Articles about 'School of the Biological Sciences'

Since Darwin’s time, Amazonian butterflies have intrigued biologists as examples of evolution in action.

Cancer Research UK is the world's leading independent charity dedicated to cancer research, spending around £300 million a year on world-class research to beat cancer. In November 2008, the charity launched a five-year plan to focus research on core areas of science that will have the greatest impact on reducing cancer deaths, with an emphasis on cancers that have poor survival rates.

For children obsessed by Top Trumps, a new collection of free playing cards being handed out by Cambridge University’s Museums – starting with the Museums Fair this Saturday - could prove a hit.

How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?

A team studying the psychological well-being of children created by assisted reproduction has been awarded a prize for their work.

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

Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.

Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.

Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.