DIAL B for Boeing
18 November 2014Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and head of the Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory (DIAL) at the University's Institute of Manufacturing (IfM), and...
Molecular event mapping opens door to more tests “in silico”
18 November 2014Scientists report a new method for establishing whether chemical compounds are safe for human use without "in vivo" testing, based on so-called "molecular initiating events"...
Egg freezing: An empowering option for women?
17 November 2014Katie Hammond, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology researching the experience of egg donation in Canada, discusses the recent decision by tech giants...
University of Cambridge to establish two new Blood and Transplant Research Units
14 November 2014The University of Cambridge has received £7.9 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to fund Blood and Transplant Research Units. Each Unit...
Artificial muscle capable of ‘remembering’ movements developed
14 November 2014Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed artificial muscles which can learn and recall specific movements, the first time that motion control and memory...
Females protect offspring from infanticide by forcing males to compete through sperm instead of violence
13 November 2014Latest research shows the females of some mammal species will have many mates to ensure unclear paternity, so that males can’t resort to killing their...
New imaging method could improve the treatment of the 5 million asthma sufferers in the UK
13 November 2014A new method of observing exactly what happens to drug particles as they travel from an asthma inhaler to the lungs could lead to the...
The art of engineering: images from the frontiers of technology
12 November 2014From the kaleidoscopic swirl of a neural network, to ribbons of crystals unfolding like sheets of wrapping paper, to the relief on the faces of villagers...
Drugging the undruggable: discovery opens up possibility of slowing cancer spread
12 November 2014A trawl through a library of more than 50,000 ‘small molecules’ has identified a potential candidate to inhibit the spread of cancer cells throughout the...
Opportunity, and not necessity, is the mother of invention
12 November 2014When food is scarce, tool use among non-human primates does not increase. This counterintuitive finding leads researchers to suggest that the driving force behind tool...