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Eurasian jay

Jays: the birds that can talk like humans

05 Aug 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay...

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Escutcheon on King's College Chapel

Going to the dogs: the 500-year old greyhounds of King’s and in the fight against cancer

15 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, G is for...

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The reproductive machinery of Drosophila melanogaster. Two ovaries (upper right) connected by the oviduct.

How close are you to a fruit fly?

08 Jul 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, F is for...

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DNA representation

Expanding the DNA alphabet: ‘extra’ DNA base found to be stable in mammals

22 Jun 2015

A rare DNA base, previously thought to be a temporary modification, has been shown to be stable in mammalian DNA, suggesting that it plays a key role...

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Lung model

Hope for first treatment targeting cause of debilitating heart and lung disease

17 Jun 2015

A protein that targets the effects of a faulty gene could offer the first treatment targeting the major genetic cause of pulmonary arterial...

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Sheep

Counting on sheep

10 Jun 2015

Sheep are smarter than we might think, with brains surprisingly similar to ours. These similarities are helping researchers to study a devastating...

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The Gift of Pain (cropped and distorted)

‘Pain sensing’ gene discovery could help in development of new methods of pain relief

25 May 2015

A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the...

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Mouse

Fighting cancer: Animal research at Cambridge

24 Apr 2015

A new film from the University of Cambridge looks at how mice are helping the fight against cancer and the facilities in which they are housed, and...

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Baby gorilla

Mountain gorilla genome study provides optimism about population numbers

09 Apr 2015

An international research project to sequence whole genomes from mountain gorillas has given scientists and conservationists new insight into the...

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Transmission electron microscopy image showing a molecular chaperone (the black dots) binding to thread-like amyloid-beta (Aβ42)

Molecular inhibitor breaks cycle that leads to Alzheimer’s

16 Feb 2015

A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer’s disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads...

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Pregnant mother

Mother’s stress hormone levels may affect foetal growth and long term health of child

26 Jan 2015

Increased levels of stress hormones can lead pregnant mice to overeat, but affect growth of the foetus and, potentially, the long term health of the...

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Aedes aegypti mosquito

A very personal perspective on Dengue fever

20 Jan 2015

Leah Katzelnick was all set for a career as an anthropologist until she contracted dengue fever. She was in hospital for a week with severe symptoms...

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