The Oxford Times | Bioline

At the cutting edge

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:42:48 +0000

It is a truism that new technology is often a product looking for a market. In contrast, Oxford University spinout Oxtex’s novel tissue expander is truly an original approach driven purely by clinicians’ demands.

Intelligent Ultrasound

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:49:14 +0000

Ultrasound is so named because it is beyond the limits of normal human hearing and so is inaudible. Medical scanning and diagnosis with ultrasound — ultrasonography — has been employed for many years, particularly to produce a scan of a womb and foetus to check the baby is developing normally.

Seeking a cure

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:56:23 +0100

T wenty years ago, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were not foreseen as serious problems, at least in terms of scale.

Doing more with less

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:00:00 +0100

The Beyond Borders report is a highly accurate barometer of the industry. Combining penetrating insight, clear-cut data and comment from movers and shakers across the globe, it cuts through all the anecdotes, rumours and frequent hype to give a clear picture.

Zyoxel

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:10:00 +0100

With huge sums being invested by industry and academia in drug research, headlines such as ‘Scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in the treatment of…’, followed by the name of a significant disease, are commonplace in the media.

Key to the cell doors

Thu, 19 May 2011 08:00:00 +0100

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that contains the instructions for the development and operation of living organisms. Each organism has one complete DNA code, known as a genome, and a copy of this genome is found in that organism's cells.

Furthering the quest

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:21:58 +0100

Oxford Expression Technologies featured in this column exactly a year ago. The company, based at Oxford Brookes University, develops and produces harmless viruses that are used to discover new drugs. Now it has linked with a Dutch company to offer a major improvement to its services.

OrganOx medical device

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:30:00 +0000

Ask people: “When was the first organ transplant?” and they may well say Dr Christiaan Barnard’s successful heart swap operation in 1967.

New kid goes native

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:00:00 +0000

The term superbug is probably over-hyped, but it is impossible to escape the fact that there is a threat to health from a growing number of harmful and potentially lethal viral and bacterial infections.

Wireless patient monitoring

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:50:00 +0000

Patient monitoring systems, which check and record various aspects of condition and physiology, are generally bulky, expensive and confined to intensive care units.