Seeding growth: plant sciences
01 May 2010The study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.
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The study of plants is blossoming in Cambridge, with new facilities, new research and soon a major new institute.
A gift from Google will help Computing for the Future of the Planet.
The Cambridge Centre for Proteomics is internationally recognised for pioneering technology that helps us to understand what proteins do inside cells.
Research in the Department of Architecture aims to reveal the creative potential of light in the design of contemporary libraries.
The most common cause of artificial joint failure is loosening of the prosthetic implant. Dr Athina Markaki is designing materials to anchor them securely.
A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.
A digital archive of 500-year-old 'filofaxes' offers extraordinary insight into early thought and writing practices.
Cambridge scientists are employing fragment-based drug discovery approaches - a technique that involves "growing" potent drugs from tiny chemical fragments - to tackle tuberculosis and...
The amazing diversity of flowers is a biological mystery that has long intrigued scientists. Dr Beverley Glover explains how new understanding of petals and pollinators...
A new analysis of the Munich Games of 1972 places the event at the very centre of modern German history, as Dr Chris Young explains.