Tackling COVID-19: Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
22 Oct 2020Her plans to study the effects of social isolation on adolescents have become particularly pertinent this year. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is a cognitive...
Lockdown or not, personality predicts your likelihood of staying home during the pandemic
15 Oct 2020Despite more of the population staying at home as government policies on COVID-19 become stricter, a study has found that a person’s personality...
Many ventilation systems may increase risk of COVID-19 exposure, study suggests
29 Sep 2020Ventilation systems in many modern office buildings, which are designed to keep temperatures comfortable and increase energy efficiency, may increase...
Beyond the pandemic: rethink the menu and how much it costs
24 Sep 2020Boris Johnson has urged the country “to lose weight to beat coronavirus” through exercise and healthy eating. Dr Jean Adams suggests that food...
How machine learning can help to future-proof clinical trials in the era of COVID-19
23 Sep 2020The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global healthcare crisis of our generation, presenting enormous challenges to medical research, including...
Placenta is initiated first, as cells of a fertilised egg divide and specialise
23 Sep 2020The first stages of placental development take place days before the embryo starts to form in human pregnancies. This new finding highlights the...
The Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)
03 Sep 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...
Tackling COVID-19: Professor Daniela De Angelis
20 Aug 2020Since January this year, Daniela De Angelis and her team have been informing the UK Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their real-time...
Prevention of heart disease can start before birth
19 Aug 2020Mitochondrial therapy in complicated pregnancies lowers the chance of cardiovascular problems in the offspring.
Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer
03 Aug 2020Four-stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time...
Beyond the pandemic: reduce the risk of animal viruses jumping to humans
30 Jul 2020Cambridge zoologists Bill Sutherland and Silviu Petrovan warn that we must dramatically change the way we interact with animals to reduce the risk of...
Launch of 'Beyond the pandemic': where should we go from here?
30 Jul 2020The COVID-19 crisis is forcing us all to change direction, to rethink what we do and how we do it. In a new series, launched today, we ask our...