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The application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

Polymer Opals

Squeezing out opal-like colours by the mile

03 Jun 2016

Researchers have devised a new method for stacking microscopic marbles into regular layers, producing intriguing materials which scatter light into...

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Diabetes

Genetic approach could help identify side-effects at early stages of drug development

01 Jun 2016

An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials has been demonstrated by a collaboration...

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Ford Rouge Factory Tour

Unlocking innovation in the supply chain

26 Apr 2016

Jinchen Hou from the Institute for Manufacturing comments on how members of complex supply chains can form alliances, in order to unlock the...

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Making operating systems safer and faster with ‘unikernels’

28 Jan 2016

Technology to improve the security, speed and scale of data processing in age of the Internet of Things is being developed by a Cambridge spin-out...

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University of Cambridge breaks its early stage investment record for third consecutive year

27 Jan 2016

For the third consecutive year, the University of Cambridge has broken its early stage investment record, approving 13 seed fund investments for a...

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Innovation

Cambridge joins consortium to launch £40 million Apollo Therapeutics Fund

25 Jan 2016

Three global pharmaceutical companies and the technology transfer offices of three world-leading universities – Imperial College London, University...

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Bloom Energy Fuel Cell

Fuel cell electrolyte developed to offer cleaner, more efficient energy

20 Jan 2016

A new thin-film electrolyte material that helps solid oxide fuel cells operate more efficiently and cheaply than those composed of conventional...

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Raspberry Pi B+

Opinion: How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016

04 Jan 2016

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the frugal innovation revolution that is taking the world by storm.

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Structure of the MMP8 protein. Based on PyMOL rendering of PDB 1a85

Moonlighting molecules: finding new uses for old enzymes

26 Nov 2015

A collaboration between the University of Cambridge and MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, has led...

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Head-Up Display (HUD) projects key driving information onto a small area of the windscreen.

Heads up: Cambridge holographic technology adopted by Jaguar Land Rover

26 Nov 2015

A ‘head-up’ display for passenger vehicles developed at Cambridge, the first to incorporate holographic techniques, has been incorporated into Jaguar...

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£75 million investment for University's Cavendish Laboratory

25 Nov 2015

The Government has announced a £75 million investment in the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory as part of Wednesday's Spending Review...

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GSK/Cambridge Strategic Partnership aims to develop next wave of ‘game-changing’ medicines

23 Nov 2015

GSK, the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust today announce their Strategic Partnership, with the long-...

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