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July 2010
Business Weekly report on Royal Society exhibition on Twitter

March 2010 - BBSRC Impact and public engagement
Over the last decade, scientists have been encouraged to speak directly with the public about their work and the wider issues it may raise. Indeed, the terms of their grants requires them to do so, and public engagement is recognised an impact of scientific activity in its own right. During National Science and Engineering Week (12-21 March), BBSRC institutes took their science out of the lab to engage with the public – meeting with over 2,000 people and discussing the role of science in agriculture, animal disease, plant evolution and genetic diversity. In doing so, the institutes inspired children about bioscience, engaged families about food security and discussed science with a range of curious visitors. More information...

November 2009
Dr Alec Bangham MD FRS, former member of Babraham staff (1952-82), renowned for his research as the developer of the liposome model, continues to publish aged 88. A clinician by training, prior to becoming a world-leading research scientist, Dr Bangham's latest paper, entitled 'The physical chemistry of self/non-self: jigsaws, transplants and fetuses', was recently published in the journal of The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). It offers an idea based upon physico - chemical measurements that would achieve an innate immunity by hiding all and every embedded ionic site of the chimeric vasculature.
The paper is available here FASEB 23, 3644-3646, 2009.