Researchers have identified six new genes that play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes.

An ancient relative of today’s elephants lived in water, a team led by an Oxford University scientist has found.

Professor Dame Kay Davies, Dr Lee’s Professor of Anatomy at Oxford University and Fellow of Hertford College, has been immortalised on canvas after being chosen by an acclaimed artist to form part of her ‘50 Women of Substance’ exhibition.

Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education is launching a new short online course to help non-specialists to use the records of the Victorian census for their own research in local, social and family history.

The world’s shortest light pulse containing just one photon has been produced by Oxford University scientists.

Scientists at Oxford University have found that the free-range environment is not a major source for the infection of chickens with a bug responsible for 340,000 cases of food poisoning in the UK every year.

Research funded by the Wellcome Trust suggests that many children diagnosed with severe language disorders in the 1980s and 1990s would today be diagnosed as having autism. The research supports the theory that the rise in the number of cases of autism may be related to changes in how it is diagnosed.

The job to insulate the roof of the New Bodleian Library has just been completed – using the fleece of over 2,000 sheep. A giant quilt comprised of lengths of 250 mm thick fleece is now lying on top of the roof space, an area of nearly 500 metres square, above the Upper Reading Room of the library.

Personal experiences of people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and their carers can now be heard online on DIPEx, the award-winning patient website based on Oxford University research.

A report on the effect of climate change on tourism says the countries that are likely to be hardest hit have ‘poor’ information about the implications.

Oxford research into heart disease, the UK’s biggest killer, will receive a large cash boost from the British Heart Foundation (BHF), which is establishing a BHF Centre of Research Excellence at Oxford University with £8.4m over six years.

American author JD Ballam has been appointed as the new Director of the Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.