Babraham Institute
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Undertakes innovative biomedical research to discover the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions, and how, over lifetime, their failure or abnormality may lead to disease
The Babraham Institute is located six miles south-east of the university city of Cambridge, UK. We undertake innovative biomedical research to discover the molecular mechanisms that underlie normal cellular processes and functions, and how, over lifetime, their failure or abnormality may lead to disease. The Institute is a registered charity, sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), to underpin its national responsibilities for healthcare research and training.
Our research is also supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and many medical charities and other organisations.
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NANOGP1 as a Model to Study the Consequences of Gene Duplications on Human Pluripotency and Development
Gene duplication events play an important role in genome evolution; they can also create developmental strategies that differ between species. However, the functional contribution of duplicated genes in early human development ... -
Investigating the role of DPPA2 and DPPA4 in the Epigenetic Control of Lineage Programs in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The precise co-ordination of cell fate specification during human early development is a vital yet poorly understood process. To navigate the dynamic transcriptional and epigenetic changes associated with germ layer ... -
New roles of Rac-GEFs in Neutrophils and in Glucose Homeostasis
Rac-GEFs (guanine-nucleotide exchange factors) are proteins that activate Rac GTPases, thereby enabling Rac-dependent cytoskeletal dynamics and cellular processes such as adhesion and migration. I used mice with genetically ... -
The roles of DPPA2, DPPA4 and SMARCA5 in mouse zygotic genome activation, epigenetic reprogramming and development
The epigenetic remodelling that takes place in order to transform a fertilised oocyte into an embryo and then a whole organism, is one of the most intriguing cellular transformations in biology. The whole process starts ...
