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Congratulations to Dr Keita Tamura who has received the MRC New Investigator Award. The award will support Dr Tamura's research into object memory. Why can we easily notice a friend in a crowd and say ‘Hello’? Previous studies have revealed how visual inputs are analysed, memorised and recalled, but how the recalled memory...

This year's Kyoto Prize for Sciences has been awarded to Director of Research at the Gurdon Institute, Professor Azim Surani . The Kyoto Prize is an international award of Japanese origin, given to individuals who have made significant contributions in the fields of science and technology, as well as the arts and...

The Rawlins lab has been awarded an ERC Advanced grant focused on developing the underpinning knowledge for future human lung regeneration: LungDeCode. Some lung diseases are even more deadly than cancer. The aim of the new grant obtained by the Rawlins lab is to understand, or decode, how the human lungs normally control...

Cardiac arrhythmias pose a serious global health challenge. The commonest sustained arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF), affects 1–2% of the worldwide population. Antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) remain central to their management. The historic, widely accepted Vaughan Williams (VW) classification based on then available (1975...