Articles about 'School of the Biological Sciences'

Professor Nigel Slater, from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, describes how the influx of ideas and principles from non-biological disciplines is shaping a new biology.

Creating circuits from multiple components is routine in engineering. Can living systems be constructed using similar principles?

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has signed its first agreement with the University to optimise the early clinical development of new GSK medicines for obesity and addictive disorders.

Why does one violin sound different to another? Investigating this question has brought together researchers from music, engineering, experimental psychology and computer science.

Dr Martin Vinnell has been appointed to the position of Health and Safety Director at the University of Cambridge, commencing on 1 September 2008.

Professor Jennifer Clack’s research into one of the major events in the evolutionary history of life on Earth has been honoured by the National Academy of Sciences.

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition. Where once the idea would have been dismissed that animals can re-experience the past and plan for the future, her imaginative studies have shown this inherent cleverness in crows.

Imagination, a love of local wildlife, and a camera are all you need to take part in a new photography competition organised by Cambridge University Zoology Museum.

Cranes, bitterns and other birds will be on show in a photographic exhibition from one of Britain's leading wildlife photographers at the University's Zoology Museum.

Most pregnancies develop normally but when complications arise they can have devastating effects. Two recent initiatives in Cambridge hope to deliver a new understanding of events during this critical period of human life.