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Cambridge and India have well over 100 collaborations and partnerships, many forged over decades, others more recently.

Picture to educate people in villages that have no medical service about the spread of TB

A whole host of options

09 Oct 2015

Almost one in four of the world’s cases of tuberculosis (TB) are in India and the disease is constantly adapting itself to outwit our medicines...

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The European in India, 1813 by Charles D'Oyly (1781-1845)

A world of science

08 Oct 2015

The history of science has been centred for too long on the West, say Simon Schaffer and Sujit Sivasundaram. It’s time to think global.

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Increasing the efficiency of food supply chains can decrease wastage

Keeping the supply chain flowing

06 Oct 2015

In this age of rapid and escalating change, what can businesses do to flourish? Take a look at their supply chains, say researchers in the Centre for...

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Mid-19th-century map with a line linking Britain to India

Cambridge and India

05 Oct 2015

Cambridge’s engagement with India has evolved from scholars working on India to scholars working with , and increasingly, in India – on shared...

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Pilgrims at the Masjid al-Haram on Hajj in 2008

Package tour to Mecca? How the Hajj became an essential part of the British calendar

21 Sep 2015

This week, millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. A new study reveals how, in the age of Empire, the spiritual...

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Cambridge gets REAL about overcoming obstacles to global education

18 Jun 2015

The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre aims to promote education as an engine for sustainable development.

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influenza

Virus evolution and human behaviour shape global patterns of flu movement

08 Jun 2015

The global movement patterns of all four seasonal influenza viruses are illustrated in research published today in the journal Nature , providing a...

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Folio 13 verso, a representation of the goddess Prajñāpāramitā

The 1,000-year-old manuscript and the stories it tells

09 May 2015

One of the greatest treasures of Cambridge University Library is a Buddhist manuscript that was produced in Kathmandu exactly 1,000 years ago. The...

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This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a cluster of rod-shaped drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tuberculosis (TB). The artistic recreation was based upon scanning electron micrographic imagery.

Cambridge partners with India to fight multidrug resistant TB

13 Feb 2015

The University of Cambridge has been awarded £2 million from the UK Medical Research Council and the Government of India’s Department for...

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Agriculture is the backbone of India

New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers

17 Apr 2014

Latest statistical research finds strong causal links between areas with the most suicides and areas where impoverished farmers are trying to grow...

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Decline of Bronze Age ‘megacities’ linked to climate change

27 Feb 2014

Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.

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“Where you are going is more important than how fast you are going”

‘Light skin’ gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 Nov 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in “almost 100%” of Europeans - broadly conforms to many...

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