Stigma of broken family relationships compounded by lockdown
18 June 2020Lockdown restrictions have not brought estranged family members closer together, and recent focus on the importance of family support has made dealing with the pandemic...
Blood test to monitor cancer up to ten times more sensitive than current methods
17 June 2020A new method of analysing cancer patients’ blood for evidence of the disease could be up to ten times more sensitive than previous methods according...
People in England’s poorest towns ‘lose over a decade of good health’, research finds
17 June 2020Cambridge researchers find major health inequalities – as well as a geographic divide – between the most and least deprived English towns. They say that...
UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control
16 June 2020In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing measures—such as limits on...
Professor David Abulafia awarded Wolfson History Prize 2020
16 June 2020Abulafia wins for his epic history of humanity’s relationship with the world’s oceans, The Boundless Sea.
AI reduces ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people by as much as half
15 June 2020Researchers have used artificial intelligence to reduce the ‘communication gap’ for nonverbal people with motor disabilities who rely on computers to converse with others.
Striking differences revealed in COVID-19 mortality between NHS trusts
12 June 2020A University of Cambridge team led by Professor Mihaela van der Schaar and intensive care consultant Dr Ari Ercole of the Cambridge...
Saving Turkey's Children
12 June 2020Exiled by Hitler, Albert Eckstein turned his medical expertise to saving Turkey's poorest children from the curse of infant mortality.
High doses of ketamine can temporarily switch off the brain, say researchers
11 June 2020Researchers have identified two brain phenomena that may explain some of the side-effects of ketamine. Their measurements of the brain waves of sheep sedated by the...
Human embryo-like model created from human stem cells
11 June 2020New ‘gastruloid’ model, created from human stem cells, holds huge potential to understand causes of birth defects and improve disease modelling.