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Undergraduate teaching: The Natural Sciences Tripos is the framework within which most of the science is taught in Cambridge. It is taught by sixteen Departments and includes a wide range of physical and biological sciences and the history and philosophy of science.

Postgraduate teachingThe Board of Graduate Studies is charged with the admission, registration and approval of the University's graduate students. Prospective students should start here - for an introduction to the University of Cambridge, the courses we offer, how to apply for postgraduate study, how your application will be processed, and immigration and other important information.

Graduate Union: which represents graduate interests within the University, but also provides graduate-focused services - the website links to much additional information.

An additional list of useful web links for anyone interested in visiting, or coming to live in Cambridge: http://www.biomed.cam.ac.uk/gradschool/prospective.html

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Cambridge news

'Building block' biology

'Building block' biology 25 March 2010. By Mun-Keat Looi (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2010/Features/WTX059005.htm) The new field of synthetic biology aims to make biology controllable, predictable and designable. Mun-Keat Looi asks if you can really engineer a biological organism and hears how a unique competition for undergraduates is helping the field gather momentum. What if you could engineer an organism to do whatever you want: produce life-saving drugs cheaply, generate energy, or detect and clear waste from a polluted lake? And what if building that...
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Nanobiotechnology: Scaling up synthetic gene circuits

Nanobiotechnology: Scaling up synthetic gene circuits: " Nanobiotechnology: Scaling up synthetic gene circuits Nature Nanotechnology 5, 631 (2010). doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.178 Authors: Guilhem Chalancon & M. Madan Babu Complex artificial networks of genes have been designed that can sense a number of input signals in a user-defined logic to produce predictable output behaviours in mammalian cells.   (Via Nature...
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KAUST

Article from: http://www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/100327_Metzger2_su/index_EN by Sabrina Metzger Last summer, almost 400 Master's degree students started their education at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Today, there are said to be just over 300 students, with 2,000 expected in three to five years’ time. Currently, there are about 80 professors here, and it is hoped that a total of 225 will be recruited. Someday, 15,000 people are expected to be living on campus.   Read More...

Research Horizons in Cambridge

Synthetic biology takes root http://www.research-horizons.cam.ac.uk/spotlight/single-component-biology-is-past--bioengineering-has-begun2.aspx Creating circuits from multiple components is routine in engineering. Can living systems be constructed using similar principles?  Living systems are complex, often involve tens of thousands of genetically encoded components, and possess feedback mechanisms for self-organisation, reproduction and repair. They produce functional structures that are many orders of magnitude more complex than the most sophisticated man-made artefacts known today. It...
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New Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge

Gatsby Charitable Foundation funds international plant science research centre in Cambridge  Cambridge will be home to a new research laboratory for the study of plant development, thanks to the largest single gift received by the University since the launch of the 800th Anniversary Campaign. £82 million has been provided by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation for an iconic building designed by award-winning architects Stanton Williams. Construction work, led by Kier Group, has now begun on the site, which is situated in the private working area of the Botanic Garden. A groundbreaking...
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Emergent Science City: KAUST, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Emergent Science City: KAUST, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Population: 3,855,912 GDP Per Capita (PPP): $23,200 Type of Government: Monarchy Gender segregation is the law in Saudi Arabia, where women who aspire to higher education must be taught by closed-circuit television, sequestered from their male professors. But this will change for some with the 2009 opening of the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST). The university, being built on the coast 80 kilometers north of...
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Dr. Hillel Kugler - Systems modelling

Dr. Hillel Kugler Microsoft Research Cambridge Systems modelling.    
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Dr. Andrew Phillips - Pi calculus and computer modelling

Dr. Andrew Phillips Microsoft Research Cambridge Stochastic Pi calculus engines for modelling biological systems.  
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Prof. Athene Donald - Electron microscopy and soft material biophysics

Prof. Athene Donald Department of Physics Electron microscopy of biological material
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Dr. Julian Huppert - DNA architecture

Dr. Julian Huppert Department of Physics DNA architecture and gene expression    
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Prof. Ray Goldstein - Statistical mechanics and fluid dynamics in biological systems

Prof. Ray Goldstein  Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Studies of collective dynamics, mixing, and transport in concentrated microbial cultures and within plant cells. The laboratory uses advanced theoretical and experimental tools to study nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and fluid dynamics in biological systems.

       
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