Articles about 'Department of Biochemistry'

Screening method created to expedite the development of new drugs in the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria and African sleeping sickness.

New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.

Dr Robin Hesketh, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry and author of Betrayed by Nature, explains how advances in inexpensive, rapid gene sequencing and expression analysis is revolutionising cancer research and the development of new treatments.

A book written for the general reader, Betrayed by Nature: The War on Cancer by Dr Robin Hesketh, sets out in plain English what goes wrong in our bodies when cells begin to replicate in an abnormal manner, and what science is doing to address the disease that kills seven million people every year.

Newly discovered family of genes could help us breed grasses with improved properties for food and fuel.

Scientists at Cambridge University are exhibiting a prototype table that demonstrates how biological fuel cells can harness energy from plants.

The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.

Cancer cells can now be viewed as never before, thanks to cutting-edge imaging tools being developed in Cambridge.

One of the latest technologies to emerge - metabolomics - is being used to create a snapshot of how environmental chemicals affect living organisms.