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Cambridge research that will enable scientists to grow and study embryos in the lab for almost two weeks has been named as the People’s Choice for Science magazine’s ‘Breakthrough of the Year 2016’. Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience has developed a new technique that allows embryos to develop in vitro, in the absence of

Dr Becky Inkster is a research associate in the Department of Psychiatry and a senior project manager for the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network. Her public engagement work explores the intersection of art and science through the prism of mental health research. Dr Inkster has successfully collaborated with The Scarabeus Theatre in a performance called Depths of My Mind and founded the website

The brain is made up of billions of nerve cells, or neurons, wired together in a highly complex and organised way. But how do they know where to go when the brain is developing? These remarkable time-lapse movies capture the journey of living neurons in the frog brain. Narrated by Professor Christine Holt, these movies show some of the discoveries of her research group in the Department of