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Scientists have determined the first 3D structures of intact mammalian genomes from individual cells, showing how the DNA from all the chromosomes intricately folds to fit together inside the cell nuclei.

A Cambridge neuroscientist has today won the world’s most valuable prize for brain research, shared with two London neuroscientists. This year, ̽»¨Ö±²¥Brain Prize for 2017 is awarded to Cambridge’s Wolfram Schultz, together with Peter Dayan and Ray Dolan from ̽»¨Ö±²¥ College London for their analysis of how the brain recognises and processes reward. 

Scientists at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have managed to create a structure resembling a mouse embryo in culture, using two types of stem cells – the body’s ‘master cells’ – and a 3D scaffold on which they can grow.

Early warning signs of Huntington’s disease have been uncovered in a sheep carrying the human disease-causing genetic variant, providing new insights into this devastating illness, a new study in Scientific Reports has found.

̽»¨Ö±²¥size of a female animals' brain may determine whether they live longer and have more healthy offspring, according to new research led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge. 

A large-scale genetic study has provided strong evidence that the development of insulin resistance – a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart attacks and one of the key adverse consequences of obesity – results from the failure to safely store excess fat in the body.

A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by boosting a patient’s immune system – may fail in a substantial number of patients. 

A new treatment that might one day help all patients with haemophilia, including those that become resistant to existing therapies, has been developed by researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ten UK universities who do the most world-leading biomedical research have announced their animal research statistics, revealing that they collectively conducted a third of all UK animal research in 2015.

A new model of fatal brain diseases is being developed in the fruit fly by a team led by Dr Raymond Bujdoso at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, and could lead to a low cost, fast and efficient blood test to diagnose – and prevent possible transmission of – variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).