Oxford SciBar

Our evolutionary heritage shared with primates, fish and even bugs is written in our DNA. These 3 billion letters of our 'book of life' were written by evolution over millions, if not billions, of years and are still revealing many surprises.

Join us to hear Dr Peter Scarborough discuss the role of

meat in sustainability and dietary health and find out

whether cutting back on meat could make you and the

planet more healthy.

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Professor Colin Goding discusses what the barriers are to effective anti-cancer treatment and how these can be overcome.

In this talk, Dr. de Grey will explain why therapies that can add 30 healthy years to the remaining lifespan of typical 60-year-olds may well arrive within the next few decades.

Within just a year of discovering X-rays in 1895, doctors were experimenting with their use to treat cancer as well as to make images. Today roughly half of all cancer patients receive radiotherapy.

40 years ago, Peter Higgs and others made breakthroughs which inspired the building of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and lead o the discovery of the Higgs Boson.. Join Frank Close as he explains the personalities, politics and physics behind the discovery.