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11 Apr 2018

New tool in the fight against tropical diseases

The Oliver Group and Dr Mark Carrington have published a new paper in Open Biology.Steve Oliver's group, working with Mark Carrington and colleagues elsewhere, have developed a novel tool that exploits baker's yeast to expedite the development of new drugs to fight multiple tropical diseases, including malaria, schistosomiasis, and African sleeping…

11 Apr 2018

Tom Blundell reappointed as Chair of BBSRC

Tom Blundell has been reappointed as Chair of BBSRC.The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has announced the reappointment of Professor Sir Tom Blundell as Chair of BBSRC. For more details see the press release.

11 Apr 2018

African trypanosome receptor structure revealed

The Carrington Group have published a new paper in PNAS.African trypanosomes infect humans and animals, causing disease and severely affecting the agriculture of rural sub-Saharan Africa. The trypanosomes are protected by a densely packed surface monolayer of variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The haptoglobin hemoglobin receptor (HpHbR) within thi…

11 Apr 2018

Tom Blundell speaks about drug design on Darwin Day

Professor Sir Tom Blundell gives a lecture to celebrate Darwin Day.On February 12th Sir Tom Blundell spoke about drug design and the evolution of drug resistance at a lecture to celebrate Darwin Day, and was featured on Radio 4. You can read and hear more on the BBC website and also find a full podcast of the lecture.

11 Apr 2018

Potential new target in fight against superbug

The Welch Group have published a new paper in Open Biology.Martin Welch and his group have discovered how an antibiotic-resistant superbug exploits oxygen-limited conditions in the lungs of patients with severe respiratory disease to thrive. It is hoped the discovery could lead to new ways to target the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium, which is re…

10 Apr 2018

Detecting quadruplex DNA

The McCafferty Group have published a new paper in Nature Chemistry.The recent success in Shankar Balasubramanian's group, based in the Department of Chemistry and the CRUK Cambridge Research Institute, in showing that four-stranded 'quadruple helix' DNA structures exist within human cells, has relied on production of anti-quadruplex DNA antibodies…

10 Apr 2018

Departmental Research Day 2013

The first snowy day of the winter on January 14th did not deter several hundred Biochemists, who descended on Churchill College for the annual Departmental Research Day.A full day's programme of talks by academic staff was complemented by a display of posters, covering a wide range of the research ongoing within groups in the Department. Everyone w…