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The Radcliffe Department of Medicine Four Year DPhil Scholars Programme

The Oxford ScientistNovember 11, 2020November 12, 202203 mins

The Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford is a large, multi-disciplinary department, which aims to tackle some of the world’s biggest health challenges by integrating innovative basic biology with cutting edge clinical research. The department has internationally renowned programmes in a broad spectrum of sciences related to medicine, including: Cancer Biology Cardiovascular Science Cellular and Clinical…

Archangel Imaging—Our guardians at the gates

Nina SulkowskiJuly 4, 2020January 9, 2023011 mins

As our world is re-shaped by the global pandemic, the demand for creative and ethical business ventures is greater than ever. Indeed, the consequences of the virus have placed a spotlight on key gaps and inequalities in our world and in turn mobilized organizations to develop strategies to alleviate the current impact and safeguard our…

Close up image of a bumble bee on a leaf

Bees: Master Manipulators of Plants

James RaineyJune 27, 2020July 21, 2023015 mins

Admired both for their honey and complex societies, theologians and naturalists throughout the ages have looked to bees for inspiration. Every generation has found a virtue in the bee. Religious scholars praised bees for their tireless industry and the precision of the hexagonal cells used to build their hives, a gift from the divine. Darwin…

The Science Behind Racism: A Psychological Approach

Caroline WyattJune 23, 2020June 23, 2020045 mins

The reactions of many across the world to the recent atrocities in America have been varied. However, one common theme has been a greater desire for education, in the knowledge that understanding is the opposite of bigotry. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has sought to expose the extent of racism; it is a problem that is manifested…

Crowdless—an Oxford student’s start-up at the forefront of COVID-19 fight

Ava ChanJune 20, 2020January 5, 2023012 mins

The Oxford Foundry was established in 2017 by the University’s Said Business School as a space for developing a new generation of business ventures. The Foundry provides a springboard platform for start-up businesses founded by members of the University, with dedicated office space in central Oxford and support for early-stage ventures which show promise. One…

Fighting global health challenges with yeast – a talk by Professor Tom Ellis

Kate DickerMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020013 mins

Yeast: what is it good for? Well, quite a lot of things. In a talk recently given to the Oxford Synthetic Biology Society, Tom Ellis, professor of synthetic genome engineering at Imperial College London, explained how simple baker’s yeast can be utilised in the fight against global health challenges. Baker’s yeast, or Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is…

The Oxford Scientist: Breakthrough Issue

The Oxford ScientistMay 25, 2020December 10, 202001 mins

View our Hilary Term 2020 issue, Breakthrough, here. The Hilary 2020 issue of The Oxford Scientist is here! Packed full of articles looking at the past, present and future of groundbreaking scientific discovery.

Covid triggers poaching and destruction

Hannah KingMay 21, 2020January 5, 202307 mins

How a global pandemic has revealed the fragile relationships between endangered species, ecotourists and local communities. The rise in ecotourism has brought many species back from the cliff edge of extinction, but with the rapid spread of COVID-19 and the ensuing national lockdowns and holiday cancellations, many of the benefits brought by ecotourism may be…

Trapped in a glass home – A shrimp’s life in lockdown

Bianca PascaMay 18, 2020May 18, 2020011 mins

Below fathom five, at depths you cannot fathom, both of them have found their forever home. Now their kids are leaving to find their own houses of glass, but they have to be careful—because they, just like their parents, will then become trapped for the rest of their lives. They will look out at the…

The sleeping dragon – could lizards hold the secrets of human sleep?

Atreyi ChakrabartyMay 11, 2020May 11, 2020015 mins

Sleep is a phenomenon that ties us irrefutably to our relatives in the rest of the animal kingdom. The requirement to sleep is not only present in the most complex of organisms, such as Homo sapiens, but also in more primitive species, such as the jellyfish Cassiopoiea and the nematode C. Elegans. Even in light…