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The results of a collaborative research study led by Professors Edmund Kunji and Vera Moiseenkova-Bell , involving scientists from the Universities of Cambridge, Pennsylvania, East Anglia and Brussels, have been published in Science Advances . Uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1) is the protein that allows specialised brown fat...

On 18 March, the MBU joined other scientific organisations based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for our first CBC in-person Cambridge Festival event since lockdown. Alongside Penny Peck and Alex Whitworth , Alva Casey ( Murphy Group ), Dnyanesh Dubal ( van den Ameele Group ), Alannah King ( Kunji Group ), Nell Nie (...

Every cell in the body contains a small organelle, called mitochondrion, that houses thousands of biochemical reactions essential for life. These reactions provide energy for cells through the breakdown of sugar and fat, also generating the building blocks to make protein and DNA. Each cell has hundreds of individual...

The most common subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neurone disease, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is caused by a hexanucleotide expansion in C9orf72 . This leads the aberrant production of dipeptide-repeat proteins that cause toxicity and neuronal cell death. Researchers from the...