A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the...
New research reveals what happens when swimming cells such as spermatozoa and algae hit a solid wall, and has implications for applications in...
Nanowires growing in real time. Each nanowire is roughly 450 atoms wide.
Matthew Kuo tells us how tiny worm faecal pellets affect how oil pipelines sit on the seabed.
The epidermis, which is the outer layer of mammalian skin, is maintained by numerous stem cell populations.
Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an embryonic skate head and explains how the red denticles dotted all over it have very similar properties to human teeth...
In this video, Matt Benton shows us nuclei moving inside a beetle egg as a beetle embryo forms.
In this video Dr Ingrid Graz shows us a thin layer of gold on top of rubber. Cracks in the gold allow it to stretch and we can use this for...
New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on how fleas jump, reaching speeds as fast as 1.9 meters per second.
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Professor Jane Clarke’s laboratory was one of the first in the world to combine atomic force microscopy with protein engineering to ‘visualise’ the...
Close scrutiny of the ancient remains of our ancestors’ meals gives us some sense of the development and rationale behind our strange food-sharing...
