Sarah Teichamnn has received the Genetics Society’s prestigious Mary Lyon Medal 2018 for “outstanding research” in understanding how the immune system works by using genomics and bioinformatics approaches. More…
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Kim Nasmyth awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
Professor Kim Nasmyth has been awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, which recognises transformative advances towards understanding living systems and extending human life. Kim has made hugely valuable contributions to the life sciences through his elucidation of the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby […]
Ashok Venkitaraman Winner of 2017 Basser Global Prize
The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Centre has announced that Ashok Venkitaraman is the recipient of its fifth annual Basser Global Prize for helping explain how individuals with inherited BRCA2 mutations are predisposed to cancer. More…
Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist
Sydney Brenner, one of the 20th Century’s greatest biologists and joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, talks to biologist and historian Matthew Cobb about his route into science, his 20 year-long collaboration with DNA pioneer Francis Crick and the foundation stones he laid for the new science of molecular biology and […]
Melina Schuh – exploring why older women find it harder to fall pregnant
Dr Melina Schuh’s new laboratory at Bourn Hall Clinic is carrying out ground-breaking research into human eggs. It is seeking to uncover the secrets of why older women find it harder to fall pregnant – and why they are more likely to have children with chromosomal abnormalities. More…
Xiaochen Bai – first atomic structure from UTSW’s Cryo-EM facility
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have published a 3-D atomic structure of the ion channel found in mammals that is implicated in a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease in humans. The work marks the first such structure determined using the university’s $17 million electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) facility that opened last year. Xiaochen Bai, an Assistant Professor […]