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...

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...

Founded in 1883, Cardiff University is ranked among the top five universities in the UK for research excellence, and is the only Russell Group university in Wales. Cardiff University Special Collections and Archives was established in 2005 to improve the discovery, visibility, access to, and use of the University Library Service's unique and distinctive collections. We are home to c. 100,000 print volumes dating from the 15th century to the modern day, 700 metres of historical and modern...

The Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (CAESR) provides a world-class facility for use by scientists across the physical and life sciences. In addition to providing experimental infrastructure, CAESR aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach to the development of electron spin resonance that is driven by the symbiosis between methodology design and technique application. Research performed in CAESR is internationally leading, as evidenced by the excellent publication record. The...

The UK is world-renowned for its unique portfolio of national birth cohort studies. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is home to four multidisciplinary, nationally representative longitudinal cohort studies, which form a vital part of the UK’s data infrastructure. These studies are: Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, b.2000/1), Next Steps (b.1989/90), 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70), National Child Development Study, (b.1958, NCDS). The Centre is responsible for the scientific direction and...

The National Child Development Study follows the lives of an initial 17,415 people born in Great Britain in a single week in March 1958. At birth 98% of all babies born in the target week were enrolled. The study was further augmented in childhood with immigrants into GB. The study is the second oldest of the UK’s national birth cohort studies, which follow people from birth and across the whole of their lives. It forms one of four national longitudinal studies at the Centre for Longitudinal...