MIB in the media
MIB shares design award
Manchester’s newest skyscraper and an innovative science centre are joint winners of an award for the city's best developments.
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Manchester Evening NewsBiocentre united all in seeking key to life
The Times Higher Education Supplement, published 13th May 2005.
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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology VOL 5, November 2004
The ultimate goal for biology is to become a science that formulates out understanding of subcellular, cellular and multicellular systems in terms of quantitative, holistic models that are underpinned by the rigorous principles of physical science and mathematics. This can only be achieved through interdisciplinary research that draws heavily on the expertise and technologies of the physical sciences, engineering, computation and mathematics. Here, Professor John McCarthy discusses the benefits and challenges (both intellectual and practical).
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Education Guardian, 22nd October 2004
World-class academics and cutting-edge facilities sugest exciting times ahead for researchers in the north-west. Bioscience, cell research, tissue engineering…
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Education GuardianAll Systems Go
Nature, VOL 427, 5th February 2004
The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre is scheduled to open in 2005. The Institute will be the first large-scale centre of its kind in the country. More than 500 staff, including up to 85 investigators, will pool their talents to study systems biology from the nano to the macro scales.
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Nature, VOL 425, 25th September 2003
The merger of VUM and UMIST is creating a chance to break out of Universities that are solely organised around traditional disciplines. Perhaps the most tangible example of such thinking is one of the University's most ambitious building projects, the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB).
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