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UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) scientists in Cambridge are studying all the different ways that medical science can help protect our health and improve our lives. This activity book is for people of all ages to explore the variety of MRC-funded work that takes place in Cambridge. Our work involves examining everything...

The MBU and the Keith Peters Building reopened for research today (Monday, 15 June), with those researchers present following strict University-approved protocols to protect both them and the wider community during the COVID-19 crisis. While everyone will continue to work from home whenever possible, we are delighted at...

We are excited to share the news that Professors Mike Murphy (MBU, Cambridge) and Richard Hartley (Glasgow) have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Joint Investigator Award of £1.6 milion for a research project entitled, ‘Exploring mitochondrial metabolism in health and disease using targeted biological chemistry’. The project...

In a collaborative research study with the NIHR BioResource and Genomics England published in Nature Communications , Wei Wei and Patrick Chinnery explain how large rare or unique nuclear-mitochondrial DNA segments (mega-NUMTs) can resemble paternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and find no evidence of paternal...