The dramatic improvement following CRISPR-based research interventions for sickle cell disease offers hope for patients. ... There has also been significant progress in basic research on deriving functional gametes from stem cells.

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt FRS was joined on the judging panel by: Dr Shukry James Habib, stem cell specialist and Royal Society University Research Fellow; bestselling author Dorothy Koomson; actor and

They also champion those who have reinforced science’s place in society, whether through inspiring public engagement, improving our education system, or by making STEM careers more inclusive and rewarding. ... Professor Clare Grey FRS, University of

How will stem cell technology revolutionise medicine? What is the value of biodiversity in our changing world? ... The Web is a complex system, but unlike others we study - the cell, the brain, the cosmos - it is a system which we have designed and which

Professor Robertson is a developmental biologist who studies mouse embryology and development to shed light on how cells acquire specialised function in the mammalian embryo. ... cell-cell interactions that underpin the first few critical days of the

His discoveries have broad implications for the control of cell-cell communication throughout the nervous system. ... He is using his discoveries to design and develop molecules that target major cell signalling pathways in neurons and in glial cells

Embryo models: how stem cells reveal the mysteries of development. Scientists are using stem cell-based embryo models to study the early stages of human development, raising several questions: what does ... What are stem cells? What we can learn from

Dr Elisa Laurenti (Wellcome Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow) from the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute will talk to you about blood stem cells, explain why they are among the most ... powerful cells in our body, and why cooperation between different

Mitochondria are the batteries of our cells making the energy for the cells to function. ... Amy is a woman in STEM and a member of the LGBTQ+ community in STEM.

Professor Oreste Acuto. University of Oxford. Molecular mechanisms of TCR signalling determining T cell fates. ... Professor Fiona Watt. King's College London. Manipulating the stem cell niche at single cell resolution.