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DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

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DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

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Location: Great Shelford, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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Top cycling routes to DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

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1. Cambridge to Saffron Waldron loop, Via the Great Chishill Windmill and the Icknield Way

63.9km

03:49

330m

Expert bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route.

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2. Saffron Walden to Cambridge loop via Bicicletta cafe & Espresso Library

61.3km

03:38

310m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Haslingfield Village – Chapel Hill Climb loop from Cambridge

35.2km

02:03

110m

Intermediate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Bumble-Bee

June 17, 2023

Connection between Biomedical Campus and Shelford with an unfolded gene on the path. Though the paint declines (nice analogly for DNA reading faults) still impressive if you think about the amount of information stored in this relatively small gene alone.

Tim

August 15, 2018

In 2005, as a celebration of the 10,000th mile of the national cycle network, Cambridgeshire County Council and Sustrans created a DNA-inspired cycle path. The path runs from Addenbrooke’s Hospital to Great Shelford and is decorated with 10,257 colourful stripes, which represent the four nucleotides of the BRCA2 gene.

The path runs alongside a railway for two miles through the flat countryside of south Cambridgeshire and has become a popular commuter route since being opened by Nobel Prize winner Sir John Sulston.

Each end of the path is marked by a sculpture of the DNA double helix magnified 750,000,000 times.

Sam

April 17, 2020

Quick flat route into town, can be windy.

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Distance 1.31 km

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Location: Great Shelford, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

DNA Pathway (Addenbrooke’s to Great Shelford)

1. Cambridge to Saffron Waldron loop, Via the Great Chishill Windmill and the Icknield Way

2. Saffron Walden to Cambridge loop via Bicicletta cafe & Espresso Library

3. Haslingfield Village – Chapel Hill Climb loop from Cambridge

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