Latest News
June 2013
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28 Jun 2013The College of Life Sciences will welcome an official delegation from Singapore’s Ministry of Health, led by its Director of Medical Services, Professor Kandiah Satku, on Monday 1 July.
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27 Jun 2013On the 28th June at 11 am in the Small Lecture Theatre, Professor Richard Flavell will give the Annual James Hutton Institute/College of Life Sciences Distinguished Lecturer in Plant Sciences seminar. He is an eminent plant molecular biologist and his talk will be excellent.
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27 Jun 2013The face of Mary, Queen of Scots, as she would have looked at the time of her reign, has been brought back to life by a renowned team of experts from the University of Dundee. The team were commissioned to recreate a 3D virtual sculpture of Mary’s face for a major new exhibition on her life that opens at the National Museum of Scotland this Friday. They have previously worked on major projects to reconstruct the faces of Bach, Cleopatra’s sister, Simon of Sudbury and Richard III among others.
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26 Jun 2013Scientists from the University of Dundee and the James Hutton Institute will this week unveil a series of living displays explaining the role of genes and genetics at the University’s Botanic Garden.
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25 Jun 2013Dundee University Rector, Brian Cox, paid an impromptu visit CLS to meet the 2013 Dundee University iGEM on Thursday, 20 June 2013 and was very impressed by their project to clean up local water reservoirs contaminated with toxic algal bloom.
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25 Jun 2013An 11-year-old Fife schoolboy who was inspired to climb a mountain after his mother was diagnosed with Parkinson’s will tomorrow visit the University of Dundee to witness the leading-edge research his efforts are helping to fund.
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25 Jun 2013A research centre at the University of Dundee dedicated to advancing understanding and treatment of human diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s, immune disorders and hypertension has been awarded £24million by the Medical Research Council to continue its work over the next five years.
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24 Jun 2013Nearly half (44 per cent) of people in Scotland don’t know their taxes fund medical research, according to a new YouGov survey run by the UK’s oldest research council, the Medical Research Council (MRC).
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18 Jun 2013X-Men star’s mutations revealed He might have been on a mission to destroy the mutant race in the X-Men series, but Hollywood actor Brian Cox found out about his own mutations when he opened a Next Generation Sequencing laboratory at the University of Dundee on Monday 17 June 2013.
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13 Jun 2013Researchers at the College of Life Sciences have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Grant to further build on the College’s success as an international centre of excellence in the fields of developmental and cell biology. The £800,000 multi-user equipment grant supports the purchase of a multi-photon laser-scanning microscope especially suited for development of cutting edge tissue imaging approaches.
