabetes UK-supported scheme now in its 10th year. The programme aims to create a vibrant diabetes research network and facilitate knowledge exchange. Dr Kerry McLaughlin, postdoctoral researcher in OCDEM and programme alumni, tells us more about the day.
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\n \n\n \n22 November 2017
\n \n \n \nThe number of people being diagnosed with heart failure in the UK continues to grow, and the poorest people are significantly more likely to be affected by the condition, new research from The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford has found. The research was co-led by Professor Kazem Rahimi, and RDM Principal Investigator.
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\n \n\n \n21 November 2017
\n \n \n \nA pioneering European research project aims to lead to new diagnostic tests to assess patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and identify those most at risk for developing severe inflammation and liver scarring. Researchers from the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research will play a key role in evaluating a series of biomarkers for NAFLD.
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\n \n\n \n1 November 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine have developed a new platform based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology, to alter the way human cells respond to external signals.
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\n \n\n \n21 September 2017
\n \n \n \nNew research shows that blood donors could safely give blood more frequently than is allowed at present. At the moment in the UK men can give blood every 12 weeks, women every 16 weeks. The new research demonstrates that in certain situations and for certain donors, shortening the donation interval is a viable approach for blood services to take.
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\n \n\n \n20 September 2017
\n \n \n \nThe Diabetes Trials Unit have published the results of two mega-trials, involving over 20,000 participants and 36 countries, shedding new light of the impact of diabetes drugs on the cardiovascular system.
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\n \n\n \n24 August 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine have developed a new type of MRI scan to predict the risk of having a stroke, thanks to funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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\n \n\n \n22 August 2017
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\n \n\n \n13 July 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers at the University of Oxford have developed a new type of imaging test to provide an early warning of coronary artery disease, and the risk of heart attacks.
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\n \n\n \n12 July 2017
\n \n \n \nAn Oxfordshire man who took part in fatty liver disease research after the condition was discovered through his role in an Ebola vaccine trial has urged others to participate in NHS research.
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\n \n\n \n27 June 2017
\n \n \n \nProteins found in tick saliva could be used to treat a potentially fatal form of heart disease, according to new research led by Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya and his team.
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\n \n\n \n14 June 2017
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\n \n\n \n30 May 2017
\n \n \n \nPerspectum Diagnostics \u2013 a spinout from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine \u2013 has reinvested money in the University of Oxford, to fund a three year multicentre European health economic study into methods of diagnosing fatty liver disease. This first of three payments totaling \u20ac759,999, is part of a \u20ac3.4m project, won by Perspectum in the H2020 grant competition.
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\n \n\n \n16 May 2017
\n \n \n \nResearchers have found a way to identify rogue cancer cells which survive treatment after the rest of the tumour is destroyed, by using a new technique that enables them to identify and characterise individual cancer cells.
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\n \n\n \n5 May 2017
\n \n \n \nAs part of International Day of the Midwife, Emma O\u2019Brien caught up with Yvonne Kenworthy \u2013 Lead Research Midwife in the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF), which is led by Prof Paul Leeson. CCRF facilitates high quality cardiovascular research within a clinical research environment with particular expertise in echocardiography, vascular assessment and clinical physiology.
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\n \n\n \n27 April 2017
\n \n \n \nScientists have shown that inactivating the same gene in mouse embryos that are virtually genetically identical can result in a wide range of different physical features or abnormalities.
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\n \n\n \n26 April 2017
\n \n \n \nA new method has been developed for observing the effects of drugs on heart cells under the microscope.
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\n \n\n \n6 April 2017
\n \n \n \nA new paper published in The Lancet Psychiatry sets out principles for responsibly testing innovative treatments for severe depression, based on treating more than 100 patients with approximately 1,000 infusions of ketamine over six years in Oxford.
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