Could a vaccine protect us against heart attacks?
20 May 2021Professor Ziad Mallat and his team have been shortlisted for a £30 million grant from the British Heart Foundation. If successful, atherosclerosis – hardening of...
These birds will soon go extinct. But their disappearance need not be in vain.
19 May 2021The White-tailed Swallow and Ethiopian Bush-crow are living in ‘climatic lifeboats’ with their tiny ranges restricted on all sides by temperature and rainfall patterns. Even under moderate...
Cambridge researchers awarded the Millennium Technology Prize
18 May 2021British duo Professor Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor David Klenerman have been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary DNA sequencing techniques.
Journeys of discovery: rapid genome sequencing
18 May 2021David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian talk about their discovery of a revolutionary DNA sequencing technology – and the global impact that continues to surprise them.
A strange kind of intimacy: executive education in a pandemic and beyond
18 May 2021You don't have to get a place at Cambridge to study here. The University also provides executive education and lifelong learning to lots of different...
Mothers can influence offspring’s height, lifespan and disease risk in unexpected ways – through their mitochondria
17 May 2021Mitochondria - the ‘batteries’ that power our cells – play an unexpected role in common diseases such as type 2 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, concludes...
Climate Exp0 – International climate conference being hosted by UK universities ahead of COP26
17 May 2021Weeklong conference brings together leading scientists, government ministers and experts from around the world to set the agenda ahead of the United Nations Climate Change...
Wireless limb control
17 May 2021Researchers in Cambridge’s Bioelectronics Lab are developing implantable devices to bypass nerve damage and restore movement to paralysed limbs.
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
14 May 2021Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties ever taken on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Their findings will be...
Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
13 May 2021Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and combat malnutrition in the face of climate change, environmental degradation and...