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New technologies and strong academic-industry partnerships have the potential to change the face of therapeutic medicine.

Artist's impression of a nanobot

How to train your drugs: from nanotherapeutics to nanobots

23 Jun 2017

Nanotechnology is creating new opportunities for fighting disease – from delivering drugs in smart packaging to nanobots powered by the world’s...

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Brain showing hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (plaques in blue)

Computer-designed antibodies target toxins associated with Alzheimer’s disease

22 Jun 2017

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have designed antibodies that target the protein deposits in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease...

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The bug hunters and the microbiome

21 Jun 2017

Trevor Lawley and Gordon Dougan are bug hunters, albeit not the conventional kind. The bugs they collect are invisible to the naked eye. And even...

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Patching up a broken heart

16 Jun 2017

It is almost impossible for an injured heart to fully mend itself. Within minutes of being deprived of oxygen – as happens during a heart attack when...

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Cambridge start-up raises £40 million in funding to develop new cancer treatments

16 Jun 2017

Cambridge-based start-up company Bicycle Therapeutics has recently raised £40 million from a range of investors to bring its cancer drug candidates...

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Future therapeutics: the hundred-year horizon scan

13 Jun 2017

How will precision medicine define 21st-century therapeutics? What will future healthcare look like? And what actually lies ‘beyond the pill’...

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Older woman profile

Opinion: How epigenetics may help us slow down the ageing clock

12 May 2017

Why do we age when we get older? Epigenetics may hold the answer – but could it one day help us turn back the clock? Professor Wolf Reik from the...

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Cambridge spin-out raises £7 million to develop treatments for lung disease

04 May 2017

A University of Cambridge spin-out company has raised £7 million in new funding, which will help in the development of treatments for liver and lung...

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Scientists discover two repurposed drugs that arrest neurodegeneration in mice

20 Apr 2017

A team of scientists who a few years ago identified a major pathway that leads to brain cell death in mice, have now found two drugs that block the...

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Human Genome mannequin

Algorithm matches genetic variation to disease symptoms and could improve diagnosis of rare diseases

19 Apr 2017

A faster and more accurate method of identifying which of an individual’s genes are associated with particular symptoms has been developed by a team...

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New stem cell method produces millions of human brain and muscle cells in days

23 Mar 2017

Scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have created a new technique that simplifies the production of...

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Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences aims to create world-leading industry-academia collaborations

09 Mar 2017

The Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS), a new initiative that aims to establish a world-leading platform for collaboration between...

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