The Cambridge University Botanic Garden holds a plant collection of over 8000 plant species from all over the world to facilitate teaching and research. The Garden provides resources including plant material, horticultural expertise and facilities to research workers and lecturers. Since its foundation, however, the Botanic Garden has also provided a beautiful place for everybody to enjoy and benefit from - a series of wonderful landscapes through which to discover the drama of plant diversity...

The Cambridge University Herbarium (CGE), part of the Department of Plant Sciences, is an internationally significant collection of over 1.1 million dried, pressed, and mounted plant specimens. Dating back at least as far as 1703, specimens from around the world have been added to the collection as a result of purchases, gifts, exchanges and benefactions.

The collection is particularly historically and taxonomically important, with one of the best collections of British material in the...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship. Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

CMDL provides detailed molecular genetic profiling of tumours working under Good Clinical and Laboratory Practice (GCLP) and ISO 15189:2012 guidelines. This accurate, sensitive, high-throughput genomic assay allows rapid and cost-effective molecular diagnostic service to profile oncogenic DNA alterations in clinical solid tumour samples. A single test to detect a large range of events, saving time, money and precious tissue material. Working together with data scientist and software developers...

The Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) is a World Meteorological Organisation-Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO-GAW) long term monitoring station on the island of Sao Vicente in the tropical east Atlantic. The observatory also supports campaign style field measurements, through the provision of a space, technical support, and a long running dataset to facilitate campaign planning and interpretation. The CVAO is operated collaboratively by the University of York (acting for and funded by the...

The Cardiff University Biobank facility houses a large storage space for up to 900,000 biological samples including blood, urine, tissue and saliva. The facility can provide fresh, frozen and processed (serum, plasma, slides) samples which are collected and stored to the highest standards. Patients and healthy volunteers kindly donate these biological samples to enable researchers to gain a deeper understanding of diseases. The samples are crucial in allowing researchers to find better ways to...

CATH-Gene3D was established over 25 years ago and uses both automated protocols and manual curation to combine a highly detailed knowledge of protein structural domains with the vast amount of data available on protein sequences and their functional annotations. As a result, CATH-Gene3D is able to provide unique insights into evolutionary mechanisms and structural and functional relationships across more than 22,554 species.

The structure of a protein illuminates the mechanism by which a...

WHAT IT DOES The Centre for Cell Imaging (CCI) is a world-class resource for imaging projects using optical microscopy. Our facility is equipped with the latest developments in microscopy. We examine a range of biological samples including malarial parasites, bacteria, mammalian cells, plants, chick embryos and fruit fly. We also have expertise imaging non-biological samples, such as hydrogels, cage nanocrystals and antibacterial surfaces.We also provide image analysis and support with state of...

The Centre of Excellence will provide an insect bioreactor of sufficient scale to enable research and development activities to be undertaken by multiple industries and academia. The facility will also serve for training purposes. • The insect bioreactor will enable studies utilising a diverse range of organic materials for insect rearing and will enable segregation of rearing substrates and end products. • The facility will enable research on both the downstream (organic residues) and...

CESAM is an advanced manufacturing innovation centre that provides a hub to link the NE manufacturing base to national innovation eco system. CESAM will provide a window to industrial led innovation challenges and support manufacturing competitiveness over the short, medium and long-term. It will enable companies to innovate at lower TRL’s; provide economies of scale through collaborative projects; ensure the national eco system is focused on industry led challenges; identify the best solutions...