Niall Buckley recently attended this year's Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on the Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Toxicity in New Hampshire thanks to a travel grant from the EUROTOX Congress. Niall, a postdoc in the MacFarlane lab and AstraZeneca Hepatic Safety Team, presented his work on how CDK9 inhibitors can...

With the news of cuts to mRNA vaccine development in the US, Unit Director Anne Willis joined Marnie Chesterton on BBC Inside Science to discuss the evidence behind vaccines. US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced plans this week to cancel $500 million dollars of funding for mRNA vaccine development . The...

Researchers in the Patil Lab at the MRC Toxicology Unit have contributed liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) data to a new study that has mapped changes to killifish brains that occur in ageing. The research, published in Science found that there are problems translating mRNA to protein at the translation...

During June, the MRC Toxicology Unit, Department of Biochemistry , Department of Pharmacology , and the Gurdon Institute joined together for Pride Month with a series of events to support LGBTQIA+ staff and students. This is part of a new a new phase of collaboration among the Departments on Tennis Court road to encourage...