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Read more at: Translational funding awarded to advance novel cancer immunotherapy

T cells killing a tumour cell & LGR5 expression in colorectal cancer

Translational funding awarded to advance novel cancer immunotherapy

Joint funding from the Cambridge Enterprise Technology Investment Fund and Cancer Research Horizons has been awarded to researchers Marc de la Roche (Department of Biochemistry) and Maike de la Roche (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute).

Read more at: Claudia Bonfio awarded European Research Council Starting Grant

Claudia Bonfio

Claudia Bonfio awarded European Research Council Starting Grant

It is a great pleasure to announce that Claudia Bonfio has been awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant . She comes back to Cambridge from the University of Strasbourg to join the Department of Biochemistry as a research group leader, after previous postdoctoral positions here at the MRC Laboratory of...

Read more at: New technology enables faster response to disease outbreaks like COVID-19

Fig. 1: Workflow for high-throughput functional analysis of antibodies secreted by single cells.

New technology enables faster response to disease outbreaks like COVID-19

An article published in Nature Biotechnology by Katrin Fischer et al. from Florian Hollfelder ’s group in collaboration with the groups of James Thaventhiran , Marko Hyvonen , Nick Matheson and Charlotte Deane establishes a new, generalised technology for finding potentially therapeutic antibodies in response...

Read more at: A tale of two HUSH complexes: defending cells against invading retroelements

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A tale of two HUSH complexes: defending cells against invading retroelements

The HUSH complex preserves genome integrity through epigenetic silencing of invasive retroelements. A new study led by Josh Danac in the Tchasovnikarova lab now describes HUSH2, a related complex that instead represses interferon-stimulated genes. The cell exploits competition between HUSH and HUSH2 to couple...

Read more at: Hosting the next generation of scientists

Biochemistry ASTP Students 2024

Hosting the next generation of scientists

Today we say farewell to our first-ever A-level student group of aspiring scientists. We have really enjoyed hosting them this week to gain experience of lab work and research life in Biochemistry. More information about the ASTP programme is here .