Using plants to harvest the Sun’s energy
01 September 2007How can we efficiently unlock the bioenergy stored within plants? Research carried out in the Department of Biochemistry is breaking down the cellular barriers.
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How can we efficiently unlock the bioenergy stored within plants? Research carried out in the Department of Biochemistry is breaking down the cellular barriers.
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Mark de Rond spent 200 days with the Cambridge University Boat Club as an organisational ethnographer researching the social dynamics of high performance teams.
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Following recent funding from the Leverhulme Trust, a new programme of academic exchange kicks off in October in the Centre of African Studies, as the...