Revolutionary Biology

NDM celebrates the International Year of Crystallography. Our documentary series Revolutionary Biology explains how the field of structural biology has developed over the past 100 years, Oxford’s involvement in that development, and where we go from here!

Nuffield Department of Medicine Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Part 4: A New Age of Drug Discovery	You just have to step into your local chemist to see how far medicine has come over the past 100 years. Life changing drugs, which were once unthinkable – like antibiotics, insulin and the contraceptive pill – are now commonplace.	Jonathan Webb	5 November, 2014
Part 3: Advanced technology	Just over a decade ago the face of British farming changed forever. A devastating outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease led to the enforced slaughter and incineration of over 10 million livestock across the country.	Jonathan Webb	5 November, 2014
Part 2: The history of structural biology	Understanding the function of a protein is an important step in finding out why the body succumbs to disease – but how do scientists find these proteins and figure out how they work?	Jonathan Webb	5 November, 2014
Part 1: The Building Blocks of Life	Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells but it doesn’t matter how closely you look, you still won’t see them.	Jonathan Webb	28 October, 2014

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