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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The role of Arid1a and Tet1 in ductal cell-driven liver regeneration
(2020-02-28)Title: The role of Arid1a and Tet1 in ductal cell-driven regeneration Author: Mikel Alexander Mckie The liver has several robust and potent mechanisms of repair after damage despite slow homeostatic turnover. In cases of ... -
Nucleosome-independent permanently condensed chromosome: investigation of novel nuclear organisation in the dinoflagellates
(2019-11-08)Dinoflagellates hold vast diversities and are major contributors to overall marine primary production. Close relatives to the apicomplexan parasites and ciliates, the dinoflagellates, however, have a shockingly different ... -
Role of Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Trophoblast Stem Cell Differentiation
(2019-12-01)The project aimed to provide a mechanistic understanding of the effect of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress on the differentiation of trophoblast stem cells (TSCs), placental development, and subsequent pregnancy outcome. To ... -
Mechanistic analysis of the Zika virus translation-replication switch
(2020-02-22)The genomes of positive-sense RNA viruses are required for both translation and replication during infection. These two processes are antagonistic in nature, each requiring the RNA template in opposite directions. Thus, ...
