Play computer games for science and judge how well others compete or explore Mind Boggling Medical History to see where truth may be stranger than fiction.
Decipher the science behind the hype surrounding fats and sugar, then meet an epidemiologist and find out what confuses them.
Look through the eyes of a modern paramedic and learn some life-saving techniques. See a machine that helps organs heal outside the body.
Activities provided by University of Oxford: St Anne’s College; Radcliffe Department of Medicine; MRC WIMM; National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit; Nuffield Department of Surgical Science; Oxford Nottingham Biomedical Imaging; Respiratory Medicine Unit; Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit; Structural Genomics Consortium; Department of Computer Science. Oxford Brookes University: Department of Psychology; Paramedic Science NHS Blood and Transplant
Learn from lung experts about breathing and delve into a box of snot before taking your own (vegetable) biopsy, or use imaging science to peer beneath your skin.
Get to know your blood type and help make pints of the red stuff from slimy beads or become part of the immune system and attack an invader. Discover how medicines and vaccines work and how new life-saving drugs are developed.
Find out about an exciting initiative to equip Africa’s science labs and learn how everyday household items can be used to build low cost and very useful equipment and gadget/
This event is part of the IF Oxford Science and Ideas Festival.
