Likelihood of receiving an autism diagnosis may depend on where you live
24 Oct 2022New autism diagnoses tend to be clustered within specific NHS service regions, suggesting that where an individual lives may influence whether they...
Clinical trial for new stem cell-based treatment for Parkinson’s disease given go ahead
20 Oct 2022Cambridge researchers will play a key role in clinical trials of a new treatment that involves transplanting healthy nerve cells into the brains of...
Cambridge researchers join new £2 million UK consortium to tackle monkeypox outbreak
20 Oct 2022Cambridge is among 12 institutions across the UK that will be working together to tackle the monkeypox outbreak, developing better diagnostic tests...
The “zero-chance” doctor who now advises government
19 Oct 2022Growing up on free school meals at one of the lowest performing state schools in the country, Raghib Ali went on to become a leading epidemiologist...
Scientists detect dementia signs as early as nine years ahead of diagnosis
13 Oct 2022Cambridge scientists have shown that it may be possible to spot signs of brain impairment in patients as early as nine years before they receive a...
Referrals to long COVID clinic fell by 79% following roll-out of the vaccine
06 Oct 2022Referrals to Cambridge’s long COVID clinic fell dramatically in the period August 2021 to June 2022, which researchers say is likely due to the...
New route to evolution: how DNA from our mitochondria gets into our genomes
05 Oct 2022Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria – the ‘batteries’ that power our cells –...
Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health
30 Sep 2022Experts are calling on the Government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda...
Traumatic brain injury ‘remains a major global health problem’ say experts
30 Sep 2022A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-...
Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
29 Sep 2022Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing...
Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say researchers
28 Sep 2022Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early...
Inside the new institute looking at early cancer
21 Sep 2022Today sees the launch of the Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge. Its mission is deceptively simple: to detect cancer early enough to cure it.