Articles about 'School of the Biological Sciences'

The expertise of Cambridge's new Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Sharon Peacock, is helping to drive a programme of research that will track and block routes of transmission for superbugs.

Using field experiments in Africa and a new computer model that gives them a bird's eye view of the world, Cambridge scientists have discovered how a bird decides whether or not a cuckoo has laid an egg in its nest.

Researchers in Cambridge and Japan will be working together towards a more integrated understanding of how stem cells make decisions.

Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, has found.

A new multidisciplinary research programme aims to develop a single vaccine that will combat four major respiratory pathogens of pigs.

Ever wondered what happens in a museum once the lights go out?

How two butterfly species have evolved exactly the same striking wing colour and pattern has intrigued biologists since Darwin's day. Now, scientists at Cambridge have found "hotspots" in the butterflies' genes that they believe will explain one of the most extraordinary examples of mimicry in the natural world.

The commonly held assumption that as primates evolved, their brains always tended to get bigger has been challenged by a team of scientists at Cambridge and Durham.

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

Cambridge scientists are asking what role stem cells play in how cancer develops, spreads and relapses.