Industrial poultry farming is accelerating the spread of a major foodborne disease

03-Aug-2026 - A new study by the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research, University of Oxford, reveals that industrial poultry farming has led to more than 100-fold increase in the movement of Campylobacter, allowing strains that once circulated in wild birds to mix extensively in commercial poultry ...

First image of antigen-bound T-cell receptor at atomic resolution

Basis for novel therapeutic approaches targeting severe diseases

22-Aug-2022 - T cells are our immune system’s customised tools for fighting infectious diseases and tumour cells. On their surface, these special white blood cells carry a receptor that recognises antigens. With the help of cryo-electron microscopy, biochemists and structural biologists from Goethe University ...

Tracking the HI virus

Researchers makes visible, how AIDS pathogens multiply in the body

07-Oct-2019 - An international team of researchers led by Dr Cyril Favard and Dr Delphine Muriaux from the Montpellier Infectious Disease Research Institute in collaboration with Prof. Dr Christian Eggeling from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz ...

Genetic marker for resistance to malaria treatment identified

09-Nov-2016 - Global efforts to try and treat and eradicate malaria are being hampered by increasing resistance of the disease-causing Plasmodium parasite to anti-malarial drugs. A new study led by the University of Oxford has identified genetic markers linked to resistance to the anti-malarial drug ...

Genetic study shows how malaria mutations beat treatments

29-Jun-2016 - Scientists have discovered that the malaria parasitePlasmodium vivaxis evolving rapidly to adapt to conditions in different geographical locations, in particular to defend itself against widely-used antimalarial drugs. The study provides a foundation for using genomic surveillance to guide ...

'Virtual virus' unfolds the flu on a CPU

Researchers at the University of Oxford simulate the complete outer envelope of a flu particle for the first time

10-Feb-2015 - By combining experimental data from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, cryoelectron microscopy and lipidomics (the study of cellular lipid networks), researchers at the University of Oxford have built a complete model of the outer envelope of an influenza A virion for the first time. The ...

New virus isolated from patients with severe brain infections

19-Jun-2013 - Researchers have identified a new virus in patients with severe brain infections in Vietnam. Further research is needed to determine whether the virus is responsible for the symptoms of disease. The virus was found in a total of 28 out of 644 patients with severe brain infections in the study, ...

Data from historic phase IIb clinical trial for tuberculosis vaccine candidate MVA85A

05-Feb-2013 - Data from a Phase IIb clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of MVA85A in preventing tuberculosis (TB) in infants. MVA85A is a TB vaccine candidate designed to boost immune responses already primed by the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, the currently licensed and widely used TB ...