Posted on Monday 20 May 2013

Erica Kintz, postroctoral fellow in the Van der Woude lab in the CII, wrote an informative summary of the workshop "Standing up for Science" that she attended in November 2012, for the members journal of the Society of General Microbiology (Microbiology Today; February 2013).

Posted on Monday 13 May 2013

Cizzle Biotechnology Limited, a spin-out company from the University of York and leading clinical diagnostics company Fujirebio Diagnostics Incorporated (FDI) have today announced a co-development and licensing deal for a blood test for the detection of early stage lung cancers.

Posted on Wednesday 8 May 2013

The Vice-Chancellor's Awards for 2013 have recognised the high quality of a range of activities in Biology this year.

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

In early 2001, during the darkest days of the Foot and Mouth epidemic, Professor Dianna Bowles, former Director of the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York and part-time sheep farmer, received an unexpected phone call from a farmer in Cumbria.

Posted on Friday 3 May 2013

Construction is due to start this July for a new 1700m2 teaching block that will house two large high-tech teaching laboratories and a 120 seat computer room.

Posted on Friday 26 April 2013

A team of undergraduate Biology students at the University of York is developing a bacteria powered electrical battery as part of a global synthetic biology competition.