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Driving policy change to prevent maternal deaths

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The MBRRACE programme is influencing policy and services to support pregnant women and prevent maternal deaths.
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Boosting life chances for resettled refugees

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Software developed by an international team including Dr Alex Teytelboym from Oxford University is helping to resettle refugees in communities where they are more likely to flourish.
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SIMON Says…

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Researchers at Oxford Vaccine Group have developed machine learning software to predict the efficacy of flu vaccines, offering huge potential for other vaccine research.
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Right book… right time… right place

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Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and colleagues have developed the award-winning LitHits app, which allows users to access great literature in unexpected ways.
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Blow-up in Bissau

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A photographic exhibition organised by Dr Ramon Sarró and colleagues has helped re-establish the National Ethnographic Museum in Guinea-Bissau.
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New project explores the origins of money

The CHANGE Project is led by Professor Andrew Meadows, a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College and former Curator of Greek Coins at the British Museum.

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New research confirms obesity is a cause of kidney disease

Funded by Kidney Research UK and the Medical Research Council, this new study has found that fat all over the body increases risk, not just fat around the middle (tummy fat), and suggests controlling weight could be a new way to manage kidney disease risk.

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Trials of Oxford coronavirus vaccine begin in Kenya

Our vaccine work is progressing quickly.

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Oxford University creates its 200th spinout company PhishAR

The University of Oxford, through its research commercialisation arm Oxford University Innovation, has created its 200th company based on academic research, PhishAR.

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Global clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine resume

Our vaccine work is progressing quickly.

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Research finds that inadequate US pandemic response cost more American lives than World War I

Dr Janine Aron and Professor John Muellbauer’s research suggests that around 57,800 Americans would have survived had the US managed the pandemic as effectively as Europe. In other words, the US’s poor pandemic response may have cost the country more lives than World War I.

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Utility companies undermining global transition to net-zero emissions

The study, published in Nature Energy, is the first to investigate electric utilities on a global scale. Using a machine-learning technique, the research analyses the activities of more than 3,000 companies over the past two decades.

Persistent immune memory of COVID-19 found in recovered patient T cells

Persistent immune memory of COVID-19 found in recovered patient T cells

New research published in Nature Immunology show strong T cell responses in patients recovered from COVID-19Discovery of epitope clusters eliciting T cell response to inform an understanding of how patients recover from the disease and to support fu
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Tackling antibiotic resistance

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Jürgen Brem and colleagues in the Department of Chemistry are collaborating with academic and industry partners to develop therapies tackling antibiotic resistance.
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‘Complete Surrender’

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What can the writings of thirteenth-century female mystics teach us about love and spirituality in contemporary life? More than you might think, according to Complete Surrender, a short film produced by Oxford University’s Dr Louise Nelstrop and filmmaker Pol Herrmann.
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Operation Condor

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An Oxford University research project is helping to achieve justice for victims of transnational human rights abuses.
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Oxford leads development of risk prediction model for more tailored COVID-19 shielding advice

Developed in collaboration with a number of partner universities and NHS Digital, this new model could be applied in a variety of health and care settings, including supporting GPs and specialists in consultations with their patients to provide more targeted advice based on individual levels of r

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