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Fertility pioneer receives international award

09 October, 2018

A University scientist has been honoured for her work in developing human eggs in the laboratory.

Outdoor study lends insight into flower timing

24 September, 2018

Research on plants grown outdoors has revealed new activity of a key gene that controls when…

Lupus discovery could help manage disease in African patients

17 September, 2018

Two variants of an autoimmune disease that affects thousands but is hard to diagnose are relatively…

Sharing parenting leads to healthier young, beetle study finds

01 August, 2018

Animals who share the task of parenting do a better job than parents who do so on their own,…

Professor Jean Beggs receives RNA Society 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award

27 July, 2018

Jean Beggs, Professor of Molecular Biology in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the…

iGEM Overgrad Team – Turning whisky by-products into bioplastics

27 July, 2018

With iGEM season well underway, we again are supporting two teams to ask questions and find…

Young Frankenstein – cautionary tale or valuable lesson

27 July, 2018

A Sci-Screen event provided a light-hearted backdrop for Centre members to engage the audience of…

Sir Adrian Peter Bird and Professor William Hill honoured by the Royal Society

18 July, 2018

Sir Adrian Peter Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, and William Hill, Emeritus Professor of…

Inbred animals face greater threat from changes to environment

27 June, 2018

Animals that are inbred make mistakes in response to changes in their surroundings, which threatens…

One switch to control them all – unravelling seasonality in plants

06 June, 2018

Plants make drastic changes to their biology to survive the changing seasons. Yet we know little…