Gender equality on the slide?
06 August 2008Support for gender equality in Britain and the US appears to have peaked and could now be going into decline, research at Cambridge University has...
Glaxosmithkline teams up with Cambridge to deliver new medicines
25 July 2008University of Cambridge to pioneer drug development by academic incubators.
Judge Business School launches management centre
24 July 2008Academics and industry collaborate to deliver a partnership-based forum for sharing and researching best practice.
New test may lead to early diagnosis of devastating eye condition
24 July 2008A test to show whether a person may be genetically predisposed to suffer one of the most prevalent forms of blindness in the elderly -...
IMF loans “strongly linked” to tuberculosis
22 July 2008The rapid spread of tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been fuelled by the economic policies of the International Monetary Fund...
New institute to study obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders
21 July 2008A new centre on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next to Addenbrooke's Hospital will address the growing threat to public health posed by obesity, diabetes and related diseases.
Six University scholars elected to British Academy
18 July 2008Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars in the...
One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics
16 July 2008Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature super-conductivity, according to a paper recently published...
Obsessive compulsive disorder linked to brain activity
16 July 2008Cambridge researchers have discovered that measuring activity in a region of the brain could help to identify people at risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder...
Brain switch clues to drug addiction
15 July 2008In the quest to find the biological route of drug addiction, research at Cambridge University is revealing what makes some people more vulnerable than others.