Category: Hot off the press!

Dr Campbell Gourlay, from the Kent Fungal Group in the School of Biosciences, has been successful in attracting a Wellcome Trust medical mycology and fungal immunology strategic award to … Read more

Tyl Taylor (Griffin lab) established that human embryos can be frozen and thawed twice, if necessary, without incurring gross genetic (chromosomal) defects.   Taylor, T.H., … Read more

 Dr. Mark Howard, Reader in Biological NMR Spectroscopy, comments on a recently published article describing a new approach to studying proteins.  “Proteins are one of … Read more

Ethical issues surrounding embryo profiling will come under the spotlight at an international genetics conference at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus, 29 April-2 May. Other … Read more

We are delighted to report that Dr Peter Klappa, Reader in Biochemistry, was a Finalist in the UK Higher Education Biosciences Teacher of the Year … Read more

A little insight into the work done by final year biosciences undergraduates at the University of Kent A guest post by Stella Bennett, a postgraduate … Read more

Dr Mark Shepherd comments on a recent article featuring his group’s work that was selected as cover image in the scientific journal “Antioxidants and Redox Signalling”. “Many bacterial … Read more

Life requires information transfer from nucleic acids to proteins. This involves the physical movement of decoding machines (ribosomes) along linear nucleic acid templates (mRNAs). In … Read more

A collaborative study involving scientists from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the School of Biosciences at the University of Kent has … Read more