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We are happy to confirm that we will be participating in this year’s AIM: PhD programme. AIM: PhD is an application support programme, designed to support PhD applicants with their application for doctoral study at the University of Cambridge. Over the course of six months, participants receive support to prepare their PhD...

Living Science at PDN – Cambridge festival Saturday, 22 March, from 1.30-3pm PDN Library, Physiology Building, Downing Site. Come and support the department postdocs when they perform as part of the Cambridge Festival this Saturday. What is it like to work in a lab, to look through microscopes, or at computer screens, all...

A recent study published in Science highlights the value of pet dogs as a model for understanding obesity in both humans and animals. This work was led by PDN and Institute of Metabolic Science (IMS) academic Dr Eleanor Raffan , along with PhD students Dr Natalie Wallis and Dr Alyce McClellan . Each of the top five genes...

Congratulations to members of the PDN community, who published a new paper today in Cell Stem Cell, highlighting various findings that are significant for both stem cell and developmental biology. The paper, ‘ Ectopic expression of DNMT3L in human trophoblast stem cells restores features of the placental methylome ’...