Cambridge's Raj Jena becomes UK's first Professor of AI in radiotherapy
17 Oct 2024The creation of the new Clinical Professorship signals the importance of AI in the fight against cancer and builds on the University’s work to apply...
Supertroopers: CAR-T cell cancer therapy
16 Oct 2024A life-saving cancer therapy is being scaled up in Cambridge to deliver more treatments to more patients for more cancers.
Cancer Research UK makes unprecedented £173m investment in University of Cambridge
15 Oct 2024Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has today announced a £173 million investment in its institute at the University of Cambridge - the largest single grant...
Cambridge joins forces with ARIA to fast-track radical new technologies to revolutionise brain health
09 Oct 2024A team from across the Cambridge life sciences, technology and business worlds has announced a multi-million-pound, three-year collaboration with the...
Ultra-powered MRI scans show damage to brain’s ‘control centre’ is behind long-lasting Covid-19 symptoms
08 Oct 2024Damage to the brainstem – the brain’s ‘control centre’ – is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a...
Back to BRCA: the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene
07 Oct 2024In 1994, a landmark paper identified a gene – BRCA1 – that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers when faulty. Thirty years...
Mental Health Overhaul: probing the processes behind the symptoms
04 Oct 2024A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
Combining kidney and lung cancer screening helps identify tumours early
23 Sep 2024Combining screening for lung and kidney cancers could help identify undiagnosed cases of kidney cancer, say researchers as they release the results...
Removing pint glasses could reduce beer sales by almost 10%
18 Sep 2024Cambridge researchers have shown that reducing the serving size for beer, lager and cider reduces the volume of those drinks consumed in pubs, bars...
Monoclonal antibodies offer hope for tackling antimicrobial resistance
16 Sep 2024Monoclonal antibodies – treatments developed by cloning a cell that makes an antibody – could help provide an answer to the growing problem of...
Cancer researchers and astronomers join forces in fight against disease
13 Sep 2024A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and...
Team’s hip replacement surgery invention is set to be world first
13 Sep 2024Technology that could transform the future of hip replacement surgery is being pioneered by a team of experts in Cambridge.