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̽»¨Ö±²¥mouse embryo's own stem cells organise themselves into a rosette-like arrangement as a pre-requisite for laying the foundations for the body when the embryo would implant into the uterus.

Rewriting the text books: Cambridge cracks open ‘black box’ of development

13 Feb 2014

We know much about how embryos develop, but one key stage – implantation – has remained a mystery. Now, scientists from Cambridge have discovered a...

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X-ray photo of a chest

Scientists discover genetic disease which causes recurrent respiratory infections

18 Oct 2013

Discovery could lead to new treatments for this genetic disorder.

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Scanning electron micrograph image of sunflower head developing.

Plants and patterning: how shapes are made

11 Mar 2013

A Cambridge Science Festival lecture on Wednesday (13 March 2013) will look at how plants grow through repeating patterns and discuss what we can...

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John Gurdon

Professor Sir John Gurdon awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

08 Oct 2012

̽»¨Ö±²¥Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has today been jointly awarded to Professor Sir John Gurdon, Emeritus Professor in Cell Biology currently...

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Example of fatty overgrowth, affecting specific body regions, caused by mutations in the phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase PI3K (AKT) signalling pahtway.

Cause of rare growth disease discovered

24 Jun 2012

Scientists hopeful discovery will provide a biological target for drug therapy.

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Dr Robin Hesketh with flourescent images of (normal) human cell lines grown in culture.

Everything we think we know – and know we don’t know – about cancer

06 Jun 2012

A book written for the general reader, Betrayed by Nature: ̽»¨Ö±²¥War on Cancer by Dr Robin Hesketh, sets out in plain English what goes wrong in our...

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Root of Arabidopsis thaliana with green fluorescent protein decorating cell membrane and red fluorescent protein marking nuclei.

Lighting up plant cells to engineer biology

05 Apr 2012

Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.

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Image of a cell with AP-5 showing in green, AP-1 and AP-2 in red.

Transporter 5: solving an ancient mystery of the cell

14 Nov 2011

̽»¨Ö±²¥discovery by scientists in Cambridge and Alberta of a fifth adaptor protein – a tiny and vital component of many cells –will lay the foundations...

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Partial view of haploid chromosome set

Scientists create mammalian cells with single chromosome set

13 Sep 2011

Researchers have created mammalian cells containing a single set of chromosomes instead of two.

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cell

Research sheds light on cell mechanism which plays a role in such diseases as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s

26 Jul 2011

New research from scientists at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge provides critical insight into the formation of autophagosomes, which are responsible for...

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Gel electrophoresis

Location, location, location: finding out where proteins live and with whom

01 May 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Centre for Proteomics is internationally recognised for pioneering technology that helps us to understand what proteins do inside cells...

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February is American Heart Month

Scientists find "missing link" between heart failure and environment

13 Jan 2010

Scientists have found what they believe is the missing link between heart failure, our genes and our environment. ̽»¨Ö±²¥study could open up completely...

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