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Oronsay

What limpets can tell us about life on Mesolithic Oronsay

19 Aug 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, L is for...

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Image shows C57BL/6 mice, the common strain of laboratory mouse, in a Cambridge animal house. This breed of animal was used in the 'heavy mouse' study.

World's first ‘heavy mouse’ leads to first lab-grown tissue mapped from atomic life

15 May 2014

Molecular ‘fingerprint’ for tissue taken from first isotope-enriched mouse has huge potential for scientific breakthroughs, as well as improved...

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One of the pre-Dynastic Egyptians analysed in the project

Biographies in bone

26 Mar 2014

The diet and journeys taken by those who lived in the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago are being analysed through their teeth and bones.

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