Tales from the edge of modern fertilities
15 December 2020A major research project sees sociologists situated at emerging hot spots of reproductive change, investigating the new ‘haves and have-nots’ in our fertility futures.
Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists
15 December 2020The University helps the United Nations launch a new 'Ecosystem Accounting' framework: allowing governments to better include and reflect nature in their post-pandemic economic recovery.
Apathy could predict onset of dementia years before other symptoms
15 December 2020Apathy – a lack of interest or motivation – could predict the onset of some forms of dementia many years before symptoms start, offering a...
Remdesivir likely to be highly effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2 for some patients
14 December 2020The drug remdesivir is likely to be a highly effective antiviral against SARS-CoV-2, according to a new study by a team of UK scientists. Writing...
Fire: The Great Manipulator
14 December 2020Climate change is driving more frequent and intense wildfires, damaging ecosystems and causing major carbon emissions. A Cambridge researcher is figuring out how to give...
No deal Brexit could have detrimental impact for four million people in UK living with a rare disease
11 December 2020Experts have warned that a ‘no deal’ Brexit will result in the exclusion of the UK from the 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs) that were...
Reflections on a year of fighting COVID-19
11 December 20202020 will be forever remembered for COVID-19. As the year draws to a close, Dr Estée Török looks back at how colleagues across the NHS...
Surviving birth
10 December 2020Researchers at one of the busiest maternity hospitals in the world aim to help more women survive complications giving birth.
Gene therapy injection in one eye surprises scientists by improving vision in both
10 December 2020Injecting a gene therapy vector into one eye of someone suffering from LHON, the most common cause of mitochondrial blindness, significantly improves vision...
Cambridge researchers awarded European Research Council funding
09 December 2020Five researchers at the University of Cambridge have won consolidator grants from the European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premiere funding organisation for frontier research.