Dafina is presenting 21 October as part of the Early Researchers Seminar Series for Cambridge Reproduction SRI. Her talk is entitled “Single cell transcriptomic analysis elucidates the course of murine […]
Editors’ Highlights paper
The editors at Nature Communications have put together an Editors’ Highlights webpage of recent research called “Genetics, genomics and epigenetics” and congratulations go to Sung Gong et al as their […]
Early Researchers Seminar Series (ERSS)
Dr Francesca Gaccioli is delighted to be hosting the Cambridge Reproduction SRI Early Researchers Seminar Series taking place Thursday 10 June 2021 at 1pm. Presentations: Phenotypic and functional diversity of […]
An ancient immunoreceptor educates maternal natural killer cells to optimise reproduction
Francesco Colucci is presenting at the Cambridge Immunology and Medicine webinar series Friday 21 May 1-2pm. His talk is entitled “An ancient immunoreceptor educates maternal natural killer cells to optimise […]
Congratulations to Sung Gong, Professor Steve Charnock-Jones and colleagues on their ‘shiny’ new paper.
A study reporting high-quality placenta transcriptome based on the POPS study is published in Nature Communications. The placenta is understudied and is commonly omitted from large-scale “-omic” analyses such as […]
Maternal natural killer cells at the intersection between reproduction and mucosal immunity
Evgeniya (Zhenya) Shmeleva and Francesco Colucci sum up the knowns of natural killer cells and infections during pregnancy in their paper published today in the Mucosal Immunology journal – the […]
Slowing of fetal growth and elevated maternal serum sFLT1:PlGF are associated with early term spontaneous labor
A study led by Ulla Sovio and Gordon Smith at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, published in The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, identified new biomarkers predictive of […]
The CD94/NKG2A inhibitory receptor educates uterine NK cells to optimize pregnancy outcomes in humans and mice
The uterus of mammalian species (including humans and model organisms such as mice) contains many immune cells that are critical for a successful pregnancy. In a new paper published in […]
HOD Professor Gordon Smith new Sands Ambassador
We are delighted to share that our Head of Department, Professor Gordon Smith has taken on the role of Ambassador for Sands (Stillbirth and neonatal death charity) to help drive the […]
Early Researchers Seminar Series
Dr Irving Aye is delighted to be hosting the Cambridge Reproduction SRI Early Researchers Seminar Series taking place Thursday 8 April 2021 at 1pm. Presentations: High dimensional analysis of human […]