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Crick scientists have uncovered how cells lining the lung airways change their metabolism, and how this process is key to helping the lungs heal after… More...
Researchers have identified a key protein that makes melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, more aggressive and allows cancer cells to migrat… More...
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered how, when young and old cells co-operate and exchange resources, this increases the lifespan … More...
This model could help uncover why some people are born without a clearly identifiable sex at birth, as well as the development of future fertility tre… More...
An international consortium of researchers has come together to better understand why COVID-19 was milder in some parts of the world. More...
Crick scientists in collab with Artios have identified how an enzyme involved in DNA repair (POLQ) becomes vital to the survival of certain cancers in… More...
Researchers have found that deleting two genes that encode key enzyme proteins (kinases NDR1 and NDR2), impairs the health of neurons and leads to neu… More...
Crick scientists have uncovered how a build-up of DNA molecules can impact the survival of people with severe COVID-19 or sepsis and have developed a … More...
Scientists from the Crick, Natural History Museum and University College London (UCL) have obtained the oldest human DNA from Britain thus far. More...
Lorena Arancibia Cárcamo of the Crick's Cellular Phase of Alzheimer's Disease Lab explains why we urgently need to increase awareness, raise funding, … More...
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have revealed how air pollution can cause lung cancer in people who have n… More...
Crick scientists have identified a group of latent stem cells that respond to injury in the CNS of mice, raising questions for potential treatments of… More...
Crick researchers have shown that a specific area of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is a promising target for a pan-coronavirus vaccine. More...
Geneticists and archaeologists have traced the ancestry of dogs to at least two populations of ancient wolves, brining us a step closer to answering o… More...
Researchers have found that high levels of a unique type of immune cell are linked to a greater chance of remaining cancer-free after surgery for pati… More...
Crick researchers have uncovered how the double helix structure of DNA is opened to allow DNA replication. This could lead to a better understanding o… More...
Crick researchers have developed an imaging technique to capture information about the structure and function of brain tissue at subcellular level – a… More...
An international team of researchers has identified DNA mutations in a gene that senses viral RNA as a cause of the autoimmune disease lupus, paving t… More...
Scientists at the Crick have revealed harmful changes in supporting cells, called astrocytes, in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in two publicatio… More...
Researchers at the Crick, UCL, The Royal Marsden and the ICR have developed a computer model to analyse how the way in which tumours grow affects thei… More...
Nearly 100% of cancer patients with solid tumours have antibodies effective against the Delta variant after a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine, accordin… More...