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Root of Arabidopsis thaliana with green fluorescent protein decorating cell membrane and red fluorescent protein marking nuclei.

Lighting up plant cells to engineer biology

05 Apr 2012

Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.

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brain cells from skin cells

Under the Microscope #12 - Brain cells from skin cells

28 Feb 2012

This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells.

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Image of a cell with AP-5 showing in green, AP-1 and AP-2 in red.

Transporter 5: solving an ancient mystery of the cell

14 Nov 2011

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...

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Partial view of haploid chromosome set

Scientists create mammalian cells with single chromosome set

13 Sep 2011

Researchers have created mammalian cells containing a single set of chromosomes instead of two.

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cell

Research sheds light on cell mechanism which plays a role in such diseases as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s

26 Jul 2011

New research from scientists at the University of Cambridge provides critical insight into the formation of autophagosomes, which are responsible for...

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Young red blood cells (left) and old blood cells (right)

Test highlights benefits of new blood

20 May 2011

Old red blood cells shown to have undergone ‘significant changes and damage’; techniques could help rapidly monitoring quality of blood supply.

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alveolicells

New cell death mechanism has implications for breast cancer treatments

25 Feb 2011

A novel mechanism of cell death that occurs in mammalian organisms has been revealed by researchers at the University of Cambridge.

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Gel electrophoresis

Location, location, location: finding out where proteins live and with whom

01 May 2010

The Cambridge Centre for Proteomics is internationally recognised for pioneering technology that helps us to understand what proteins do inside cells...

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February is American Heart Month

Scientists find "missing link" between heart failure and environment

13 Jan 2010

Scientists have found what they believe is the missing link between heart failure, our genes and our environment. The study could open up completely...

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Metastatic Breast Cancer in Pleural Fluid

Scientists pinpoint breast cancer ‘guard’ gene

06 Oct 2009

Scientists are close to discovering how normal breast cells become cancerous, according to research published today.

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Elizabeth Blackburn

Cambridge graduate wins Nobel Prize in medicine

05 Oct 2009

Elizabeth Blackburn, an alumna of Darwin College and a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University earlier this year, has been...

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A Wright's stained bone marrow aspirate smear of patient with precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

New route to Leukaemia uncovered

28 Sep 2009

Scientists have discovered a completely new route by which leukaemia develops, according to research published in Nature this weekend.

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