18 Jul 2014
Physicists reveal random nature of metastasis
The spreading of a cancerous tumour from one part of the body to another may occur through pure chance instead of key genetic mutations, a new study has shown. Physicists from the University of Dundee and Arizona State University have used a statistical model to show that the formation of a new secondary tumour—commonly known as a metastasis—could just as likely derive from “common” cancer cells that circulate in the bloodstream, as from “specialist” cancer cells. Their results, which have been published today (FRI) in IOP Publishing’s journal Physical Biology, c...
16 Jul 2014
Fulbright scholars to receive warm welcome at Consulate and CAHID
Photo opportunity: 10am-5pm on Thursday, 17th July. The US students will be seeing the work carried out at the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID). A reception will this evening be held at the US Consulate in Edinburgh for 10 American students currently visiting the University of Dundee as part of the prestigious 2014 Fulbright-Scotland Summer Institute. The undergraduates from across the United States are spending the day in the city learning more about Scotland’s unique legal and political system as well as its culture and history. They will then return to Dundee and spend...
16 Jul 2014
£1.3million Wellcome Award to boost immune system research
A University of Dundee researcher has been awarded a £1.3million grant to boost research into the workings of the immune system. The Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award to Professor Paul Crocker will support his laboratory’s research for the next five years. Professor Crocker’s work focuses on proteins which regulate critical functions in our immune system and are influential in various infectious and autoimmune diseases and in septic shock. “Our bodies are continuously under threat of attack by infectious organisms,” said Professor Crocker, who is based in the College...
15 Jul 2014
The Val McDermid Mortuary revealed
She is already a critically acclaimed and bestselling author. Now the Scottish crime writer Val McDermid is to have a mortuary named after her at the University of Dundee. Val was one of a group of leading crime writers who lent their support to the University’s `Million for a Morgue’ campaign. The public were asked to not only donate money to the campaign but to vote for which of the writers they would like the morgue to be named after. The other authors who lent their support were Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Jeff Lindsay, Stuart MacBride, Tess Gerritsen, Peter James, Kathy Reichs, Mark Billi...
14 Jul 2014
Gigs, performances, screenings and readings to bring down the curtain on Studio Jamming
A fortnight into the ‘Studio Jamming: Artists’ Collaborations in Scotland’ exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), attention has turned to the 12-hour Jamming Symposium that will bring the series to a close later this month. The major new exhibition at the Cooper Gallery takes its cue from the live improvised excitement of musical jamming to celebrate artists’ collaborations. Artists and writers who have taken part in ‘Studio Jamming’ will come together with speakers and members of the public on Friday, 25th July for the marathon event j...