IOI awards £5m to Oxford consortium to develop new therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis

Published on February 20, 2025

The Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) has awarded £5 million to a group of 17 interdisciplinary researchers from Oxford University to develop new therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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UK peatland fires are supercharging carbon emissions as climate change causes hotter, drier summers

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More fires, taking hold over more months of the year, are causing more carbon to be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.Fires on peatlands, which are carbon-rich, can almost double global fire-driven carbon emissions. Researchers found that despite accounting for only a quarter of the total UK land area that burns each year, dwarfed by moor and heathland, wildfires that burn peat have c