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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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The researcher finding inspiration for the planet’s future in Latin American art

23 Mar 2021

Joanna Page has been exploring how work by Latin American artists can help to bring humanity back into a relationship with nature and give us hope...

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Hunting for COVID-19 variants

22 Mar 2021

Professor Sharon Peacock explains the story behind the UK's world-leading SARS-CoV-2 genomics capability.

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Giving life to research

19 Mar 2021

A special online symposium will celebrate the archive of IVF pioneer, Sir Robert Edwards, and seek ways that this extraordinary archive can be used...

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Is Social Media Changing Your Life?

16 Mar 2021

Social media: lifeline, or source of mental health problems? With its effects still not fully understood, Cambridge researchers discuss the best...

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European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia

15 Mar 2021

Recent summer droughts in Europe are far more severe than anything in the past 2,100 years, according to a new study.

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Humans who search

12 Mar 2021

Stefanie Reichelt had long felt there was a disconnect between the public’s perception of scientists and reality. Armed with only a camera and a...

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Ghost Words: Reading the past

02 Mar 2021

A new exhibition from Cambridge University Library is set to bring to life the hidden words buried in some of our oldest manuscripts - known as...

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A silent epidemic of grief

01 Mar 2021

Major changes in bereavement care have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, amid a flood of demand for help from bereaved people, according to new...

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The neuroscientist who champions LGBT+ equal rights

26 Feb 2021

Duncan Astle is a neuroscientist on a mission to understand why the brains of some children develop differently to others – and how it affects not...

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HeLa: the cells that changed science

25 Feb 2021

Discover the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells enabled a scientific revolution and contributed to numerous...

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The cosmologist modelling the Universe with maths

18 Feb 2021

Dr Tobias Baldauf likes nothing better than seeing an equation ‘cross reality’. His work is helping us to answer some of the remaining questions...

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Cambridge researcher joins NASA science mission searching for signs of past life on Mars

18 Feb 2021

Professor Nicholas Tosca from the University of Cambridge is the only UK scientist selected by NASA to be part of the core science team for the Mars...

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