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Nuclear pore transport puzzle solved by super-resolution microscopy

04 May, 2020

A study has solved a long-standing debate about the transport of essential proteins, implicated in…

Adrian Bird shares world’s largest prize for pioneering brain research

29 April, 2020

Sir Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics based at the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and…

Professor Keith Matthews elected Fellow of the Royal Society

28 April, 2020

Keith Matthews, Professor of Parasite Biology, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in…

Sandy Hetherington awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

22 April, 2020

Sandy Hetherington, an evolutionary biologist, is the recipient of a UK government fellowship that…

Professors Francisca Mutapi and Alexandra Rowe become Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows

15 April, 2020

Professors Francisca Mutapi and Alexandra Rowe have been named as Royal Society of Edinburgh…

Blue tit diet study reveals all they can eat is quite a feast

14 April, 2020

They are famed for feasting on bird tables and coaxing cream from milk bottles ... now research…

PhD students rise to the challenge of Covid-19

14 April, 2020

School of Biological Sciences Students from the Wellcome Trust PhD programme in Hosts, Pathogens…

David Tollervey and Sara Macias to participate in EMBL Twinning Project

06 April, 2020

David Tollervey, from the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology and Sara Macias from the Institute of…

Experts play key role in bid to curb Covid-19

03 April, 2020

Researchers from across the University are rallying to support global efforts to combat the…

University fast-tracks innovation to battle Covid-19

03 April, 2020

Edinburgh researchers are joining forces with commercial companies to quickly develop new…