Egging on vital research
11 July 2024Jenny Gallop uses frog egg extract to figure out key cellular processes - which has helped understand and potentially treat two rare genetic diseases in humans.
No evidence that England’s new ‘biodiversity boost’ planning policy will help birds or butterflies
28 June 2024A new legal requirement for developers to demonstrate a biodiversity boost in planning applications could make a more meaningful impact on nature recovery if improvements are made to the way nature’s value is calculated, say researchers at the University of Cambridge.
Simon Baron-Cohen wins MRC Millennium Medal for transformative research into autism and neurodiversity
20 June 2024The UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) in the UK will today present the MRC Millennium Medal 2023 to Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen, in recognition of his pioneering MRC-funded research into the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism, his establishment of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, and his work in the public understanding of neurodiversity.
Discovery of ‘new rules of the immune system’ could improve treatment of inflammatory diseases, say scientists.
18 June 2024Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell - called a regulatory T cell - exists as a single large population of cells that constantly move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue.
Rainforest wildlife under threat as below-canopy temperatures rise
03 June 2024Assumptions that tropical forest canopies protect from the effects of climate change are unfounded, say researchers.
Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts - and form new species in the process
30 May 2024Two decades of cuckoo research have helped scientists to explain how battles between species can cause new species to arise
Earth’s earliest sea creatures drove evolution by stirring the water
17 May 20243D reconstructions suggest that simple marine animals living over 560 million years ago drove the emergence of more complex life by mixing the seawater around them
Ten Cambridge scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society 2024
16 May 2024Ten outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.
Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure
13 May 2024Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the disease.
New vaccine effective against coronaviruses that haven’t even emerged yet
06 May 2024Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks - including ones we don’t even know about
