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Zegerman Lab ∣ Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
www2.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/~zegermanlab/6 Jan 2022: Such replication stress activates a checkpoint kinase response, which is essential for rescuing genome duplication and are an active area of interest for the development of new chemotherapeutic agents. -
CUSU Garden Party 2018
Duration: 00:02:20
Published Date: 2018/07/18The new CUSU committee have now taken up their new posts ahead of the 2018/19 term. Before the hand over they enjoyed mixing with their predecessors at the CUSU Garden Party at Sidney Sussex College. -
2023 Cambridge Content Creators' Programme
Duration: 00:00:59
Published Date: 2023/10/24If you're a student content creator at the University of Cambridge, we'd like to work with you! We're looking for up to 10 undergraduate and postgraduate students to join our new Cambridge Content Creators' programme. You'll be paid to create up to three videos per year for us on a mix of topics about life as a Cambridge student. We're proud to pay the Cambridge Living Wage of £10.90 an hour, -
Engineering photo competition 2015
Duration: 00:02:47
Published Date: 2015/11/10The winning photos from this year's Department of Engineering photo competition, sponsored by ZEISS. See many more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bullet-holes-and-graphene-caves-picturing-engineering Image credits: Rachel Garsed, Andrew Payne, Dilek Ozgit and Andrea De Luca, Kenichi Nakanishi, Alex Kendall. -
ERC short: Prof Ruth Cameron
Duration: 00:02:31
Published Date: 2017/03/14What has the ERC ever done for us? Prof Ruth Cameron (Materials Science and Metallurgy) explains how an ERC grant allowed her team to develop a new biomedical technology. -
Sir Mark Walport in conversation with David Cleevely, CSaP
Duration: 00:03:03
Published Date: 2013/05/08The UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Mark Walport, speaking with CSaP's Founding Director Dr David Cleevely at the CSaP's annual conference (18th April 2013). Sir Mark delivered the keynote address at the conference, his first major speech since taking office. For more, visit: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/news/article-sir-mark-walport-set-out-his-priorities/ -
Better hygiene in wealthy nations may increase Alzheimer's risk
Duration: 00:03:32
Published Date: 2013/09/04In this video, Gates Cambridge Alumna Dr Molly Fox discusses her research which suggests that people living in industrialised countries may be more likely to develop Alzheimer's. This points to what's known as the 'hygiene hypothesis', the theory that the greatly reduced contact with bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms in the developed world can lead to a weaker immune system and increased -
Naked Mole Ravolt
Duration: 00:02:20
Published Date: 2021/05/04The naked mole rat's weird biology can help us develop ways to combat painful human conditions like osteoarthritis. In Episode 2 of Naked Mole Ravolt, see what happens when a new queen arises and what a fight for supremacy reveals! -
FortyTwo – Your evolution resource
Duration: 00:01:40
Published Date: 2015/11/18Evolution is true, Darwin got it right. Why then a new website on evolution? A fair question, but only if it was like any other website devoted to evolution. This one is different, but in what way? You’ll need to visit http://www.42evolution.org to really find out, and when you do you will immediately encounter a remarkable scope of enquiry, a thrilling range of themes, levels of accessibility -
Anglo-Saxon teen buried in bed with gold cross
Duration: 00:05:12
Published Date: 2012/03/16One of the earliest Anglo-Saxon Christian burial sites in Britain has been discovered in a village outside Cambridge. The grave of a teenage girl from the mid 7th century AD has an extraordinary combination of two extremely rare finds: a 'bed burial' and an early Christian artefact in the form of a stunning gold and garnet cross. The girl, aged around 16, was buried on an ornamental bed -- a very -
Secret histories of illuminated manuscripts: the MINIARE project
Duration: 00:06:55
Published Date: 2012/10/12An innovative project at the University of Cambridge will uncover some of the hidden histories of illuminated manuscripts, thanks to the application of techniques more commonly found in scientific laboratories. The MINIARE project will help conservators repair priceless works of art and provide new insights into the cultural, social and economic circumstances of their production. And, crucially -
A dog called Jasper during trial to show spinal cord regeneration
Duration: 00:00:46
Published Date: 2012/11/19In a unique collaboration between the University's Veterinary School and MRC's Regenerative Medicine Centre, scientists used a unique type of cell to regenerate the damaged part of the dogs' spines. The researchers are cautiously optimistic that the work could have a future role in the treatment of human patients with similar injuries if used alongside other treatments. For more information, go -
Affordable Housing
Duration: 00:07:19
Published Date: 2015/02/04This short film examines some possible policy responses to the shortage of affordable housing supply in the UK. It argues that a large increase in house building is needed, much of which should be new dwellings that are affordable to rent by households on low incomes. It explains the use in other countries of policies that link initiatives to increase housing production, ensure that housing is of -
Viruses under the Mathematical Microscope: Deciphering the Code of…
Duration: 01:13:05
Published Date: 2011/05/10Newton Institute Web Seminars: newton.ac.uk/webseminars Cambridge University Science Festival lecture on Saturday 25 March 2011. Viruses, such as hepatitis and the common cold, have highly ordered protein containers that encapsulate the viral genomic material. They act as Trojan horses, transporting the genomic material inside a cell to hijack the cellular mechanism and produce new viruses. -
The New Kettle's Yard
Duration: 00:04:46
Published Date: 2018/02/28See inside the new Kettle's Yard, which opened to the public on 10 February 2018. Explore the original House at Kettle's Yard, discover the new spaces and hear about what Kettle's Yard can now offer in this film. -
Driverless vehicles trialled on West Cambridge site
Duration: 00:00:50
Published Date: 2021/06/03The suitably sci-fi autonomous vehicle is a 12-seater shuttle, developed by engineering firm Aurrigo and Smart Cambridge, a workstream of the Greater Cambridge Partnership (GCP). Read more here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/universitys-expertise-advises-on-west-cambridge-site-trial-of-self-driving-shuttle -
Forget walking... tiny insect jumps on water
Duration: 00:05:41
Published Date: 2012/12/04An insect not much bigger than a grain of rice is able to repeatedly jump on the surface of water using specialised paddles on their hind legs, new research reveals. The pygmy mole cricket, which is really more closely related to a grasshopper than a cricket, is only 5mm (1/4 inch) long and weighs less than 10mg. They live in burrows that they dig into the muddy banks alongside fresh water, to -
Successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild birds
Duration: 00:01:24
Published Date: 2023/12/07A new Cambridge University study has found that wild honeyguide birds prefer to cooperate with people who have learned local cultural traditions, to find and access honey-filled bees’ nests. -
Mathematical analysis of peer to peer communication networks
Duration: 01:03:23
Published Date: 2010/03/29Newton Institute Web Seminars: newton.ac.uk/webseminars Distributed protocols for peer to peer file sharing, streaming video, and video on demand have revolutionised the way the majority of information is conveyed over the Internet. The peers are millions of computers, acting as both clients and servers, downloading and uploading information. Information to be shared is broken into chunks, and -
The eyes have it
Duration: 00:01:44
Published Date: 2014/02/05Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other -- the first time this has been shown in non-primates. While what humans do with their eyes has been well studied, we know almost nothing about whether birds communicate with members of the same species with their eyes. The new study, published today in Biology Letters, shows that -
Magma Arta: rocks under the microscope
Duration: 00:04:23
Published Date: 2014/05/06Study of a unique rock collection -- and its astonishingly beautiful microscopic crystal structures -- could change our understanding of how the Earth works. The collection of igneous rocks, housed at the University of Cambridge's Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, dates back to at least the early 1800s and contains around 160,000 rocks and about 250,000 slide-mounted rock slices that are thin -
What is education for?
Duration: 00:37:30
Published Date: 2024/02/28Best-selling author Tara Westover (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/what-does-it-mean-to-be-educated/) , researcher Aliya Khalid (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/how-mothers-affect-their-daughters-education/) and Thabo Msibi (https://www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/thabo-msibi-south-africa/) Deputy Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at the University of KwaZulu-Natal -
Luck and lava
Duration: 00:03:47
Published Date: 2014/10/06A team of researchers from Cambridge’s Department of Earth Sciences have recently returned from Iceland where, thanks to a bit of luck, they have gathered the most extensive dataset ever from a volcanic eruption, which will likely yield considerable new insights into how molten rock moves underground, and whether or not it erupts. -
Day in the life of Cambridge rower
Duration: 00:01:43
Published Date: 2024/03/22What's it like to row competitively at Cambridge? Thomas Lynch, a PhD student at the @EngineeringCambridge and @HughesHallCambridge , let us in on at his very intense day. You can watch Tom and the rest of the crews row on Saturday 30 March. This page will tell you all the different ways to watch: https://www.theboatrace.org/spectator-information Follow @CambridgeUniversityBoatClub for the latest -
First Afro-Caribbean British Army officer David Clemetson honoured in …
Duration: 00:02:48
Published Date: 2018/09/21Millions around the world this year are reflecting on the lives that were changed irrevocably, and those that were lost in the centenary year marking the end of the First World War. Some 65 million soldiers were mobilised across Europe during the First World War. Among them was Trinity College, Cambridge, student David Louis Clemetson. Cambridge alumna Sarah Lusack tells the story of Clemetson, -
Playful naked mole-rats
Duration: 00:00:41
Published Date: 2015/09/02Playful naked mole-rats contribute to research into devastating medical conditions by Dr Ewan St. John Smith, Department of Pharmacology, who has been studying them for the past ten years. Find out more: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/n-is-for-naked-mole-rat -
New ultrasound scanners helping to conserve Manta Rays
Duration: 00:04:06
Published Date: 2019/04/30Manta rays are threatened worldwide and we still know little about their reproductive strategies. The ability to scan pregnant individuals will be invaluable in the quest to protect them. A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Manta Trust has successfully scanned a pregnant wild reef manta ray underwater to obtain clear ultrasound images of her foetus, using the world’s -
Mouse tail skin
Duration: 00:00:58
Published Date: 2012/02/20(Watch in 720p if possible) Here we can see the underside of mouse tail skin. Cambridge University's Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses of the natural and man-made world in stunning close-up. Check out the rest of the series here: http://bit.ly/A6bwCE Claire Cox: "The epidermis, which is the outer layer of mammalian skin, is maintained by numerous stem cell -
Podcast: Education’s moment of reckoning: access and inclusion in…
Duration: 00:48:43
Published Date: 2021/09/23In April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe, close to 1.6 billion children and youth were out of school due to temporary closures, representing more than 90% of students around the world, according to the United Nations. Follow the podcast: https://mind-over-chatter.captivate.fm/listen In this episode, we take an international perspective with our guests Arif Naveed, Aya Waller -
Microscopic rowers - without a cox
Duration: 00:01:20
Published Date: 2014/07/29New research shows that the whip-like appendages on many types of cells are able to synchronise their movements solely through interactions with the fluid that surrounds them. The paper, published in the journal eLife, is available at: http://elifesciences.org/lookup/doi/10.7554/elife.02750 -
Colin, Music -- 60 Second Impressions
Duration: 00:01:06
Published Date: 2012/06/14The '60 Second Impressions' are a series of one-minute films featuring current Cambridge undergraduate students . These students talk about what it's really like to study at Cambridge, live in a College, and take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Colin is from North London, and is studying Music. In his 60 Second Impression, he talks about his favourite activities, including -
Re J - Uncertain Perpetrators in Child Protection Cases
Duration: 00:09:56
Published Date: 2013/02/27In Re J (Children) [2013] UKSC 9 the Supreme Court considered a child protection case involving a mother who had previously been suspected of causing significant harm to her child, and was now looking after different children in a new relationship. Brian discusses the implications of the case and analyses the Court's attempts to balance non- intervention into family life with child protection. -
New Approaches to Maternal Mortality In Africa: Annette Nakimuli
Duration: 00:14:00
Published Date: 2012/06/29Conference Summary Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) aims to improve maternal health. Unlike other MDGs, few countries are on track to achieve even the first goal of MDG 5, namely, to reduce maternal mortality by 75%. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from the highest regional maternal mortality rate (MMR) at 640 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births and the annual decline has only been 0.1%. In -
A message from the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
Duration: 00:02:58
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Strings that surprise: how a theory progressed
Duration: 00:12:44
Published Date: 2014/03/04In August 1984 two physicists arrived at a formula that transformed our understanding of string theory, an achievement now recognised by a major award. Professor Michael Green of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics explains how string theory has taken unexpected directions. In December 2013 Professor Michael Green of Cambridge University and Professor John Schwarz of -
Paul Nurse, Society and Health, Tue 7 July
Duration: 00:09:31
Published Date: 2009/10/19Cell biology and evolutionary medicine. Professor Sir Paul Nurse (Rockefeller University, New York, USA). Summary: Darwins ideas of the tree of life and natural selection continue to inform medicine and biomedical research. For example, the single tree of life means that model organisms from bacteria to mice can be recruited to better understand human health and disease, whilst natural selection -
Footage of African greater honeyguide killing newly hatched foster…
Duration: 00:00:40
Published Date: 2011/09/05Footage of African greater honeyguide killing newly hatched foster sibling. For more info visit: www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/natural-born-killers -
The Rise of the Royal Mistresses
Duration: 01:10:18
Published Date: 2021/03/31Life during the reign of Charles II was bumpy and unpredictable. The memory of the Civil Wars and the Interregnum hung heavily in the air, and religious divides continued to aggrieve communities. But the Restoration was also a period of pleasure and merriment, embodied by the Merry Monarch himself. Theatres thronged with crowds, taverns swelled with revellers, and the streets rang with the -
Cambridge University research and the East of England
Duration: 00:08:12
Published Date: 2019/06/18Cambridge University is a global institution that is firmly and proudly planted in the East of England. Working with local partners, researchers are helping to enhance agriculture, tackle inequality, understand coastal erosion, ensure healthy ageing, and much more. “Our roots in the region run deep. The breadth and longevity of our mutually beneficial partnerships with local authorities and -
Reconstructing the Songs of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
Duration: 00:13:05
Published Date: 2016/08/17April 2016 saw the first performance of reconstructed 11th-Century ‘lost songs’ that hadn’t been heard in over 1,000 years - a performance made possible by the research of one of our lecturers (http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/first-performance-in-1000-years-lost-songs-from-the-middle-ages-are-brought-back-to-life-0) Two years on, a CD of this repertoire has just been released, and we are -
The Super-Resolution Revolution
Duration: 00:05:19
Published Date: 2015/02/27Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they are beginning to watch molecular processes as they happen, and in three dimensions. Here, Professor Clemens Kaminski describes how a new era of super-resolution microscopy has begun. The developments earned inventors Eric Betzig and William E Moerner -
New Horizons: helping people get back into work
Duration: 00:01:57
Published Date: 2019/04/02Some of the most deprived areas in England are located in the eastern region. The New Horizons project run by housing association CHS Group, with the help of Cambridge University researchers, has been helping those furthest away from the job market to get back into work. -
What is the future?
Duration: 00:53:56
Published Date: 2021/03/26Hello and welcome back to Mind Over Chatter! This second series is all about the future - and in this first episode we’re going to be considering what the future even is… Have you ever wondered how time works? It turns out, the answer is a lot more complicated than we thought. Please fill out our survey https://forms.gle/r9CfHpJVUEWrxoyx9 to tell us what your mind thinks about our chatter. -
After Climategate and Cancun; What Next for Climate Science?
Duration: 01:12:47
Published Date: 2010/12/17Newton Institute Web Seminars: newton.ac.uk/webseminars The last year has been a difficult time for climate science, with leaked emails undermining public confidence and perhaps contributing to the failure of Copenhagen to reach an agreement on emissions cuts. On top of this, mid-term elections in the US suggest it will be difficult for President Obama to carry into legislation any substantial -
‘Virtual fossil’ reveals last common ancestor of humans and…
Duration: 00:01:47
Published Date: 2015/12/18New digital techniques have allowed researchers to predict structural evolution of the skull in the lineage of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, in an effort to fill in blanks in the fossil record, and provide the first 3D rendering of their last common ancestor. Here, lead researcher Dr. Aurélien Mounier from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies describes part of the -
Becky, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic (ASNC) - 60 Second Impressions
Duration: 00:01:08
Published Date: 2012/03/01The '60 Second Impressions' are a series of one-minute films featuring current Cambridge undergraduate students . These students talk about what it's really like to study at Cambridge, live in a College, and take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Becky is from North Wales, and is studying Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic (ASNC). In her 60 Second Impression, she talks about the -
Exoplanet Hunter: In search of new Earths and life in the Universe
Duration: 00:06:20
Published Date: 2016/02/15Professor Didier Queloz hunts for extreme worlds and Earth twins in Cambridge’s Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics. Here, he tells of the moment in 1995 when he became the first to discover a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun. Astronomers had speculated as to the existence of these distant worlds – called exoplanets – but, until the discovery of 51 Pegasi b by Queloz -
Has the UK Supreme Court stopped Scottish Independence?
Duration: 00:15:33
Published Date: 2022/12/01On the 23rd November the UK Supreme court decided that the Scottish Parliament did not have the power to enact legislation to hold a second independence referendum in Scotland. In this short video Professor Alison Young explains the backdrop to the case, sets out how the Supreme court decided the case, and explores possible future paths to Scottish independence. Alison Young is the Sir David -
Katharine, Philosophy -- 60 Second Impressions
Duration: 00:01:07
Published Date: 2012/06/15The '60 Second Impressions' are a series of one-minute films featuring current Cambridge undergraduate students. These students talk about what it's really like to study at Cambridge, live in a College, and take part in a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Katharine is from Cumbria, and is studying Philosophy. In her 60 Second Impression, she talks about taking part in drama productions, -
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Duration: 00:06:16
Published Date: 2009/10/01If you would like to donate in memory of David, you may wish to give to the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity or to Darwin College. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/davidjcmackay https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/donatesteps.aspx?beneficiarycampaignid=3358 Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some
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