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The School of Life Sciences (SLS) have recently welcomed the first two recipients of scholarships for Black British students on our Masters by Research (MbR) course.
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The School of Life Sciences (SLS) have recently welcomed the first two recipients of scholarships for Black British students on our Masters by Research (MbR) course.
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The University of Dundee’s Drug Discovery Unit has announced a renewed partnership with Takeda, and the University of Cambridge to continue their work to discover new therapeutic treatments for dementia
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Professor Paul Birch and collaborators at the James Hutton Institute have been awarded ~£679k to study how the potato blight pathogen suppresses the potato immune system.
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A collaboration between the research laboratories of Dr Mattie Pawlowic and Dr Susan Wyllie in the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research at School of Life Sciences has generated a new tool that can be used for studying Cryptosporidium.
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It may be known as the basis of whisky but scientists at two of Scotland’s leading scientific institutions have been tasked with distilling a new future for barley.
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On the 10th anniversary of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), six panellists reviewed the initiative's impact on the way research is assessed
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Chiara Maniaci has become the latest MRC PPU group leader and has now opened her laboratory.
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A drug developed at the University of Dundee for a neglected tropical disease could be repurposed to treat leukaemia following Fast Track Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Potato is the third most important food crop in the world and consumed by over a billion people. Pathogens can destroy entire crops and thereby threaten food security.
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UFM1 is a ubiquitin-like protein conjugated to ribosomes and is important for secretory protein biogenesis and endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis.
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The Medical Research Council has invested £200,000 in a new national network which will help scientists overcome barriers to working in interdisciplinary science
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University of Dundee research to tackle some of the world’s deadliest diseases has been boosted by new funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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An industry-wide consortium, led by producer organisation G’s Growers and supported by the James Hutton Institute, the University of Dundee and James Hutton Limited, has won a UKRI-BBSRC collaborative training partnership award.
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Seven new papers have been published this month in The Biochemical Journal, representing a major collaboration between multiple groups at the Francis Crick Institute in London, University College London and The University of Dundee.
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This year, the School of Life Sciences student representatives have worked hard to increase engagement, boost employability prospects and raise awareness of student wellbeing.
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Plant Scientists at the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute (JHI) have won funding to establish a partnership with world-class researchers in Australia.
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Experts at the University of Dundee have been awarded £2.4 million to identify compounds that could pave the way for a single dose treatment for malaria.
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The MRC PPU’s collaboration with the MRC CVR in Glasgow to generate a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus Toolkit has yielded its second important publication.
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The University of Dundee has received a seven-figure funding boost as part of a multi-million pound investment in research organisations across the UK.
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Academics from Life Sciences have contributed to a new LRRK2 Toolkit website in which all of their cDNA clones, antibodies, proteins, cell lines and mouse models are deposited.