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How research partnerships are offering innovative approaches to make the most of the East of England’s assets and tackle its more pressing challenges.

How to tend an economic bonfire

01 Mar 2019

Business, enterprise and employment are flourishing in Greater Cambridge, but housing and infrastructure are struggling to match the jobs boom, and...

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Cambridge University research and the East of England

01 Mar 2019

As we begin a month-long focus on research and outreach activities carried out by Cambridge University across the East of England, our Vice-...

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Automated phone calls may help patients to take medicines as prescribed, pilot study suggests

07 Jan 2019

Remembering to take medication is vital for managing long term health conditions such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, or multiple conditions...

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Cambridge receives £100 million for major new children’s hospital

10 Dec 2018

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, has announced up to £100 million of public capital for an innovative children’s...

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Releasing the imagination: the University of Cambridge Primary School

02 Nov 2018

More than just an outstanding Ofsted rating sets the University of Cambridge Primary School apart: it places research at its heart, informing...

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The skeleton of the teenage girl, and the remnants of her burial, as discovered by Cambridge University archaeologists in 2011.

Trumpington Cross goes on display for the first time

01 Feb 2018

Extremely rare, early Christian gold cross, gifted to Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

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The social enterprise greenhouse that helps businesses bloom

30 Oct 2017

When it comes to starting social enterprises, Paul Tracey and Neil Stott would love "to see a thousand flowers bloom". But doing good for society isn...

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Cattle grazing in the River Ouse water meadows south of Ely

Casting light on the dark ages: Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined

21 Jul 2017

What was life in the fens like in the period known as the dark ages? Archaeologist Susan Oosthuizen revisits the history of an iconic wetland in the...

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Canola crop with wheat crop in background at Wallandbeen, NSW.

Major funding for new crop sciences research centre that will be ‘centrepiece’ of industrial collaboration

10 Jul 2017

Over £30m has been announced for a new Cambridge Centre for Crop Science that will focus on linking with farming and food industries to translate...

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Brexit: people are angry but looking for compromise, research finds

22 May 2017

Researchers engaged with people across the East of England and found anxiety and resentment, as well as a broad consensus that the UK should remain...

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A University of Cambridge outreach session in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

Widening participation in higher education in East Anglia

08 Dec 2016

From January 2017, East Anglia’s five Higher Education Institutions, working in close partnership with the region’s Further Education Colleges and...

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Shake Shack burger and fries

Inability to safely store fat increases risk of diabetes and heart disease

14 Nov 2016

A large-scale genetic study has provided strong evidence that the development of insulin resistance – a risk factor for type 2 diabetes and heart...

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