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A UCL-led team has developed an AI tool to understand antibody assembly in the human body, speeding therapeutic antibody design and revealing new insights into B-cell maturation and immune responses. Researchers have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool, ImmunoMatch, that can predict which antibody components naturally pair together. This advance can significantly accelerate antibody-based drug
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Prof Finn Werner has received an eight-year Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (2025-2033) to support a research program entitled A Holistic View of Gene Expression in Archaea (Figure A). This work will investigate the molecular mechanisms and structural foundations that link RNA polymerase with the pioneering ribosome (B). His laboratory’s genome-scale analyses, which relate dynamic RNA
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Date: November 24th, 2025 Time: 1300-1400 hrs Location: AZ Young LT, Anatomy building  Title: ‘The Mechanism and Origin of RNA-Guided Genome Editing in the Ciliate Oxytricha’ Abstract. Oxytricha is a single-celled eukaryote with multiple nuclei and two distinct nuclear genomes.  In a feat of natural genome engineering, massive DNA rearrangements rebuild a product somatic genome from a much larger, precursor germline genome,
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October 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM organised by Alice Pettitt (former ISMB PhD student).Venue:  Fora – The Jellicoe Building, 5 Beaconsfield Street, London N1C 4EW To sign up and see the session information, click here. ARIA funds breakthrough R&D in underexplored areas to catalyse new paths to prosperity for the UK and the world. They empower
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Friday 3rd October, 2pm Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT. Prof Jinbiao Ma https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nFrDcpsAAAAJ&hl=en, from the University of Fudan (Shangai) is vising London this week, and will present his work on “Recognition and mechanisms of Y RNAs and Z RNAs” on Friday Oct 3rd, 2 pm, Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT. This is exciting, novel work
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Ref Number  B02-09367 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location  London Working Pattern  Full time Salary  See advert text Contract Type  Fixed-term Working Type  On site Available for Secondment  No Closing Date  13-Oct-2025 APPLY NOW  About us The Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (SMB) is a world
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10 September 2025 UK bioscience is set to benefit from cutting-edge research tools accelerating advances in health, climate-smart farming, sustainable food and drug discovery. Thirty-one new technology awards will equip scientists with the infrastructure they need to answer some of the most pressing challenges in biology and beyond. These include imaging tools that reveal how cells behave in
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Biosciences Seminar Speaker: Maciek Wiatrak, Cambridge University Place: 305, Bedford Way (26) Date: 02/10/2025 Time: 11.00-12.00 Bacteria have evolved a vast diversity of functions and behaviours which are currently incompletely understood and poorly predicted from DNA sequence alone. To understand the syntax of bacterial evolution and discover genome-to-phenotype relationships, we curated over 1.3 million genomes spanning bacterial phylogenetic space, representing each as an
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