The BBSRC publishes 'Our Impact' case studies to highlight how the research it funds has an impact on science, the economy and social issues. Prof Andrew Martin’s abYsis software was chosen as a BBSRC Impact case for 11 September 2018.
BBSRC Impact case study, Phamaceuticals industry benefits from antibody sequence software, 11 September 2018
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November 2018
The ISMB’s Dr Tine Arnvig has been awarded an MRC grant to investigate 'Conditional termination of transcription in Mycobacterium tuberculosis’. The aim of the project is to 1. define transcriptional terminator motifs on a global scale in the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and 2. to investigate post-transcriptional control of gene expression associated with inherent
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October 2018
A collaboration between the ISMB's Prof Peter Coveney and Prof Andrea Townsend-Nicholson with Prof Blanca Rodriguez at University of Oxford, Prof Marco Viceconti at University of Sheffield and Prof Alfons Hoekstra at University of Amsterdam, 'The Virtual Human' is a film describing the recreation of a human being in silico, including IMAX video composited
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October 2018
Prof Francesco Gervasio’s group has contributed to the discovery and clarification of an unexpected, yet fundamental, role of the enzyme glutamine synthetase.
Glutamine synthetase (GS) is an enzyme that converts glutamate and ammonia to glutamine. GS is expressed in endothelial cells, fundamentally regulating vascular development. However, a group of scientists led by Prof Peter Carmeliet
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June 2018
Cell competition is a quality-control mechanism through which tissues eliminate unfit cells. Cell competition can result from short-range biochemical inductions or long-range mechanical cues. However, little is known about how cell-scale interactions give rise to population shifts in tissues, due to the lack of experimental and computational tools to efficiently characterize interactions at the
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June 2018
New research from scientists at Birkbeck and UCL points the way to a new approach in preventing progression of Huntington’s disease (HD), by manipulating the mutated protein associated with the disease.
HD is an inherited neurodegenerative disease, thought to affect about 7000 people in the UK. There is currently no treatment or cure for the
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July 2018
Congratulations to Professor Andres Ramos on being awarded an MRC Programme grant for the project: 'Molecular mechanisms regulating mRNA transport and local translation in neurons'.
The research will investigate the crucial role played by RNA binding proteins in the regulation of the transport and translation of mRNAs in dendritic and axonal locations. The regulation of
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