Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve medical treatments
19 Apr 2024Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical...
Artificial intelligence beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems
17 Apr 2024A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide advice.
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold
17 Apr 2024Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.
Report highlights inequalities and hidden suffering among people living with breast cancer
15 Apr 2024Many people with breast cancer ‘systematically left behind’, say researchers in Lancet Commission led by Professor Charlotte Coles.
Study unpicks why childhood maltreatment continues to impact on mental and physical health into adulthood
11 Apr 2024Childhood maltreatment can continue to have an impact long into adulthood because of how it effects an individual’s risk of poor physical health and...
£9.2m boost for next generation of Cambridge cancer experts
09 Apr 2024Cancer Research UK has announced £9.2m for Cambridge to train the next generation of doctors and scientists to bring new and better cancer treatments...
Scientists identify rare gene variants that confer up to 6-fold increase in risk of obesity
04 Apr 2024Cambridge researchers have identified genetic variants in two genes that have some of the largest impacts on obesity risk discovered to date.
UK-wide trials to begin on blood tests for diagnosing dementia
04 Apr 2024Cambridge researchers are helping lead countrywide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia, in a bid to improve...
UK's only research institute dedicated to understanding early cancer receives £11 million donation
02 Apr 2024The University of Cambridge’s Early Cancer Institute – the UK's only research facility dedicated to understanding early cancer – has received a...
‘Exhausted’ immune cells in healthy women could be target for breast cancer prevention
28 Mar 2024Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in...
Reclaim ‘wellness’ from the rich and famous, and restore its political radicalism, new book argues
28 Mar 2024A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither...
CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Anna Moore
26 Mar 2024Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and programme lead, Dr Anna Moore, discusses the NIHR BioResource’s national...