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Today Oxford University scientists are joining in a special celebration of the first test of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity on the remote African island where the ground-breaking experiment took place. A new study has shown that, while taking aspirin is beneficial in preventing heart attacks and strokes among people with established cardiovascular disease (secondary prevention), its benefits don’t clearly outweigh the risks in healthy people (primary prevention). Scientists studying why parasites are not more harmful to their hosts have discovered that as the world becomes more connected so natural selection will favour more dangerous parasites. The Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics launched earlier this month as the newest part of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. Isis Innovation, Oxford University’s technology transfer company, has announced increased revenues of The mouse has become only the second mammal after the human to have its entire genome laid bare, and University of Oxford researchers playing a key role. Find out how pheromones influence the sex and social lives of animals and how researchers gained new insight into a rare type of diabetes in the latest Inside Oxford Science podcast. Plans to refill the Professorship of Poetry will be considered in due course, following the decision of Ruth Padel not to take up the post in October 2009.

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