When you next take a train from St Pancras have a think about what might be going on beneath your feet.

Just across the road from the station, and 28 metres below the pavement, world leaders in their field are working with some of the highest resolution microscopes on the market to investigate the causes of cancer and other diseases.

The recently opened Frances Crick Institute brings together scientists from all over the world under one roof and is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Imperial College, King's College, the Medical Research Council, University College London and the Wellcome Trust.

I was privileged to be invited to visit recently and I would like to thank the Head of Electron Microscopy, Lucy Collinson, and her colleague, Marie Charlotte, for an extremely interesting tour of the labs.