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Researchers at the University of Oxford launched a Phase 1 trial to test a new vaccine against plague. Based on the ChAdOx1 adenovirus viral vector platform, forty healthy adults aged 18 to 55 will receive this new vaccine.

15 projects from across the UK have been awarded a total of £19.6 million to examine causes of Long COVID, trial drugs to tackle it, and investigate symptoms such as breathlessness and ‘brain fog’ that have become synonymous with the condition.

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Participation in elite adult rugby may be associated with changes in brain structure - this is the finding of a study of 44 elite rugby players, almost half of whom had recently sustained a mild head injury while playing.

Research findings published by women in elite medical journals are less likely to be cited than are similar articles authored by men, a study finds. The study, published in JAMA Network Open, examined citation data for more than 5,500 papers published between 2015 and 2018.

A detailed study of the weapons bacteria use to defeat their rivals has revealed a brand new target for antibiotics. The finding could lead to a new class of antibiotics, as well as providing a method for finding other new targets by exploiting the tricks of bacterial warfare.

According to a new study by researchers at Imperial College London and the Francis Crick Institute, people who attend hospital for their dialysis treatment (haemodialysis) could benefit from an early third dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

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Urban and housing design has intimate connections to health. Poor design choices can worsen health, with underlying issues of inequality a driving factor.

For years, most research indicated that older adults experience a decline in brain functioning across the board. However, a new observational study, which appears in Nature Human BehaviourTrusted Source, suggests that may not be true.

Why we sleep, and the processes behind sleep, are amongst the most interesting questions in modern neuroscience. Researchers at the University of Oxford have now uncovered a new target for sleep investigations within the mammalian brain – the cerebral cortex.