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The Department of Life Sciences investigates the properties and inter-relationships of organisms, including humans, other animals and plants - covering different levels of biological organisation, from molecules to communities of organisms.

The Department is made up of 36 academics who undertake research and teaching across a wide range of the biological and biomedical sciences. This group is supported by course managers, course-team assistants and secretarial staff, post-doctoral researchers, and technical staff.

Head of Department: Dr Hilary MacQueen.

A culture of human astrocytes showing F-actin (red), focal adhesion kinase (green) and DNA (blue)

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17th March 2010

Dr Duncan Banks gives a talk to Diabetes UK

Duncan Banks spent an evening with members of Diabetes UK in Chelmsford on Tuesday 16th March. The title of his talk was "The psychological impact of diabetes". He gave examples of his personal experiences of people with diabetes, how the condition ...

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