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GSK signs £50m deal with Oxford University on cancer vaccines
GSK has said it will spend £50m on a project with the University of Oxford to investigate whether vaccines could be used to prevent some cancers.
The FTSE 100 pharmaceutical company said that the GSK-Oxford Cancer Immuno-Prevention Programme will look at how pre-cancerous cells develop.
Scientists are increasingly optimistic about …
The refs didn’t steal a Super Bowl trip from the Bills. The Chiefs’ excellence did
From 1967 through 1975, the Oakland Raiders were the most successful team in professional football … in the regular season. They compiled a record of 95-24-7, and that winning percentage of .798 was a full 70 percentage points higher than the second-best team, the Dallas Cowboys. Those Raiders were packed …
England’s Ashes flops should focus on their game and let others do the talking | Simon Burnton
Monday briefing: What if the climate crisis makes disaster insurance unaffordable?
Good morning. If the Los Angeles wildfires are bracing evidence of the general threat posed by the climate crisis, they have also brought home a specific problem: how can you make the insurance system work when the risks are so high?
That is not a question limited to California, or …
Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say
Pharmacies are demanding tougher regulation of the online sale of weight-loss jabs amid a predicted new year’s boom in demand.
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), who represent independent community pharmacies, urged the regulator to require greater consultation with patients before dispensing weight-loss jabs and other high-risk medication online.
Current rules, …
‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves
To print a book in the days of the Bashar al-Assad regime, one first had to think of the censors. Was the book political in nature? Off to the ministry of information. Religious? To the ministry of religious affairs (
awqaf
). Literature? To the Union of Arab Books. All were …Starwatch: Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn reveal the ecliptic
This week we can observe four of the five naked-eye planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, but not Mercury) with the added bonus of a young moon, too. In doing so, we will be able to discern the ecliptic: the plane of the solar system, which defines the path in …
Bill to reinterpret founding treaty with Maori would make New Zealand a ‘laughing stock’, MPs told
A marathon public hearing into a bill that seeks to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown began on Monday amid widespread outcry the proposed changes are unconstitutional, socially divisive and an attack on Māori rights.
, which …Twenty-five years on from Italy’s big entrance, the Six Nations’ pizazz never fades
It is more than 140 years since England beat Wales in the very first match of the old Home Nations championship, 2-0 at St Helen’s in Swansea in 1883, and there is an old man in the back bar of the Kings Head who will tell you that the English …
‘New way of bearing witness’: one of biggest Holocaust archives goes online
the world’s largest Holocaust archives
is accessible online for the first time after a three-year digitisation of much of the collection. theWiener Holocaust Library
’s new online platform includes more than 150,000 items collected over nine …