Professor Wolf Reik has been appointed Acting Director of the Babraham Institute with immediate effect, following the sad loss of Professor Michael Wakelam at the end of March.
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Immunology expertise has combined with beautifully evocative illustrations to create an engaging book for children and their parents. A new children’s book ‘Battle Robots of the Blood’ has been launched, available as an e-book for free during the coronavirus lockdown.
06-04-2020
The Babraham Institute is devastated to announce the news of the death of Professor Michael Wakelam, the Institute’s Director.
02-04-2020
Dr Maria Christophorou joins the Institute as a group leader in the Epigenetics research programme.
16-01-2020
Pioneering research by Professor Adrian Liston, a senior group leader at the Babraham Institute, will be developed towards being market-ready for the treatment of brain injury by funding provided by an ERC (European Research Council) Proof of Concept grant.
13-01-2020
Dr Michelle Linterman, a group leader in the Babraham Institute’s Immunology research programme, has received a prestigious Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship.
27-06-2019
Researchers design a machine learning algorithm with ~90% accuracy in identifying children with arthritis using blood samples alone, creating a potential diagnostic tool to improve diagnosis and treatment.
14-03-2019
Single cell analysis reveals details of heterogeneity in stem cell populations and how naive cells become primed for differentiation. Research also identified a new intermediate cell population showing characteristics of naïve and primed human embryonic stem cells which might be present in the early human embryo.
15-02-2019
Immunology researchers at the Babraham Institute have uncovered how lung tissue is remodelled to support an immune response to influenza. If the research findings can be applied to the development of the seasonal influenza vaccination, the result would be more robust protection against multiple influenza strains. Findings are also relevant to understanding a variety of autoimmune diseases and...
13-02-2019
We can think of the egg and sperm as information capsules with stored instructions for starting a new life, but post fertilisation, what kick starts the interpretation of these instructions?
12-02-2019
The Institute is delighted to have joined both the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Science and Health (EDIS) coalition and the Stonewall Diversity Champions programme for embedding LGBT inclusion.
11-02-2019
Community-developed blueprint of worm metabolism holds promise for greater understanding of ageing.
06-02-2019
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...
12-07-2018
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
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