Cells provide ray of hope

11:07am Thursday 17th January 2013

Multiple myeloma is the clinical name for bone marrow cancer. A disease that often attacks those in their 60s and 70s, it can be slowed but not cured. It is the second largest blood-based cancer after lymphoma.

Independent thinking

Restaurateur Clinton Pugh

9:00am Thursday 15th November 2012

T he trend among a certain section of society, so I am told, is to avoid brands and show your individuality.

Rooting out intolerance

9:00am Thursday 15th November 2012

Diabetes is now a worldwide epidemic. In 1985, an estimated 30 million people across the globe, a figure which had leapt to 285 million by 2009, of which 90-95 per cent is Type 2.

Monitoring mums-to-be

Dr Michelle Fernandes

9:00am Thursday 18th October 2012

Newborn babies are unlikely to win prizes unless their mother is Michelle Fernandes. Her baby is, fittingly, Oxford-based start-up FoetoH, which is developing a portable wireless foetal cardiac monitor.

Frontiers of medicine

Paul Workman

9:00am Thursday 16th August 2012

Finding effective treatments for cancers of every kind has long been the holy grail for research scientists. Drugs and therapies have improved markedly, especially in recent years, with increases in survival rates and even complete cures.

Channel hopping

Destination: Jersey

8:00am Thursday 16th August 2012

Suddenly, Jersey is on Oxfordshire’s doorstep. From Oxford, you simply take the excellent shuttle service to the airport at Kidlington (now calling itself London Oxford Airport) and take off for the warmest place in the British isles.

Funding at the cutting edge

Russ Cummings, Susan Searle and Julian Smit

8:20am Thursday 19th July 2012

Private Frazer’s famous catchphrase from the TV classic, Dad’s Army, ‘We’re all doomed!’, seems to have permeated the British psyche.Open any newspaper and it would be easy to believe the last trump is truly nigh.

Knight of the Round Table

8:30am Thursday 21st June 2012

One problem employers find with new graduates is that they lack any knowledge of business. Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable (OBR) aims to build bridges between academia and industry.

Targeting cancer

Dr John Beadle of Psioxus with Jo Szegota of Milton Park

4:14pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

It is said of some cancers, such as prostate, that you often die with them, not of them. Cancers and other diseases too, including heart problems, HIV and liver failure, bring with them wasting or cachexia.

Fighting fever

3:48pm Thursday 15th March 2012

Dengue fever is virtually unknown in the United Kingdom, except for a few travellers who have contracted the disease abroad. It is a viral fever spread by the Aedes species of mosquito.

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