Articles about 'School of the Biological Sciences'

Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).

Researchers have offered a convincing new theory which explains why children believe that they are invisible when they cover their eyes.

The Sainsbury Laboratory has been awarded the Stirling Prize for 2012.

Research provides insight into why flies have the fastest vision in the animal kingdom.

Research indicates the out-of-Africa spread of humans was dictated by the appearance of favourable climatic windows.

Unique blue fruit’s colour does not fade even after a century

New research indicates that a bird’s ability to detect changes in air pressure is the evolutionary remnant of an ancient sense organ found in sharks and sturgeons.

A new resource launched today by the University of Cambridge will help researchers seek out and access high-value equipment across five universities.

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.

Ahead of the first in a series of pub-based science talks, called “SciBar” this evening (16 August), Hayley Frend explains why fundamental knowledge about the mammary gland is still needed and how research in the field will impact on the treatment of breast cancer in the future.