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Marjory Stephenson outside the Department with Judith

Royal Society film celebrates the life and work of Marjory Stephenson

Watch a film made to mark the 80th anniversary of our former faculty member Marjory Stephenson becoming one of the first two female fellows of the Royal Society with Kathleen Lonsdale. It was partly shot in the Department and at Newnham College and features many pictures from the Department Photograph Albums and...

Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide

In a paper published in Current Biology , Alberto Scarampi and his colleagues in Chris Howe's group show that cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide thanks to a pool of potentially beneficial mutations already existing at low frequencies in the bacterial...

Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Moyle Needham

Pioneering Cambridge Women Biochemists

To mark Women’s History Month, Stella Butler has written a short piece on our former faculty members, Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Moyle Needham and the difficulties they faced establishing scientific careers in the 1920s and 30s.

Stella is Librarian Emeritus at the University of...

Miska Group awarded CRUK Discovery Programme grant

Congratulations to the Miska Group on their Cancer Research UK Discovery Programme Award. They will use the award to investigate the role of METTL1 in cancer protein production, oncogenic RNA structure-function modifications and screening RNA structures to identify novel therapeutic targets.

Their...

'Hive Heroes', Maori Group Film

The Maori Group have produced a film with their artist in residence, Lily Hunter Green, about their innovative project ‘Hive Heroes’, which combines Art, Science, and Play to reveal the healing secrets of honeybee hives. Learn more about the project here .

There will be a pop-up demonstration 11:30am-4:30pm on...

Royal Society film celebrates the life and work of Marjory Stephenson

Howe Group show cyanobacteria can rapidly develop resistance to a herbicide

Pioneering Cambridge Women Biochemists

Miska Group awarded CRUK Discovery Programme grant

'Hive Heroes', Maori Group Film

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