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Cambridge researchers have played a vital role in the fight back against COVID-19, from the use of genomics to track its spread and mathematic modelling to understand infection rates through to innovative screening programmes to keep its students and staff safe.

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Underactive immune response may explain obesity link to COVID-19 severity

20 March 2023

Individuals who are obese may be more susceptible to severe COVID-19 because of a poorer inflammatory immune response, say Cambridge scientists.

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Opinion: the learning of scientific advisers is the other curve to consider

05 Jun 2020

Policymakers around the world are relying on the expertise of scientists to help make decisions around the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do scientists...

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Tackling COVID-19: Dr Sarah Caddy

04 Jun 2020

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Sarah Caddy was conducting research on a number of different viruses. “I was looking at how antibodies can neutralise...

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Harnessing AI in the fight against COVID-19

04 Jun 2020

AI assisted COVID-19 diagnostic and prognostic tool could improve resource allocation and patient outcomes.

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Research nurse from the NIHR Clinical Research Facility processing patient samples using SAMBA machines at Adden brooke’s Hospital in Cambridge

Rapid coronavirus test speeds up access to urgent care and will free up beds ahead of winter

03 Jun 2020

Researchers say faster tests helped expedite access to life-saving treatments such as organ transplants – and might make all the difference later...

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Found in translation

03 Jun 2020

How Cambridge researcher Dr Ebele Mogo helped tackle a coronavirus public health language gap across Africa in four weeks and 18 languages with 30...

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Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'

03 Jun 2020

Take extra care before buying face masks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK Government or the NHS...

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COVID-19 green recovery package – an important and cheap component

02 Jun 2020

The UK should increase its targeted public R&D investments to facilitate a sustainable recovery, writes Prof Laura Diaz Anadon for Cambridge Zero.

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COVID-19 and agriculture: the coming contradictory hunger pandemic

02 Jun 2020

Supermarkets ration produce while some farmers are forced to destroy harvests. Felix Anderl from the Centre for Global Knowledge Studies at CRASSH...

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To navigate pandemic trade-offs, policymakers need syntheses

02 Jun 2020

Prof Diane Coyle calls for researchers to “break the shackles” of disciplines to build a post-pandemic social order in the journal Nature.

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Finding a way out of lockdown

29 May 2020

Cambridge’s soft matter physicists swop molecules for infectious people in their modelling to investigate safe routes out of quarantine.

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James Wood enjoying amazing freshly roasted Ethiopian coffee in a traditional coffee house in Sebeta, during a field trip prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

Tackling COVID-19: Professor James Wood

28 May 2020

“Cambridge’s infectious diseases community is making a huge contribution to tackling the pandemic,” says Professor James Wood. He leads several large...

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Social distancing: how close is safe?

27 May 2020

How fluid dynamics can help define distancing and ventilation in the age of COVID-19 through the mathematics of “exhale and inhale breaths”.

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