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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A new tetrapod from Romer's Gap reveals an early adaptation for walking
A new early tetrapod, $\textit{Mesanerpeton woodi}$ gen. et sp. nov., collected by Stanley Wood from the Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian CM palynozone, at Willie’s Hole, Scottish Borders, is described. It includes vertebrae ... -
What made Stan Wood a great collector?
Stan Wood was an exceptional fossil collector who, over a collecting career of more than 40 years, provided British palaeontology with an abundance and variety of new Carboniferous fossils the like of which had not been ... -
TAPBPR bridges UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase 1 onto MHC class I to provide quality control in the antigen presentation pathway
(eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2017-04-20)Recently, we revealed that TAPBPR is a peptide exchange catalyst that is important for optimal peptide selection by MHC class I molecules. Here, we asked whether any other co-factors associate with TAPBPR, which would ... -
Lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-κB nuclear translocation is primarily dependent on MyD88, but TNF$\alpha$ expression requires TRIF and MyD88
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-05-03)TLR4 signalling through the MyD88 and TRIF-dependent pathways initiates translocation of the transcription factor NF-κB into the nucleus. In cell population studies using mathematical modeling and functional analyses, Cheng ...
