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Technology Innovation Challenges
Advanced technologies to transform our understanding of life.
Multidimensional Imaging of Molecular Structures
Integrated Chemical Imaging of Cells
Artificial Intelligence and Informatics for Predictive Biology
Molecular Perturbations: Chemistry Engineering Biology
Life Science Challenges
Focussed areas of investigation on significant long-term health challenges which put our technologies through their paces.
How Pathogens Interact with Human Cells
Quantitative Biology Across Scales
Emerging Interest Area: Cell-cell Interactions
Emerging Interest Area: Imaging the Sub-cellular Functional Genomics of Disease
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Rosalind Franklin’s Life
Dr Rosalind Franklin was a physical scientist by background but applied these techniques to understand the biological sciences, we are proud to continue this legacy in our work.
Dr Franklin was most famous for her work on DNA, but this only amounts to a small portion of her career, find about more about Dr Rosalind Franklin and her other research here.
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New bifunctional, bispecific nanobodies scaffold helps with small protein imaging
Researchers at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, University of Oxford, and Diamond Light Source have combined their expertise to create new scaffolding molecules to allow the electron microscopy imaging of small proteins (below 50 kDa).
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