“Behind every COVID-19 test sample is a person worried about their results”
04 September 2020Meet the volunteer scientists who turn swab samples into diagnoses – again and again and again.
Record number of undergraduate admissions at Cambridge, with no required deferrals and highest ever state school intake
03 September 2020The collegiate University of Cambridge will be welcoming a record number of new undergraduates next month.
Antiretroviral therapy fails to treat one-third of HIV patients in Malawi hospital
03 September 2020Antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure and drug resistance are extremely common in patients living with HIV who are admitted to hospital in Malawi, according to new research published in Lancet HIV.
The Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)
03 September 2020Cambridge researchers are supporting a project to 3D-print face shields and face masks in Malawi. The work is helping them create a 'blueprint' for using digital fabrication technologies in future emergencies.
Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients
02 September 2020A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers at the University of Cambridge showed that this approach was superior to virus detection alone for diagnosing COVID-19 disease.
Scriptures rarely a significant motivating factor behind violence, say researchers
01 September 2020Many people misunderstand the relationship between religion, scripture and violence, a new book argues. Some people worry that scriptures such as the Qur’an and the Bible fan the flames of violence in the world today, while others insist that they are inherently peaceful. According to an international team of researchers, the reality may be more complicated than either set of people think.
Cambridge professor appointed Director of the Leverhulme Trust
01 September 2020Anna Vignoles, who is Professor of Education at the University, has been appointed as Director of the Leverhulme Trust: one of the largest, all-subject providers of research funding in the UK. She will take up her new post in January, 2021.
Cambridge University Library joins Google Arts and Culture
31 August 2020Cambridge University Library partners with Google Arts and Culture to open its world-class collections freely to a global audience becoming the first University of Cambridge institution to join the platform.
Cambridge to lead national consortium examining immune response to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
28 August 2020The University of Cambridge and Royal Papworth Hospital have secured £1.5million of funding as part of the national effort by UK immunologists to understand immune responses to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Beyond the pandemic: put universities at the heart of an innovation-led recovery
28 August 2020Universities have stepped up to meet the challenges presented by the pandemic. Tomas Ulrichsen, an expert on universities and their role in innovation systems, argues that the UK must protect its R&D and innovation capabilities in the short term, and build on these strengths for the future.
