Prenatal origins of heart disease
04 January 2009Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
The new geography of personality
01 January 2009Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.
Engaging with Inuit communities
01 January 2009At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...
New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease
01 January 2009The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.
A novel way to model endometriosis
01 January 2009A recently patented invention holds promise for understanding a debilitating disease that affects two million women in the UK.
New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis
01 January 2009Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.
Fashioning the value chain
01 January 2009Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.
Freeze Frame: through the eyes of the polar explorers
01 January 2009An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.
Portus Project: bringing to life Trajan’s legacy
01 January 2009Excavation and geophysical survey are uncovering the secrets of an exceptionally diverse Imperial Roman landscape.
The Large Hadron Collider: entering uncharted territory
01 January 2009The world's most expensive scientific instrument will be ready for full experiments in 2009; Andy Parker describes Cambridge's role in constructing and using the machine...