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Read more at: Guts at the Science Festival!

Guts at the Science Festival!

25 March 2019

How gut function goes wrong, the impact it has on peoples’ lives and how scientists and clinicians are working to better treat those affected...


Read more at: Nst1b Subject fair.
Nst1b Subject fair.

Nst1b Subject fair.

14 March 2019

Nst1b Subject fair.


Read more at: Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar at Robinson College on Thursday 14th March 2019

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar at Robinson College on Thursday 14th March 2019

18 January 2019

Cambridge Neuroscience is delighted to announce the 31st Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar, 'Signalling, Sensation & Sentience' hosted by the Department of Pharmacology on Thursday 14th March 2019, at Robinson College. Dr Ewan St John Smith is the chair of the Scientific Programme committee...


Read more at: Global Young Scientists Summit - 2019
Global Young Scientists Summit - 2019

Global Young Scientists Summit - 2019

18 January 2019

Karsten Bach is going to Singapore to participate in the GYSS 2019 which is taking place between 20-25 January...


Read more at: A new messenger
A new messenger

A new messenger

9 January 2019

A collaboration between the labs of Colin Taylor and Eugene Brailoiu (Temple University, Philadelphia) has identified a new messenger linking receptors in the plasma membrane to release of calcium from intracellular stores...


Read more at: A new approach to measuring pain

A new approach to measuring pain

30 December 2018

Recent work from the Smith lab, led by Gates Scholar Sampurna Chakrabarti, identified that mice with inflammation in 1 knee spent less time digging than healthy mice...


Read more at: Pain in IBS and a cover image!
Pain in IBS and a cover image!

Pain in IBS and a cover image!

30 December 2018

Dr Jim Hockley from the Smith lab used retrograde tracing in Mrgprd-GFP mice to show that Mrgprd is present in a distinct subset of colonic sensory neurones...


Read more at: Raising money for charity
Raising money for charity

Raising money for charity

30 December 2018

On November 4th 2018, members of the Smith Lab ran the BonfireBurn 10 km run to raise money for Versus Arthritis...


Read more at: Shooting calcium at lysosomes
Shooting calcium at lysosomes

Shooting calcium at lysosomes

12 December 2018

Peace Atakpa, working with Babu Thillaiappan, David Prole and Stefania Mataragka in Colin Taylor’s lab, has shown, using a variety of approaches including a novel genetically encoded Ca2+ sensor, that a specific intracellular channel selectively delivers Ca2+ to lysosomes...


Read more at: Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

Dr. Walid Khaled Awarded Human Cell Atlas Grant from the MRC

9 December 2018

The MRC, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is investing £6.7 million to support the UK’s contribution to mapping every cell type in the human body, through the global Human Cell Atlas initiative..