(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University spinoff company, Oxford Nonopore has announced at this year’s Advances in Genome Biology and Technology conference in Florida, two new machines for sequencing genes. Of particular note ...
A team of scientists led by the University of Oxford have achieved a significant breakthrough in detecting modifications on protein structures. The method, published in Nature Nanotechnology, employs innovative nanopore technology ...
Bio & Medicine
Aug 1, 2023
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Researchers at Oxford University have discovered that a newly discovered group of cells can help repair tissues in the body.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 18, 2019
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It is the defining moment that demonstrates a QUT physicist was correct in pointing out a 99-year-old mistake to one of the world's most authoritative dictionaries.
General Physics
Apr 23, 2014
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A team of palaeontologists is claiming to have "resurrected" Brontosaurus, the famous long-necked, pot-belled dinosaur. No, they haven't conducted some mad DNA cloning experiment. They have built a big new family tree of ...
Archaeology
Apr 7, 2015
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Over the past decade, selfies have become a mainstay of popular culture. If the #selfie hashtag first appeared in 2004, it was the release of the iPhone 4 in 2010 that saw the pictures go viral. Three years later, the Oxford ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2021
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Researchers have completed the first phase of the world's most extensive digital archive of Scottish Gaelic texts as part of a landmark project to revolutionise access and understanding of the language to public around the ...
Social Sciences
Oct 29, 2014
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The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" -- as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook -- its word of the year on Monday.
Other
Nov 16, 2009
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(Phys.org) -- Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John's College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.
Archaeology
Apr 12, 2012
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Turns out we can thank a guy named Bacon for the concept of "taste," as in properly discerning the relative value of cultural goods.
Other
Nov 3, 2021
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