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Image Credit: Irina Gelbukh (CC BY-SA 3.0) In July this year, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that genetically edited organisms qualify as genetic engineering in the EU and the UK and hence fall under the 2001 GMO (genetically modified organisms) Directive. Genetic engineering is where foreign DNA, often from another species, is inserted […]
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Note: the article that follows is a work of satire, and therefore should not be taken as factual Researchers at the University’s Department of Life Sciences have had a breakthrough in political biology, successfully instilling principles into a human being without compromising on its support for the Liberal Democrats. A highly complex mix of […]
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Oxford scientists have helped to launch the first driverless car in the United Kingdom yesterday (11 October) at a trial in Buckinghamshire. ‘Selenium’, which can seat two people, completed a 0.6-mile circuit on the pavements in central Milton Keynes. Developed by the Oxford Robotics Institute, part of the University of Oxford, the car uses LIDAR technology, […]
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