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Dr Eftychios Frangedakis and his colleagues in the Dept. Plant Sciences have developed the OpenPlant Kit, a series of resources and techniques that simplifies genetic engineering in plants. These tools can be used for applications such as crop development and bioproduction in plants.

This term Dr. Nicola Patron (Dept. Plant Sciences & Earlham Biofoundry) and Dr. Pau Creixell (CRUK Cambridge Institute) will discuss high throughput tools and techniques and how they can benefit biological research. Click 'Read More' to add to your calendar.

Cambridge-based start-up CCA Bio are looking for collaborators to apply for an Innovate UK Smart Grant. The project will involve testing an automated cell culture platform.

Hoping to improve our understanding of cell-to-cell communications, Dr Roser Vento-Tormo and her team have developed CellPhoneDB. This an open database of ligand-receptor-interactions and an accompanying analysis tool to help identify interactions in single-cell RNAseq data.