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23 Oct 2020: The drug discovery company, Astex Pharmaceuticals, has been acquired by the Japanese firm Otsuka Pharmaceutical. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Devitrite was considered a ‘trouble maker’ in early 20th century glass manufacture and, once identified, its functional properties were never studied.

23 Oct 2020: Dr Ulrich Keyser of the University’s Cavendish Laboratory for use in DNA sequencing, protein sensing and other applications. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Cambridge Enterprise, the University’s commercialisation group, has recently announced its year-end results. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: A possible new method for treating pancreatic cancer, enabling the body’s immune system to attack and kill cancer cells, has been developed by researchers.

23 Oct 2020: PneumaCare, founded in 2008, has developed a non-invasive technology for monitoring lung function, known as PneumaScan. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: ERBA Diagnostics Mannheim GmbH announced it has completed the acquisition of Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products. Read more.

23 Oct 2020: Mike Fister has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of Enecsys. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Tony Raven has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation arm. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: CASTEP is a software product which allows researchers to determine what the most stable structure of a new material would be. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: A new strategy for recycling elements of nuclear waste has been devised by University of Cambridge researchers. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: This course is designed to help University staff understand potential problems associated with expert witness work and how to avoid them. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Researchers from the UK and Spain have identified an eco-friendly solid that could replace the inefficient and polluting gases used in most refrigerators and air conditioners. Cambridge Enterprise is working to bring it to market.

23 Oct 2020: University of Cambridge spin-out X01 Limited, a company founded to develop the anti-thrombin antibody ichorcumab, has been acquired by Janssen. Read more.

23 Oct 2020: Quethera Ltd, a gene therapy company based at the Babraham Research Campus, has obtained a grant from the Wellcome Trust Pathfinder Award Scheme.

23 Oct 2020: Louise Allen won an innovation competition and was recognised in the MedTech category for ‘KidzEyez’, a novel visual field analyser for young children.

23 Oct 2020: A new method of generating mature nerve cells from skin cells could greatly enhance understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Although Alemtuzumab, now known as Lemtrada, faces an uncertain future in the United States, it has been one of the University’s biggest success stories over the past two decades.

23 Oct 2020: The programme aims to assist Colombia as it transitions from a resource-based economy to one based on science, innovation and entrepreneurship. Read more.

18 Dec 2020: The Postdoc Business Plan Competition has been won by GlycoVue, which is pioneering a solution for diabetes self-management.

23 Oct 2020: A new technology that can safely deliver friendly bacteria to the gut is under development by an academic–industry collaboration as an oral vaccine.

23 Oct 2020: Many of Cambridge’s young companies and established success stories took part in yesterday’s visit, including ARM, Cambridge Temperature Concepts, Horizon Discovery, Ubisense, BlueGnome, RealVNC and Raspberry Pi.

23 Oct 2020: In China, an ever-growing middle class with ever-growing income levels is determined to ensure their children receive the best teaching. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Lumora, a provider of state-of-the-art molecular diagnostic products has sold its proprietary nucleic acid Heat Elution purification technology to Roche.

23 Oct 2020: The seminar was organised by Cambridge Enterprise in partnership with Inova and highlighted our strong links with Brazil. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: A reduction in the trade deficit by £20bn could be created over the next ten years, as manufacturing firms end the outsourcing of production to Asia.

23 Oct 2020: University of Cambridge spin-out Eight19 has begun trials of fully printed plastic solar modules in Africa. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: The Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Imperial, Oxford, Manchester and UCL have collaborated to produce a briefing paper.

23 Oct 2020: CamGaN was formed in 2010 to commercialise a novel technology for the cost-effective manufacture of key components of HB-LEDs. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: The process for recycling automobile batteries was developed by Dr R Vasant Kumar and his colleagues at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

23 Oct 2020: IndiGo is a pay-as-you-go, personal solar power electricity system. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Cambridge Enterprise has made its third investment in Enval, which was spun-out from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in 2005.

23 Oct 2020: Revolutionary treatments are being developed in Cambridge labs at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC), the UK’s first open innovation bioscience campus.

23 Oct 2020: The trial involved a careful regime of feeding chocolate containing peanut flour in gradually increasing doses to patients with severe peanut allergies.

23 Oct 2020: The Sentinel Oncology project will focus on the development of small molecule CHK1 inhibitors for the treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Read more.

23 Oct 2020: Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that enables the identification of molecules for many potential applications. Read more.

23 Oct 2020: X01 Ltd has raised $11 million in funding to develop a new anticoagulant drug which has the potential to save millions of lives.

23 Oct 2020: The research has found that a series of movements in the egg can be used to predict which embryos have the best chance of survival. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Anne joined the Seed Funds team as Access to Capital and Investment Manager at the start of 2008 and has now been appointed as head of Seed Funds.

23 Oct 2020: Legendary explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is the speaker for the first Enterprise Tuesday talk of Lent Term. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Professor Stephen Toope, VC of the University of Cambridge, today signed an agreement to formalise a strategic partnership with the Nanjing Municipal Government, creating the Cambridge University-Nanjing Centre of Technology and Innovation.

23 Oct 2020: University of Cambridge spin-out Breathing Buildings has been recognised as one of ten companies driving change in the energy sector. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: Undo Software was founded by programmers Greg Law and Julian Smith out of frustration with the lack of a good debugging tool for Linux. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: The Breathing Buildings CEO joins the Academy from diverse backgrounds, including leading engineering and manufacturing companies. Read more here.

23 Oct 2020: FlexEnable, the flexible organic electronics company, is showcasing a full colour, conformable organic LCD (OLCD) at Mobile World Congress 2016. Read more.

23 Oct 2020: Granta Design has launched GRANTA MI, developed in collaboration with industry leaders such as Boeing, Honeywell, NASA, Rolls-Royce, and TRW Automotive.

23 Oct 2020: At the Cambridge News and Cambridge Business magazine Business Excellence Awards, Aveva, which was spun-out of the University in the 1960s and is now a billion-pound business, was named

25 Nov 2020: Cambridge Enterprise has begun work with the Lebanese American University, to build an expert framework for developing its intellectual property.

23 Oct 2020: Microbiotica, a Cambridge Innovation Capital portfolio company, has entered into a multi-year strategic collaboration with Genentech worth up to $534 million. The companies will work together to discover, develop and commercialise biomarkers,

23 Oct 2020: The Cleantech list is a three year-old joint venture between the Guardian and the Cleantech Group. Read more here.