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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Caspase isoforms in inflammasome activation
(2020-04)Inflammasomes are macromolecular signalling platforms composed of a receptor (for example NLRP3 or NLRC4), an adaptor (ASC) and effectors (caspases) that are thought to play critical roles in the host defence against ... -
What is the role of professional helping relationships in altering the trajectories of young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage?
This doctoral thesis is about the possibility that relationships between young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage and professional helpers— employed by not-for-profit organisations— can alter the life trajectories ... -
Mechanisms and dynamics of size regulation and lumen formation in mouse double embryos
Mouse embryogenesis is a paradigmatic example of regulative development, as embryos are able to compensate for alterations in the number of cells and to generate normal-sized pups. It was previously showed that double-sized ...
