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Former Lister Prize Fellow, Prof. Dan Davis, has written a popular-level book about immunology, entitled The Compatibility Gene (published by Penguin books).
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Currently at the University of Glasgow Lister Institute Prize Fellow Professor Nia Bryant has been promoted to Chair of Cell Biology at the University of York.
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Former Fellows, Professor Judith Armitage, University of Oxford and Dr Phillip Hawkins, The Babraham Institute, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society in 2013.
Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and awarded an NIHR professorship to continue her translational work on identifying patients at risk for cancer of the oesophagus through molecular abnormalities
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Molecular motors have critical roles in trafficking of organelles and macromolecules within the cytoplasm, and aberrant motor function has been implicated in diseases such as neurodegeneration.
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Disruption to myelin contributes to the symptoms of numerous devastating conditions of the nervous system, including the demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis,
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DNA fingerprinting has become an indelible part of society, helping to prove innocence or guilt in criminal cases, resolving immigration arguments and clarifying paternity. Its inventor, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, University of Leicester, looks back at how it began.