A major step towards the large-scale production of silks with tailor-made properties Oxford University researchers have harnessed the natural defence mechanism of silkworms, which causes par... Read more
Inflated gas prices have put researchers and industry under pressure US lawmakers have taken a significant step towards averting a global crisis in helium supply, thanks to a bill passed by... Read more
In a world first, a donated human liver has been ‘kept alive’ outside a human being and then successfully transplanted into a patient in need of a new liver. So far the procedure... Read more
What if a drug could improve learning and cognition and had no untoward medical consequences? Wouldn’t it be justified to make it widely available? A group of scientists concluded three year... Read more
The multispectral-imaging scanner TECHNOLOGICAL spin-outs from universities usually start in the engineering department, the school of medicine or the faculty of physics. At Oxford, however,... Read more