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Lighting up plant cells to engineer biology
Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.
Under the Microscope #8 – Beetle embryo
In this video, Matt Benton shows us nuclei moving inside a beetle egg as a beetle embryo forms.
Under the Microscope #3 – Mouse embryo
In this video, we see a mouse embryo developing. Dr Erica Watson tells us that studying this process helps us better understand human pregnancy.
Under the Microscope #1 & #2 – Small things, big thinking
Using an electron microscope it's possible for the human eye to see in minute detail the foot of the fruit fly - an appendage that is just about the same width as a human hair.
Transporter 5: solving an ancient mystery of the cell
The discovery by scientists in Cambridge and Alberta of a fifth adaptor protein - a tiny and vital component of many cells -will lay the foundations for a greater understanding of genetic disorders.
Mystery of how fleas jump resolved
New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on how fleas jump, reaching speeds as fast as 1.9 meters per second.
Cambridge Ideas – Seven ages of the body
Dr John Robb is an archaeologist and has been studying how people have understood the human body over the last 10,000 years.
Location, location, location: finding out where proteins live and with whom
The Cambridge Centre for Proteomics is internationally recognised for pioneering technology that helps us to understand what proteins do inside cells.