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‘Open Africa, Open World’: The Faculty of Biological Sciences celebrates Africa Week 2024
The Faculty of Biological Sciences join the University in celebrating the strengths, diversity and impact of African scholars, organisations and partnerships.
AI system can predict the structures of life’s molecules with stunning accuracy – helping to solve one of biology’s biggest problems
Professor Richard Bayliss, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Dr Charlotte Dodson, University of Bath, reflect on what the latest developments in AlphaFold 3 mean for biologists.
Quench your thirst for knowledge at Pint of Science
Join researchers from the Faculty of Biological Sciences as the world-wide science festival comes to Leeds between 13-15 May.
Nanobody technology offers promise for stopping cancer spread
A newly discovered nanobody, Nb 3E11, stops a cancer-spreading protein called Fascin-1 from forming cell-surface protrusions.
Rescuing ribosomes and bewildering bear hugs: inside a critical biological process
A group of scientists from the University of Leeds and the University of Dundee have discovered new knowledge in how ribosomes – the key machinery that makes proteins for our cells - are rescued.