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.
Beyond the pandemic: re-design our public health system
09 December 2020COVID-19 has highlighted debilitating flaws in England’s public health systems decades in the making. Carol Brayne and John Clarkson from Cambridge Public Health, a new...
11 hip-hop artists who had something to say about mental health
09 December 2020How hip hop artists are opening up about their struggles with depression and anxiety, helping reduce stigma and encouraging others to seek support.
Hidden symmetry could be key to more robust quantum systems, researchers find
09 December 2020Researchers have found a way to protect highly fragile quantum systems from noise, which could aid in the design and development of new quantum devices,...
Significant increase in depression seen among children during first lockdown
08 December 2020The first lockdown led to a significant increase in symptoms of depression among children, highlighting the unintended consequences of school closures, according to a new...
Architecting the future
08 December 2020Arm is working with Cambridge researchers to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution.
Open-source toolkit helps developing countries meet demand for COVID-19 research and diagnostics
08 December 2020Researchers have developed a free, open-source toolkit that allows laboratories in developing countries to produce their own tools for COVID-19 research and diagnosis, without relying...
Gut research identifies key cellular changes associated with childhood-onset Crohn’s Disease
07 December 2020Scientists have tracked the very early stages of human foetal gut development in incredible detail, and found specific cell functions that appear to be reactivated in the...