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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Preclinical Models to Identify Molecular Drivers of Metastasis in Paediatric Musculoskeletal Cancer
(2020-11-28)Paediatric primary musculoskeletal (MS) cancers such as Ewing’s sarcoma and osteosarcoma account for 5% of childhood malignancies in the UK. Despite advances in surgical intervention and chemotherapy, the survival of ... -
Vaccinia virus BTB-Kelch proteins
Vaccinia virus (VACV) is a valuable tool to study host-virus interactions and encodes a plethora of immunomodulatory proteins, among which three, A55, C2 and F3, have a BTB/BACK-Kelch (BBK) structure and are the focus of ... -
Assessing the potential contribution of roads to variation in British bird populations
Roads and their traffic are known to affect bird species at both individual and population levels. Collisions with vehicles can cause direct mortality, and noise, light and chemical pollution can have sub-lethal impacts. ... -
Investigating processing body condensation, material properties and function during early Drosophila development
(2020-10-19)How cells control spatiotemporal protein synthesis is a biological phenomenon with broad implications in physiology, pathology, and therapeutics. Cellular material can be organised into membrane-bound or membrane-less ...
