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Fractal patterns spontaneously emerge during bacterial cell growth

11 Jun 2013

Scientists discover highly asymmetric and branched patterns are the result of physical forces and local instabilities; research has important...

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Bacterial banter: a target for therapeutics

27 Feb 2013

Targeting the ‘conversations’ that bacteria have with one another could herald a new generation of therapeutics that curb the virulence of infectious...

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The ‘suicide complex’ ToxIN.

Lethal weapon: bacteria’s high-risk suicide strategy

24 Dec 2012

New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.

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Fading hope

Viruses evolve mechanism to prevent bacteria from committing suicide

09 Nov 2012

Viruses are capable of outmanoeuvring the ability of bacteria to commit 'suicide', new research shows.

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Xenopus laevis oocytes

Cambridge success in Wellcome Image Awards

29 Jun 2012

University of Cambridge researchers created four out of the 16 winning images in the recent Wellcome Image Awards 2012.

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Breast cancer

Scientists discover how antibiotic molecule found in bacteria stops breast cancer

23 Aug 2011

Scientists have discovered how a molecule that was first discovered in bacteria blocks a protein which causes breast cancer to develop and spread...

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Venki Ramakrishnan

Trinity College Fellow wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

07 Oct 2009

A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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