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The MinION is the smallest high-throughput DNA-sequencing device currently available.

Mini DNA sequencer’s data belies its size

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The mating choices of birds are naturally affected by their social environment, because it determines the number and availability of potential partners they can choose from.

Divorce in birds is affected by their social group

Studying bones and cartilage in the Medical Centre

Excellence in medical education recognised

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Professor Tom Higham takes a sample from finger bone attributed to St John the Baptist.

Launch of Oxford centre for the study of religious relics

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The University of Oxford is today releasing a set of sample interview questions from tutors who conduct Oxford interviews.

Oxford interview questions explained

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Illustration of an HIV virus in the bloodstream

HIV: researchers find that ‘biomarkers’ can predict virus remission in patients

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Chinese men smoking

Smoking set to kill one in three young men in China

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Genetic responses to the stresses caused by antibiotics don’t help bacteria to evolve a resistance to the medications.

Genetic defences of bacteria don’t aid antibiotic resistance

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The Wandsworth Shield recovered from the Thames (British Museum) and a wooden roundel from Tuetka I, Altai Republic, Russian Federation (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg) date from Iron Age.

Does Celtic art have links with Asia?

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Simon Armitage to give inaugural Professor of Poetry lecture on 24 November

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