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Read more at: Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease

Adult mouse heart 48 hours after activation of Myc together with Ccnt1 expression.

Switching on a key cancer gene could provide first curative treatment for heart disease

The Evan Group and their collaborators have published a new paper in Nature Communications demonstrating that making the Myc gene overactive and functional in the hearts of mice can trigger heart cell regeneration.

Read more at: Collaboratively accelerating model system development in marine microbial ecology

Immunofluorescence microscopy of Amphidinium carterae showing the expression of an artificially introduced gene.

Collaboratively accelerating model system development in marine microbial ecology

The Nisbet, Howe and Waller Groups are part of an international consortium that has published a new paper detailing the genetic transformation of many marine microbial species for the first time.

Read more at: Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

The Hopkins Building, Department of Biochemistry.

Coronavirus: Update from the Head of Department

An update from the Head of Department, Professor Gerard Evan, regarding the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Read more at: Eelco Tromer and colleagues win 2019 Cozzarelli Prize for the Biological Sciences

A human cell in metaphase, with DNA in blue, kinetochores in green and microtubules in red.

Eelco Tromer and colleagues win 2019 Cozzarelli Prize for the Biological Sciences

Congratulations to Eelco Tromer who is part of a research team that has been awarded the 2019 Cozzarelli Prize for the Biological Sciences.

Read more at: Advancing the frontier of aquatic symbiosis research

Ross Waller in the Red Sea, around the Egypt/Sudan border.

Advancing the frontier of aquatic symbiosis research

Ross Waller is one of fifteen international scientists to receive an investigator award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.