School of the Biological Sciences
About this community
The School of the Biological Sciences encompasses the Faculty Board of Biology and the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine and is represented on the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine. It has responsibilities across three Triposes (the Natural Sciences Tripos, Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos).
Find out more about the School of the Biological Sciences at http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/.
Sub-communities within this community
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Centre for Family Research
Has a worldwide reputation for innovative research that increases understanding of children, parents and family relationships -
Centre for Trophoblast Research
Promotes scientific study of the placenta, the organ that interfaces between the mother and her baby during pregnancy -
Department of Biochemistry
An internationally competitive research programme; themes include cell signalling and control of gene expression, to molecular microbiology, plant molecular biology and biofuel research, cancer and cardiovascular biology
Recent Submissions
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Brain substrates of behavioural endophenotypes predictive of compulsive drug-seeking
Addiction, also known as severe substance use disorder, is characterised by compulsive drug-seeking and intake in the face of mounting adverse and negative consequences. Despite the prevalence of illicit drug use within ... -
Curation, characterisation and prediction of Drosophila signalling pathway members
Signalling pathways are key to virtually every aspect of the biology of multicellular organisms. Extensive research in Drosophila melanogaster has greatly contributed to the understanding of these pathways, but a central ... -
Investigating the molecular pharmacology of class A and B G protein-coupled receptors
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) possess an inherent ability to bind to an extremely diverse range of ligands and activate multiple downstream signalling pathways. It is becomingly increasingly evident, however, that ... -
Investigating the role of the circadian clock in the physiology of wheat
The circadian clock is an endogenous timing mechanism which acts to synchronise internal processes with daily and seasonal cycles in light and temperature. In Arabidopsis, the components which comprise the circadian ...