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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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Unexpected experiences: Toni Fola-Alade talks about studying for finals during a pandemic

17 Sep 2020

Final-year student Toni Fola-Alade had a plan: secure investment for his startup, focus on his exams and enjoy his final term as a student. Then...

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Extent of India’s COVID nudge campaign revealed

17 Sep 2020

The Government of India’s use of nudge theory in the first three months of the pandemic helped to tackle the virus on numerous fronts, a new study...

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Syrian refugee health workers can help Europe cope with COVID-19

16 Sep 2020

Employing displaced Syrian healthcare workers is a 'win-win' for both host communities and refugees as it would strengthen national health services...

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Cambridge helps launch £10m Trinity Challenge to protect the world against future pandemics

14 Sep 2020

The University of Cambridge has joined a coalition of some of the world’s leading businesses and academic and tech institutions to launch The Trinity...

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COVID-19: What to expect from a vaccine

11 Sep 2020

Vaccine expert Professor Gordon Dougan looks at the challenges of developing and delivering a vaccine against COVID-19.

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Deflated balloons representing punctured lung after COVID-19 infection

Punctured lung affects almost one in a hundred hospitalised COVID-19 patients

10 Sep 2020

As many as one in 100 patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 develop a pneumothorax – a ‘punctured lung’ – according to a study led by Cambridge...

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Cambridge University to provide weekly coronavirus testing for students resident in colleges

09 Sep 2020

The University of Cambridge is to offer all students living in college accommodation a weekly test for infection with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus...

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Beyond the pandemic: find better ways to talk about death

08 Sep 2020

COVID-19 has forced millions of people to confront the prospect of dying earlier than they expected and under extraordinary circumstances. Now more...

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“Behind every COVID-19 test sample is a person worried about their results”

04 Sep 2020

Meet the volunteer scientists who turn swab samples into diagnoses – again and again and again.

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The Facebook post that launched a thousand shields (and counting)

03 Sep 2020

Cambridge researchers are supporting a project to 3D-print face shields and face masks in Malawi. The work is helping them create a 'blueprint' for...

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Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients

02 Sep 2020

A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers...

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Sheffield's Women of Steel - COVID-19: We can beat this

Cambridge to lead national consortium examining immune response to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

28 Aug 2020

The University of Cambridge and Royal Papworth Hospital have secured £1.5million of funding as part of the national effort by UK immunologists to...

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