By analysing immune responses across people of different ages after seasonal influenza vaccination, immunologists at the Babraham Institute have shown that a particular type of white blood cell, circulating T follicular helper cells, is linked with good influenza antibody responses in younger people. But that in people over 65, the formation of these cells upon vaccination is reduced compared...
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Professor Adrian Liston, Senior Group Leader at the Babraham Institute, and artist Dr Sonia Agüera-Gonzalez have published a captivating story book to teach children about the immune system and why vaccinations are important.
19-10-2021
Babraham Research Campus Ltd, which develops and manages the Babraham Research Campus, and the Babraham Institute have secured funding for 15 PhD studentships from UKRI-BBSRC as part of a Collaborative Training Partnership (CTP). Through a tailored programme of skills training and scientific and industry supervision, the partnership will produce a cohort of bioscience researchers equipped with...
07-10-2021
Dr Ian McGough is the first of four new group leaders to join the Babraham Institute in positions split across, and in some cases bridging, the Institute's Signalling and Epigenetics research programmes.
07-07-2021
The Babraham Institute welcomes the Babraham Research Campus strategy to develop the Campus into “one of the best places in the world for discovery bioscience research and innovation.”
13-05-2021
Following an open and international search, Professor Wolf Reik has been appointed by the Babraham Institute Board of Trustee Directors as the Institute’s Director. Professor Reik has held the position of Acting Director since May 2020 following the tragic death of Professor Michael Wakelam.
26-03-2021
The Babraham Institute has recently made four new appointments to the Institute’s Board of Trustees.
23-02-2021
Enhanc3D Genomics, a functional genomics spinout company from The Babraham Institute (Cambridge, UK), is pleased to announce that Dr Frank M Armstrong has been appointed as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Company with effect from 4 January 2021.
27-01-2021
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.
03-06-2020
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
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