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CEB spinout opens pilot manufacturing facility

CEB spinout opens manufacturing facility Immaterial, a spinout company founded by the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology’s Professor David Fairen-Jimenez, has opened a pilot manufacturing facility in Sawston, south of Cambridge. The opening of the facility marks a milestone in translating advanced materials research into industrial production, enabling the company to manufacture its proprietary […]

Our team wins second place at the CEB Robot Club

Group of people with medals looking happy at RObot Club tournament, outside CEB.

Research group places second in 2026 Robot Club tournament Ed, Yuetong, Amir and Anne-Pia competed in the CEB robot club and got awarded second place!  They also won the medal for best innovation for their circular saw on an arm of the delightful Bot2Go! The team hope to once more enter a team in the […]

Congratulations to our Part IIB students

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Part IIB students complete GUV imaging project Congratulations to our Part IIB students, Boyd and Shonit, on successfully submitting their final project reports. Over the course of the academic year, they worked on imaging membrane fluidity in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), making excellent progress on this challenging research project. We would also like to thank […]

New review published in Annual Review of Biophysics

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New review published in Annual Review of Biophysics We are delighted to share that our new review, ‘Imaging dynamic subcellular organisation at high spatiotemporal resolution’, has been published in the Annual Review of Biophysics. The review explores what we can learn by visualising the movement of intracellular compartments, which underpin essential cellular functions such as […]

New preprint explores Antarctic fish cell biology

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New preprint explores Antarctic fish cell biology We are excited to share that our new preprint on primary cell culture from Antarctic fish has been published. It is now available on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.24.720652v1.abstract Antarctic fish are cold-blooded animals that live year-round at temperatures between -2 and 2 °C. Such extreme conditions present major challenges for […]