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Sixth formers broaden their horizons at the Babraham Institute Conference delegates

The Babraham Institute opened its doors recently to over 60 sixth formers from around the region for a unique learning experience. Established in 2009, this conference provides Applied Science students with in-depth information about the Babraham Research Campus and career options related to science.
29th November 2011

Babraham Institute to lead £3.6M research project investigating how ageing affects immunity Martin Turner with Babaraham Institute, BBSRC, MRC and University of Cambridge logo

Maintaining a healthy lifespan for an increasingly older population is a major challenge facing society. Efforts to understand the effect of ageing on the immune system received a boost today as the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) announced investment in a new £3.6 million research project, which will be led by researchers from the Babraham Institute with partners from the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.
29th November 2011

Babraham Researchers Receive European Accolade Wolf Reik and Peter Fraser with the Academica Europaea logo

Two researchers from the Babraham Institute have been elected as members of the Academia Europaea, an international association of scientists and scholars with elected members selected from the whole European community across all academic disciplines.
15th November 2011

EMBO selects Babraham Immunologist for its prestigious Young Investigator Programme Blueprint logo

Marc Veldhoen, Group Leader at the Babraham Institute, has been selected as one of 22 new scientists to join the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator Programme, which aims to support the career development of Europe’s most promising young researchers.
10th November 2011

Babraham Researcher awarded €1.5M Grant from the European Research Council Marc Veldoen

Dr Marc Veldhoen, a Group Leader at the Babraham Institute, has been awarded a prestigious grant by the European Research Council (ERC). His €1.5M award from the ERC will enable further investigation into understanding how cells of the immune system interact with microbes in the gut to influence immunity, metabolism and potentially safeguard the gut from inflammatory disorders like inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
21st October 2011

Babraham announced as partner in €M30 European project to decipher the epigenome Blueprint logo

Researchers from the Babraham Institute's Epigenetics Laboratories are partners in an exciting new initiative, launched this month by the health-research division of the European Commission with an investment of €30-million. The 4 year project, known as BLUEPRINT, aims to unravel how the epigenome influences health and disease and will be a major contributor to the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC).
20th October 2011

Green vegetables directly influence immune defences and help maintain intestinal health sections

Leafy greens, widely recognised as containing essential ingredients for ensuring optimum health and wellbeing, have been shown to influence our intestinal health by delivering a protective factor to certain cells of the immune system. These findings have implications for better understanding the basis of intestinal inflammatory disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and may offer new opportunities for therapeutic intervention.
13th October 2011

Babraham epigenetics research paves the way for a better understanding of unexplained infertility Epigenetics Image

Scientists at the Babraham Institute have made a breakthrough in understanding how mammalian genomes are modified in the egg and sperm and are reprogrammed after fertilisation, which also has implications for better understanding fertility.
18th August 2011

Babraham Bioscience Boot Camp inspires a new generation
28th July 2011

Babraham scientists awarded inaugural Wellcome Trust Investigator Awards
7th June 2011

Babraham's Biotechnology Investment Forum 2011 fosters finance opportunities for 16 companies
6th June 2011

Babraham scientist elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society
20th May 2011

Babraham Research Campus visited by local MP and MEP to see impact of investment
16th May 2011

Babraham Nursery receives outstanding Ofsted report and celebrates opening of new facilities
15th April 2011

Babraham scientists reveal how white blood cells get activated in auto-immune disease, helping to better target drugs for these disorders
12th April 2011

Newly discovered epigenetic tag offers insight into embryonic stem cell regulation
3rd April 2011

Babraham researchers discover how tumour cells acquire resistance to new emerging drugs
28th March 2011

Babraham Research Campus receives £44M boost for bioscience innovation
24th March 2011

Babraham research provides insights how genomes are reprogrammed at the start of life
15th March 2011

Babraham Institute develops new way of seeing signalling molecules at work
9th March 2011

Babraham research provides new insights into factors ensuring a healthy pregnancy
7th February 2011

Other news and comment

April 2011
'Building on a legacy in antibody research'
Article in BBSRC Business Winter 2011

14th January 2011
With world-class facilities and a vibrant research community, the Babraham Research Campus has recently attracted some of the most exciting new generation antibody companies in Europe. This cluster of commercial excellence complements expertise at the Babraham Institute, an institute of BBSRC, where fundamental research is driving new technologies and innovation.
Building on a legacy in antibody research - report on BBSRC website

12th November 2010
At the Babraham Institute to open their new bioincubator - Julian Huppert MP on Twitter

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 laboratory 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.