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School of Biological and Medical Sciences news articles

15 November 2024

Oxford Brookes Helps Train Future Science Leaders

Oxford Brookes partners with leading institutions to train the next generation of researchers addressing global challenges in life and environmental sciences.

scientist in a lab

20 June 2024

Environmental scientist spends more than four decades researching a potential climate game-changer

In the ongoing fight against climate change, one remarkable discovery has gained significant attention over the past years: phytoliths.

Dr Martin Hodson

12 March 2024

Scientists find hundreds of unique species in Africa’s newest and most threatened ecoregion

After two decades of biological surveys and over 30 scientific expeditions, groundbreaking research in southern Africa has unearthed a wealth of previously undocumented biodiversity in a newly recognised ecoregion.

The heart of the Mabu Forest

30 September 2022

Oxford Brookes Enterprise Centre will boost biotech, digital and business innovation in Oxfordshire

Newly opened Oxford Brookes Enterprise Centre will boost biotech, digital and business innovation across Oxfordshire.

Professor Linda King with OxLEP's Nigel Tipple in the new labs

22 June 2022

Oxford Brookes awarded a £1.4M grant to develop tools to answer fundamental genetics questions

A new £1.4M grant will fund a five-year research project by scientists at Oxford Brookes University.

Genome

09 June 2021

Scientists identify preliminary genetic link to developmental coordination disorder, dyspraxia

New research by scientists at Oxford Brookes University has identified specific genes which could provide vital information about the biology of developmental coordination disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia.

A young child writing

08 April 2021

New method created by scientists will transform how cells are studied

Scientists at Oxford Brookes University have developed a new single-cell transcriptomic method which will aid multiple fields of biology, including the study of human health, disease and injury.

Cell map using ACME single cell transcriptomics method