Innovation

Nanobots that patrol our bodies, killer immune cells hunting and destroying cancer cells, biological scissors that cut out defective genes: these are...

Cambridge start-up Simprints, awarded $2.45 million in new grant money, targets the developing world with fingerprinting technology to help deliver...

A new diagnostic test developed from research at the Universities of Cambridge and Dundee has been launched with the aim of helping eliminate the...

In this piece for The Conversation , Carlos López-Gómez from Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing, discusses the role that small and medium-sized...

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

The stirrings of a revolution are starting to ripple through hundreds of laboratories. It’s a revolution that aims to result in new medicines –...

Is the knowledge and scholarship that universities produce relevant to the problems the world faces? In a new essay co-authored with an international...

Are strict IP policies harming the development of sustainable technologies? In this article for The Conversation , Frank Tietze from the Institute...