Smart testing for smart drugs
04 January 2010Can better decisions be made about which anticancer drugs to progress to clinical trials?
Cambridge Cancer Centre: the vision
04 January 2010Professor Sir Bruce Ponder describes the vision of a Cambridge-wide initiative to link world-class cancer research to improved patient care.
Data mining the complex cancer landscape
04 January 2010Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.
Understanding how cancer cells grow
04 January 2010Cambridge scientists are asking what role stem cells play in how cancer develops, spreads and relapses.
Strategic research partnership drives materials science research and training
01 January 2010Rolls-Royce and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will work jointly with the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Swansea in a new £50 million...
A new model for industrial–academic partnership
01 January 2010PneumaCare, the first company to receive funding from the University of Cambridge Discovery Fund, is a new model for utilising academic expertise.
Beacons of life and death: chromatin and cancer
01 January 2010A new generation of cancer therapeutics is on the horizon thanks to fresh light being shed on how genes are switched on and off.
Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa
01 January 2010Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000...
Famine’s changing face
01 January 2010Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...