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PDN scientists discover the secrets behind the cuttlefish’s 3D ‘invisibility cloak’

16 February 2018

An international team of scientists led by Trevor Wardill has identified the neural circuits that enable cuttlefish to change their appearance in just the blink to eye – and discovered that this is similar to the neural circuit that controls iridescence in squids.

The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation

31 January 2018

A powerful new tool for the study of spatial memory was today described in Nature as a significant improvement over the standard, the Morris Water Maze. The study was led by the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in collaboration with PDN's Julija Krupic

Female sexual behavior in mice is controlled by kisspeptin neurons

30 January 2018

An international research team which included Prof Bill Colledge has made a major advancement in understanding how the brain controls sexual behaviour, published in Nature Communications.

Meritxell Huch awarded WICB Medal

15 December 2017

Dr Meritxell has received the 2018 Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal from the British Society for Cell Biology

OCD film wins Openness Award for depiction of animal research at Cambridge

6 December 2017

A series of films illustrating how research using animals is helping further our understanding of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) was awarded the 2017 Openness Award in the category of Website or Use of New Media

Scientists at PDN shed light on the mechanisms of early pregnancy loss

27 November 2017

Using a newly developed technique to culture mouse and human embryos in vitro beyond implantation, PDN researchers led by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz show how alteration of the first morphological transformation can lead to pregnancy termination

Dino Giussani given 2017 Nick Hales Award

24 November 2017

Prof Giussani has received the prize from the International Society for Developmental Origins of Health & Disease

Harder for T cells to fight cancer in absence of VEGF-A

13 November 2017

New research by Randall Johnson about the role of VEGF-A in helping T-cells in low oxygen environments makes the cover of Cancer Cell

Sheep are able to recognise human faces from photographs

7 November 2017

Sheep can be trained to recognise human faces from photographic portraits – and can even identify the picture of their handler without prior training – according to new research from Jenny Morton's lab

Cambridge Postgraduate Pioneers - Sarah Harrison

26 October 2017

Sarah Harrison, a final year PhD student at PDN, is featured in the University's Postgraduate Pioneer article series.

PDN scientists discover the secrets behind the cuttlefish’s 3D ‘invisibility cloak’

The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation

Female sexual behavior in mice is controlled by kisspeptin neurons

Meritxell Huch awarded WICB Medal

OCD film wins Openness Award for depiction of animal research at Cambridge

Scientists at PDN shed light on the mechanisms of early pregnancy loss

Dino Giussani given 2017 Nick Hales Award

Harder for T cells to fight cancer in absence of VEGF-A

Sheep are able to recognise human faces from photographs

Cambridge Postgraduate Pioneers - Sarah Harrison

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