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Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital

The hospital that will change the story of cancer forever

15 July 2024

Work will begin soon on a new hospital that will transform how we diagnose and treat cancer. Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will treat patients across the East of England, but the research that takes place there promises to change the lives of cancer patients across the UK and beyond.

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Accelerating melt rate makes Greenland Ice Sheet world’s largest ‘dam’

21 Feb 2022

The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower.

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Planning for action

17 Feb 2022

Free online tools built by Cambridge researchers are helping planners design exercise into our towns and cities.

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Musical preferences unite personalities across the globe

10 Feb 2022

Research involving more than 350,000 participants from six continents has found that links between musical preferences and personality are universal...

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Apprenticeships are for everyone

07 Feb 2022

In National Apprenticeship Week, we ask some of our 127 apprentices what it’s like to study while you work.

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Training a new breed of clinical triallist

03 Feb 2022

Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, working with AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists who can work out at an earlier stage of...

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Fighting for the rights of football fans

02 Feb 2022

How a Cambridge researcher fought for the rights of football fans and won.

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The five women featured in the story

The women helping to change the story of ovarian cancer

24 Jan 2022

Every patient with cancer has a story to tell of their journey through diagnosis and treatment. We meet a group of women who are at the centre of...

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Raise the floor: education that works for everyone

24 Jan 2022

The evidence that convinced the international community that putting disadvantaged children first creates education systems that work for everyone.

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Change with purpose

21 Jan 2022

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations, Professor Andy Neely, on why universities need to work with business partners, the...

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The life-changing artificial pancreas

20 Jan 2022

An artificial pancreas developed by Cambridge researchers is helping protect very young children with type 1 diabetes at a vulnerable time of their...

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Not so 'swinging sixties' revealed by study of UK's first sexual health clinics

20 Jan 2022

Young people behaving responsibly in the 1960s helped to defeat fierce opposition to the UK’s first sexual health clinics, the Brook Advisory Centres...

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Samurai, Darwin, the Poet Laureate and some very Curious Cures

13 Jan 2022

A year of wonder in store at Cambridge University Library during 2022.

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