Departmental news
New RSC video explains 'Team Ice's' award-winning research
The work of 'Team Ice' has been brought to life in a new RSC-commissioned videoLink opens in a new window celebrating their Chemistry Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize, 2022.
New Warwick research is helping scientists preserve cells
New technology, covered in JACS AuLink opens in a new window, could improve the cryopreservation of cells, tissue culture and 3D cells models used in a variety of applications, including research, medical therapies and agriculture. Read moreLink opens in a new window
New Method to Cryopreserve 3D Tissue Models
Liver cell spheroids are cryopreserved using macromolecular cryoprotectants, which will enable their easy banking and sharing. Read more..;
Matt Jenner wins £1.25 million UKRI Future Leaders Funding
Dr Matthew Jenner in the University’s Department of Chemistry has received £1.25 million for the project ‘Dissecting and Harnessing Carrier Protein Interactions in Fungal Megasynth(et)ases’. Read moreLink opens in a new window
Production Polysaccharides at the Cell Surface
The Stansfeld groupLink opens in a new window, in SLS and Chemistry, have published two papers in the journal Nature on the production of polysaccharides around cells.
GibsonGroup COVID-19 work in Medical School Council Report
The Medical Schools Council today published a report showcasing the work from UK Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, including from the GibsonGroup
Congratulations to Prize-winner, Dr Christine Lockey
Congratulations go to Dr Christine Lockey, who has been announced as a Faculty Post-Doctoral Research Prize winner for “Best Warwick affiliated research output in 2020”.
Solving the puzzle of polymer-ice binding for cryopreservation
When biological material is frozen, cryoprotectants are used to prevent ice damage. How do newly emerging polymeric cryoprotectants control ice formation and growth during freezing?
Soil bacteria hormone discovery provides fertile ground for new antibiotics
The discovery of how hormone-like molecules turn on antibiotic production in soil bacteria could unlock the untapped opportunities for medicines that are under our very feet.
An international team of scientists working in the Department of Chemistry, the School of Life Sciences and the Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre at the University of Warwick, UK, and Monash University, Australia, have determined the molecular basis of a biological mechanism that could enable more efficient and cost-effective production of existing antibiotics, and also allow scientists to uncover new antibiotics in soil bacteria.
It is detailed in a new study published in the journal Nature.