It was with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Dr Nancy Lane Perham OBE last month at the age of 89. She was a pioneering cell biologist and a champion of women in science. Nancy was a member of our department and fellow of Girton College from 1968 until her retirement in 2006. She was an outstanding microscopist...

Congratulations to Dr Charles Emogor and Professor Stephen Montgomery, winners of prestigious awards at the Zoological Society of London’s annual awards ceremony yesterday. Professor Montgomery was awarded the Society's Scientific Medal for outstanding contributions to zoology by an early career researcher. Professor...

A paper lead by Gates Cambridge Scholar Andres Alfonso-Rojas published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the has attracted widespread press attention. Andres, who is a PhD student here in the Vertebrate Palaeontology Group , studied 12 million year old anaconda fossils, to find they have been giants for...

The Cambridge Biotomography Centre, based here in the Department of Zoology, is a leading UK facility for high-resolution 3D imaging using micro-computed tomography (MicroCT) and X-ray tomography. The Centre's scanners allow researchers and industry clients to see internal structures without destroying the objects examined...