Skip to content
The Oxford Scientist

The Oxford Scientist

The University of Oxford's independent science magazine

Newsletter
  • Home
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Features
  • Culture
  • Schools Competition
    • About the competition
    • FAQs
    • Past Winners & Runners Up
      • Schools Science Writing Competition 2023
      • Schools Writing Competition Michaelmas Term 2022
      • School’s Writing Competition Hilary Term 2021
      • Schools’ Writing Competition Trinity Term 2020
      • Schools’ Writing Competition Hilary Term 2020
      • Schools Writing Competition Michaelmas Term 2019
      • Schools Writing Competition Trinity Term 2019
      • Schools Writing Competition Hilary Term 2019
      • Schools Writing Competition Michaelmas Term 2018
      • Schools Writing Competition Hilary Term 2018
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • The Team
    • Our Sponsors
    • Contact Us
      • Subscriptions
      • Advertise With Us
    • Past Issues
      • Mysteries HT23
      • Barriers MT22
      • Networks TT22
      • Regeneration HT22
      • Change MT21
    • Bang! Science Magazine Archives
  • Get Involved
    • Join the team
    • Open Commissions
    • Write for us
  • Home
  • hiv drugs

hiv drugs

  • Change MT21
  • Features
  • Past Issues

A Tainted Past – the History of HIV

The Oxford ScientistMarch 2, 2022January 4, 2023016 mins

When discussing HIV, the term ‘the gay community’ often crops up. The gay community ‘accepts’ or ‘rejects’ something, it becomes enraged at lack of progress or vilification, it fights for its rights. What this terminology does is reduce a necessarily diverse community into a homogenous whole.

Continue reading
  • Features
  • Oxbridge Varsity Sci 2020

New Hope for HIV Treatment

The Oxford ScientistOctober 22, 2020October 25, 202006 mins

Talk Summary by Sam van Druten Viruses are a prevalent topic of discussion nowadays. I thought it would be interesting to watch the Varsity Sci talks on virology to help me understand the subject better, and to help distinguish between the fake news and real facts making their way through the media. I was grateful…

Continue reading

Receive our Newsletter

* indicates required

Most Read

  • NHS
    A National Learning Healthcare Service: The future of the NHS?
  • Plastic pollution
    Bacteria: Taking a bite out of climate change
  • Flywheel
    The wheels on the bus… return of the flywheel
  • Animals
    Neo-taphonomy: From modern bones to the fossil record in Africa
  • CO2 Emissions
    Can waste carbon dioxide solve the global plastics problem?

Brainwaves

Brainwaves
Opinion
What happens when your family turn into impostors?
Newsmatic - News WordPress Theme 2023. Powered By BlazeThemes.
  • About
  • Get Involved
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Cookie Policy (UK)
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}