Microbes across Earth’s coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating carbon release and potentially amplifying climate change, according to a new international review from McGill University. Drawing on data from polar and...

How can we explain the onset of psychotic symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia? Despite their major and often irreversible impact on intellectual abilities and autonomy, the biological mechanisms that precede their emergence remain poorly understood. A team from the Department of Psychiatry...

By Professor Sir Dave Stuart FRS, Director of Life Sciences at Diamond Light Source and MRC Professor of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford. Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years - that is up...

A University of Oxford spinout has won the £50,000 MacRobert Award, the longest running and most prestigious prize for UK engineering innovation, for its life-saving technology that is supporting more organ transplants and helping to cut waiting lists. OrganOx has...

Biomedical scientists have discovered a protein called SAS-6 that controls how cells divide can stave off the spread of cancer.  SAS-6 makes cells grow more and longer cilia – tiny antennae that sense their surroundings. These cilia activate a pathway...

Novel nanomaterials may protect against neurological diseases through their antioxidant abilities. At Texas A&M AgriLife Research, a new branch of brain science is blooming at the molecular scale – with nanoflowers. A study published in The Journal of Biological Chemistry demonstrated...

Recent levelling-off signals a maturing sector, says Ian Lloyd, Senior Director, Citeline. The pharmaceutical R&D ecosystem has never been bigger. The global drug pipeline now approaches 24,713 active targets, with numbers increasing 145% from January 2010 to January 20251 – a...

Scientists have identified a brain circuit which is central to the social difficulties experienced by people with autism spectrum disorders. From birth, human survival depends on the ability to engage with others. This ability, which is essential for development, seems...

The threat of microplastics – tiny fragments of plastic pollution – discovered inside the arteries that feed the human brain need urgent investigation, say campaigners. Alarming new scientific findings have come from a preliminary study led by Dr. Ross Clark,...