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Last year the closure of schools and restricted access to research labs across the UK put a stop to many of the research placements that would normally take place in the summer. These placements play an important role in providing students with experience of what a career in research is like, before deciding what to do...

For many years Alfonso Martinez-Arias has been at the heart of the Developmental Biology community in Cambridge, first in Zoology and for the past 20 years in Genetics. Throughout his time here he has pushed the boundaries of fundamental biology, driven by the question of how cells make choices. First with the fly then...

Cambridge University Press have announced the winners of the 2020 Technology-Enabled Learning Prize. The prize for Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths & Medicine (STEMM), goes to Dr Matt Castle and his team, for the PSLS Biostatistics Initiative Core Statistics Course. The GSLS Biostatistics course supports life...

Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias and Dr Naomi Moris have received an award from the Medical Research (MRC) and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) in collaboration with Dr Cantas Alev to use their human gastruloid system to study somitogenesis associated birth defects. The below image provides an...