New route to evolution: how DNA from our mitochondria gets into our genomes
05 October 2022Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria – the ‘batteries’ that power our cells...
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Scientists have shown that in one in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from our mitochondria – the ‘batteries’ that power our cells...
Experts are calling on the Government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.
What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner...
A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-related death and...
Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking...
An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of...
The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge and...
Cambridge’s leadership in knowledge exchange has been recognised in the Knowledge Exchange Framework 2 (KEF2) results, published by Research England on 27 September 2022.
Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs – the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops – and found...