News and EventsNews
Subscribe to the latest CSC news via our RSS feed
16 Jan 2012
Microtuning
26 Dec 2011
A Supporting Cast of Hundreds
19 Dec 2011
Fertility Switch
5 Dec 2011
How the Brain Makes Maps
5 Sep 2011
Summer Students
14 Nov 2011
Senescence Surveillance: Cancer Immune Response
7 Nov 2011
Professor Anne Soutar Retires from Research
3 Nov 2011
Jesus Gil Comments on Senescence Finding
15 Jul 2011
CSC Undergraduate Symposium
24 Oct 2011
Unsticking DNA 'Shoelace Ends'
6 Oct 2011
Genetic Link for a 'Heavy Heart'
3 Oct 2011
How To Proofread a Genome
19 Sep 2011
Epigenesys Award
13 Sep 2011
Imaging Excellence
12 Sep 2011
The Right Timing
7 Jan 2011
New Year Honours
29 Aug 2011
Quality Control
1 Jun 2011
Professor Dominic Withers elected FMedSci
22 Aug 2011
Cholesterol and Cellular Retirement
15 Aug 2011
Echoes from the Past: Birth and Body Fat
15 Oct 2010
Roche Continents
8 Aug 2011
Moonlighting: the Cohesin Story
28 Jul 2011
Transatlantic Heart Network
22 Jul 2011
Bombarded
15 Jul 2011
Live Imaging
7 Jul 2011
Pulmonary Fibrosis - New Treatment :: Video
21 Jun 2011
Playing the Blank Square :: Video
6 Jun 2011
Seizure
23 May 2011
Pioneering Heart and Kidney Research
12 May 2011
Shock to the System
8 Apr 2011
DNA Diary: Gene Control Mechanisms and Disease
30 Mar 2011
When the Going Gets Tough
14 Mar 2011
Supercoiled!
28 Feb 2011
Architects of Forever
10 Feb 2011
Bile Beginnings
17 Jan 2011
Wonder About Words
10 Jan 2011
Unfriendly Firing
25 Oct 2010
Far From Restful
1 Oct 2010
Micro Maintenance
22 Sep 2010
Blunt Scissors in the Immune System
14 Sep 2010
Not Just Sex
10 Sep 2010
What is Fat?
8 Sep 2010
The Main Player
27 Aug 2010
Clogged Up
13 Aug 2010
Primed
23 Jul 2010
Understanding Hypertension
6 Jul 2010
Reversal of Fortune
1 Jun 2010
Significant Stats
25 May 2010
Bumpology: Perinatal Imaging
15 Apr 2010
Root of Myelodysplasia?
26 Mar 2010
Ready for Action
3 Mar 2010
Stem Cell Tools
26 Jan 2010
Evolutionary Changes in ApoER2
30 Nov 2009
First 3D MRI Scans of Unborn Babies
6 Nov 2009
Delaying Old Age?
5 Nov 2009
Breakfast Like a King
28 Oct 2009
Runx: T reg cell keeper and creator
28 Sep 2011
TOBY Trial - Neonatal Medicine
7 Sep 2009
Meiosis
22 Aug 2009
Senescence Barrier to Stem Cells
20 Jun 2009
Integrative Genomics and Medicine
22 Jun 2009
Neonatal Medicine
14 Jul 2009
Polystyrene Parcels
30 Jun 2009
Quantitative Systems Biology
12 Jun 2009
Nitric Oxide Signalling
12 Jun 2009
White Matter and Schizophrenia
20 May 2009
Cohesin Forms Chromosome Loops
18 May 2009
Behind the Barrier
8 May 2009
Reprogramming & Chromatin
10 Mar 2009
Learning From Our Mistakes
19 Feb 2009
Mighty Morphogens
7 Feb 2009
Transcription: Stop!
4 Feb 2009
Change without REST?
19 Jan 2009
Dopamine Levels Offer Clue to Schizophrenia
12 Jan 2009
White Matter Matters
1 Dec 2008
Big Hearts' Genetic Origins
Latest news
Microtuning
How micro-RNAs fine tune gene expression
16 January 2012
PRC1 is a polycomb group (PcG) protein – with a special role in resculpting the nuclei of stem cells during lineage specification [the irreversible ‘choice’ a stem cell makes in turning into a specific cell type]. What has perplexed scientists researching its function is that PRC1 takes on numerous different forms – 180 to be exact, with no clear reason why such multiplicity would be needed for cellular function.
