Gut feelings: could your gut hold the key to Parkinson’s disease?
Waywen Loh delves into the rich diversity of the micoorganisms residing in our gut, and the therapeutic applications understanding it has.
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University of Oxford will now use UCAT as admission test for medicine applications
Alina Ahsan evaluates the decision of the University of Oxford to switch to the UCAT admissions test for medicine.
The Oxford Scientist Schools Competition 2024
Updates for The Oxford Scientist Schools Competition 2024.
How scientists are building a library of the brain’s dysfunctional pathways
SungJung Cho reports on a new study that has detailed dysfunctional neural circuits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.
Hope for HIV vaccine—antibodies protect animals against infection in pilot study
Sinibaldo Romero Arocha reports on new findings that broadly neutralising antibodies confer protection against HIV in a primate study.
Discovering the stars: The need for gender equality in space
Olivia Allen discusses the gender inequality experienced by Bell Burnell, notably how her discovery gave her male colleagues a Nobel Prize.
To capture time: Investigating timekeeping, collecting, and colonialism at Oxford’s History of Science Museum
Julia Granato explores the colonial history of many exhibitions in Britain and how a new exhibit at Oxford is trying to acknowledge its past.
New research reveals how a 12-millimetre fish is as loud as a gunshot
George Rabin discusses how new research on the Danionella cerebrum equate its noises to that of an aircraft and gunshot.
Lost legacies: Western medicine’s appropriation of Indigenous psychedelic wisdom
Athina Metaxa explores how the Western psychedelic renaissance can threaten Indigenous communities and initiatives created to mitigate such.
More than a diagnosis: recognising FASD
Lily Massey discusses common consequences, vulnerabilities and upbringings associated with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.