Professor Wolf Reik, Associate Director and Head of the Epigenetics research programme at the Babraham Institute has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award for research into how to reprogramme the epigenome. The Award provides £2.6 million in funding for five years. Research funded by the award will commence in October this year and involve the recruitment of three new research...
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The role of the placenta in healthy fetal development is being seriously under-appreciated, according to a new paper published last week.
20-03-2018
A group of genes and genetic switches involved in age-related brain deterioration have been identified by scientists at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge and Sapienza University, Rome.
05-03-2018
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists, including Professor Wolf Reik from the Babraham Institute, has been shortlisted to the final stages of Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge* – an ambitious series of £20m global grants tackling some of the toughest questions in cancer research.
08-02-2018
New research represents a promising step towards better understanding of a key cancer gene.
18-10-2017
Cell cannibalism in tumour samples has been observed for over a century, yet this unusual behaviour is not well studied.
12-07-2017
Moving genes about could help cells to respond to change according to scientists at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, UK and the Weizmann Institute, Israel.
06-07-2017
A team of Cambridge researchers led by scientists at the Babraham Institute have discovered the hidden connections in our genomes that contribute to common diseases.
21-11-2016
Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too.
14-10-2016
A bit like someone looking into a mirror reflected in another mirror, as one new life is developing as an embryo, the capacity to produce the next generation of life is already being established in that embryo.
10-10-2016
The Babraham Institute's Immune Army and team of volunteers land at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 in London next week.
25-06-2015
A BBSRC award to the Babraham Institute will enhance the Institute’s knowledge exchange and commercialisation (KEC) programme to disseminate the results of the Institute’s world-class research and build links with industry.
11-06-2015
A novel format for exchanging computational models in pharmaceutical R&D, PharmML (Pharmacometrics Markup Language), opens new opportunities for collaborations in drug discovery research.
02-06-2015
Researchers at the Babraham Institute and the Francis Crick Institute have developed and used a new technique to join the dots in the genomic puzzle.
06-05-2015
The Babraham Institute has received a Silver Athena SWAN award following a successful first application submitted in November last year.
24-04-2015
The Babraham Institute created a bit of a stir at the Cambridge Science Festival on the weekend 14-15 March. Thanks to the launch of a new 'Molecular Explorers' exhibit, visitors flocked round the exhibit to learn more about the Institute's scientific activities and embark on a journey of molecular discovery.
23-03-2015
Researchers at the BBSRC-supported Babraham Institute have mapped the physical structure of the nuclear landscape in unprecedented detail to understand changes in genomic interactions occurring in cell senescence and ageing.
30-01-2015
A fellowship to host Dr Wim Pierson at the Babraham Institute is one of the Newton International Fellowships announced yesterday. The Newton International Fellowships are awarded jointly by two of the UK’s national research academies – the British Academy and the Royal Society.
23-01-2015
Sixty Year 12 students from Cambridge’s University Technical College have started a bespoke six week project developed by Babraham Institute scientists and based around research at the Institute. The Institute is one of the University Technical College (UTC) Cambridge sponsors.
20-01-2015
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