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Dish Life , the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these ‘super cells’. Loriana Vitillo from CSCI and Karen Jent from the...

This year, SCI PI, Professor Bertie Gottgens , as well as Affiliate PIs, Dr Philip Jones and Dr Douglas Winton were awarded. Academy Fellows are elected for excellence in medical research, for innovative application of scientific knowledge or for their conspicuous service to healthcare. The new Fellows will be formally...

Dr Nicholas Hannan, Research Associate in Vallier Lab was shortlisted to appear in Parliament as part of SET for Britain on Monday, 17 th March. Nick’s poster will present his research on using stem cell therapies for cystic fibrosis and will be judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national...

Three Korean immunologists, Dr Kim, Dr Park and Dr Jang were in the SCI last week, visiting Dr Bon-Kyoung Koo’s lab. They have visited for 3 days to learn about intestinal organoid culture for studying immune-gut interaction. On this occasion and to provide more information on the current status of organoid cultures, it...