The Babraham Institute undertakes world-leading research into understanding the biology of how our bodies work, including what changes as we age and during disease. Our research is split into three programmes: Epigenetics, Signalling, and Immunology, supported by strategic programme grants from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and additional funding from research councils, the EU and charities.
We maximise the impact of our research through Knowledge Exchange, Commercialisation and Public Engagement activities. We do this by collaborating with other academics, policy makers, charities, schools, the general public and industry, including companies on the Babraham Research Campus. Commercialisation is achieved in collaboration with the Institute’s wholly-owned trading arm, Babraham Institute Enterprise Limited.
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We offer sequencing and library preparation services that are tailored to suit research needs. Our Facility is also open for external users on a fee-for-service basis.
Our state-of-the-art Biological Support Unit provides housing and care for pathogen-free rodents. It supports research across the Institute as well as providing services
The Lipidomics Facility undertakes the detection and identification of lipids, with a focus on providing biological meaning to these generated lipid profiles through bios
To provide a research interface between chemistry and biology to solve biological questions.
The Babraham Institute Flow Cytometry Core Facility offers high quality service and state-of-the-art instrumentation to members of Babraham Institute and external users.
The primary role of the Facility is to apply state of the art techniques in mass spectrometry to address important biological questions, within the remit of the Institute
To deliver gene targeting capabilities including the production of transgenic mouse models. The gene targeting facility aims to enable BI scientists to carry out the l
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Enrichment of alleles encoding variants with constitutively hyperactive NADase in patients with ALS and other motor nerve disorders.
Gilley J, Jackson O, Pipis M,
eLife
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19 Nov 2021
PMID: 34796871
Human immune diversity: from evolution to modernity.
Liston A, Humblet-Baron S, Duffy D,
Nature immunology
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18 Nov 2021
PMID: 34795445