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3D reconstruction of a mouse proximal tubule cell with OCRL deficiency (left) and alpelisib treatment (right)

First pilot therapeutic trial in Dent disease caused by OCRL1 gene mutations

The Lowe Syndrome Trust UK, Dent Disease Foundation USA and The Lowe Syndrome Association USA have each awarded grants of €20,000 towards a pilot clinical study led Professor Francesco Emma, Head of the Nephrology unit at the Bambino Gesù Children’s hospital in Rome, Italy. The first patients were enrolled into this...

Patil Group discovers how gut microbes could protect us from toxic 'forever chemicals'

Our Professor of Molecular Systems Biology, Kiran Patil, and his colleagues in the MRC Toxicology unit and at EMBL, Imperial College, King's College, London and Tübingen, have published an article in Nature Microbiology. The paper examines how certain species of microbe found in the human gut can absorb PFAS -...

Human milk cells grown in culture. Image: Alecia-Jane Twigger

Women's health feature includes the Twigger Group's work

A University feature article to highlight a new research network in the School of Biological Sciences focused on Women’s Health includes the Twigger Group 's work on breastfeeding through the Cambridge Lactation Lab and CAMB MOM study . Read the ‘Putting women’s health in the spotlight’ feature .

Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2025

Dupree Group exhibits at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

The Dupree Group has been selected to be part of one of the thirteen flagship, main exhibits at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition this week.

Their exhibit is HAPPYMAT: Materials Inspired by Nature and comes out of the Dupree Group's EPSRC...

Normal and genetically engineered pancreatic cancer cells

Article on the Microscopy Bioscience Platform features Machesky Group

The University has published a new article on the Cambridge Microscopy Bioscience Platform , featuring research from groups using the platform across the School of Biological Sciences and including the Machesky Group's work on better treatments for pancreatic cancer and images by Roberta Palmulli and Lisa Dobson (...

First pilot therapeutic trial in Dent disease caused by OCRL1 gene mutations

Patil Group discovers how gut microbes could protect us from toxic 'forever chemicals'

Women's health feature includes the Twigger Group's work

Dupree Group exhibits at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Article on the Microscopy Bioscience Platform features Machesky Group

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