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Accelerating how new drugs are made with machine learning |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/accelerating-how-new-drugs-are-made-with-machine-learning15 Jan 2024: Predicting how molecules will react is vital for the discovery and manufacture of new pharmaceuticals, but historically this has been a trial-and-error
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Cracking the great cuckoo cover-up
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/drongos-versus-cuckoos26 Jul 2023: The team could then test what differences in colour and pattern between the foreign egg and the drongo’s own eggs best predicted whether or not the drongo parents were tricked.
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One in two children with ADHD experience emotional problems, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-in-two-children-with-adhd-experience-emotional-problems-study-finds22 May 2024: In research published in Nature Mental Health, the team found that as many as one in two children with ADHD show signs of emotional dysregulation, and that
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The big question - Cambridge University team joins ALPHA hunt for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-dark-matter-ALPHA-experiment7 Feb 2024: Compared to the enormous underground cavern sites needed to test for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), another compelling candidate for dark matter, the ALPHA equipment needed to test for axions will
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Robots cause company profits to fall – at least at first | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/robots-cause-company-profits-to-fall-at-least-at-first3 Aug 2023: The research was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which are both part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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Ageing: can we add more life to our years?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/reverse-age-and-extend-health20 Dec 2023: She’s learned a lot from experiments in test tubes and now wants to see how the process works inside body cells, where many other things are happening in tandem.
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Scientists identify how fasting may protect against inflammation |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-how-fasting-may-protect-against-inflammation30 Jan 2024: In research published in Cell Reports, the team describes how fasting raises levels of a chemical in the blood known as arachidonic acid, which inhibits
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From ground-breaking research in Nigeria to using novel tools to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-202312 Dec 2023: have the potential to create significant economic, social and cultural impact from, and engagement with and for, research.
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Religious people coped better with Covid-19 pandemic, research…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/religious-people-coped-better-with-covid-19-pandemic-research-suggests30 Jan 2024: The study was conducted during February and March 2021, and involved 5,178 people right across the United States, with findings published in the journal European Economic Review in November 2023. ... Cambridge’s Faculty of Economics.
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Marking International Women’s Day at the Cambridge Festival
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-international-womens-day8 Mar 2024: In Seeing the mess: Gender, housework and perception (21 March, 3pm) we question why do women continue to shoulder a disproportionate amount of housework and childcare despite economic and cultural gains?
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Black British Voices: the findings
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-british-voices-report28 Sep 2023: The report argues that, for some, racial disparities in pay and pensions – combined with class hierarchies – create a “fatalism” about economic fairness.
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Scientists identify genes linked to DNA damage and human disease |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-genes-linked-to-dna-damage-and-human-disease16 Feb 2024: The work, published in Nature, provides insights into cancer progression and neurodegenerative diseases as well as a potential therapeutic avenue in the form
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Journeys of discovery: Christine Holt on how our brains wire-up
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/wiring-the-brain-christine-holt18 Oct 2023: But no-one thought it would work. In the end Doug Campbell, my PhD student, did the test one evening in 2001 “just so that I’d stop mentioning it”, as ... Two other postdocs, Hosung Jung and Toshiaki Shigeoka, developed a mouse model to test this
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AI-driven techniques reveal new targets for drug discovery |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-driven-techniques-reveal-new-targets-for-drug-discovery27 Sep 2023: The research team, led by the University of Cambridge, presented an approach to identify therapeutic targets for human diseases associated with a phenomenon
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Cambridge academic named backup astronaut on NASA's historic…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/jenni-gibbons-artemis-mission-moon6 Dec 2023: has been a test bed for technological development – it's this wonderful international partnership 400km above the Earth. ... Credit: NASA. Essentially flying a test mission ahead of the Artemis III moon landing – which will put the first woman and
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Tristan Dot
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/tristan-dot13 Mar 2024: By quantifying what would be normal or abnormal in a specific behaviour, they create new self-fulfilling norms based on opaque processes and economic/political objectives.
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‘Bouncing’ comets could deliver building blocks for life to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bouncing-comets-could-deliver-building-blocks-for-life-to-exoplanets15 Nov 2023: We wanted to test our theories on planets that are similar to our own, as Earth is currently our only example of a planet that supports life,” said Anslow. ... It’s exciting that we can start identifying the type of systems we can use to test
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/george-the-poet25 Mar 2024: George is currently doing a PhD at UCL'S Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on the socio-economic potential of black music.
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Getting maximum calories in shortest time is the priority for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/getting-maximum-calories-in-shortest-time-is-the-priority-for-bumblebees24 Oct 2023: Individual bumblebees were given one of three tests. In the first test, the nectar on both vertical and horizontal artificial flowers had the same amount of sugar, and the bumblebees made ... In the third test, the vertical flowers offered nectar which
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Anna Moore
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/anna-moore26 Mar 2024: In the future we’ll be able to identify illnesses early, avoid unnecessary medical tests and help people access treatment and support sooner.
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Reclaim ‘wellness’ from the rich and famous, and restore its…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reclaim-wellness-from-the-rich-and-famous-and-restore-its-political-radicalism-new-book-argues28 Mar 2024: It’s an over-worked comparison that tends to say more about our own social problems, our own contemporary culture of overlapping political, social and economic crises. ... to be well, it’s your fault, a view that neglects to consider all kinds of
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Institute for Technology and Humanity: Ensuring technology benefits…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/institute-technology-humanity-launch21 Nov 2023: In fact, one potential project for Connelly involves using machine learning to build and explore a database of declassified documents to test the “mosaic theory”: whether millions of tiny pieces can
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Largest ever genetic study of age of puberty in girls shows links…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/largest-ever-genetic-study-of-age-of-puberty-in-girls-shows-links-with-weight-gain1 Jul 2024: In the largest study of its kind to date, an international team led by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, University of
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Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/training-ai-models-to-answer-what-if-questions-could-improve-medical-treatments19 Apr 2024: Artificial intelligence techniques can be helpful for multiple medical applications, such as radiology or oncology, where the ability to recognise patterns in
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Beyond the nuclear family
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/real-families-fitzwilliam-exhibition5 Oct 2023: Golombok believes that while family structures may not change as drastically as they did in the last half-century, the challenges they face are becoming increasingly socio-economic and political.
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New trial of 'pill-on-a-thread' brings screening for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-trial-of-pill-on-a-thread-brings-screening-for-oesophageal-cancer-closer9 Jan 2024: It will look at whether the capsule sponge test could replace endoscopies to monitor their condition. ... The test takes just 10 minutes and can be done in a GP surgery.
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The Mastercard class of '23
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Mastercard-Foundation-class-of-20233 Aug 2023: Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe is from Nigeria. He's looking at global health care with a particular focus on the social and economic determinants of health.
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Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-mutation-in-a-quarter-of-all-labradors-hard-wires-them-for-obesity6 Mar 2024: In the study, 87 adult pet Labrador dogs - all a healthy weight or moderately overweight - took part in several tests including the ‘sausage in a box’ test.
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-speaker-spotlight-david-spiegelhalter16 Feb 2024: Ahmed, former BBC economics editor and editor-in-chief of the News Movement, in Misinformation, statistics and lies about the manipulation of statistics in an era of misinformation and how we
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Stealth swimmers: fish hide behind others to hunt | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/stealth-swimmers-the-fish-that-hide-behind-others-to-hunt7 Aug 2023: Doing manipulative experiments in the wild like this allows us to test the ecological relevance of these behaviours,” said Professor Andy Radford in the University of Bristol’s School of Biological
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Scottish rocks to play a key role in Mars space mission | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scottish-rocks-to-play-a-key-role-in-mars-space-mission28 Jul 2023: to test and refine the analytical techniques they will be using to investigate material returned from the Red Planet.”.
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Inclusion, innovation... and cocktail curation
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/inclusion-innovation-and-cocktail-creation22 Aug 2023: I was part of a new business unit selling reagents to companies that are running diagnostic tests.
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Cambridge research receives £5 million boost for ‘world-leading’…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-research-receives-ps5-million-boost-for-world-leading-cardiovascular-research28 May 2024: Identify new markers and disease targets for a wide range of cardiovascular diseases, and test new drugs in clinical trials.
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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Clive Boddy
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/clive-boddy-20244 Mar 2024: global socio-economic and environmental systems.
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Clinicians rank patient views as least important in diagnosis, study…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/clinicians-rank-patient-views-as-least-important-in-diagnosis-study-finds18 Dec 2023: This is particularly important when diagnostic tests in neuropsychiatric lupus are widely known to be “unenlightening”, according to one neurologist, in common with many other autoimmune diseases and long Covid. ... But combining and valuing both
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Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, study …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-universal-musical-harmonies-study-finds27 Feb 2024: Harrison and his collaborators are exploring different kinds of instruments and follow-up studies to test a broader range of cultures.
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New open-source platform allows users to evaluate performance of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-open-source-platform-allows-users-to-evaluate-performance-of-ai-powered-chatbots4 Jun 2024: A team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and cognitive scientists, led by the University of Cambridge, developed an open-source evaluation
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The life robotic: Meet the Cambridge University researchers fostering …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Cambridge-roboticists-wellbeing-support-robot-coaches19 Jul 2023: Research at the Lab - in the University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology – suggests that children who might have wellbeing-related concerns, might view robots administering mental health tests as
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How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/how-sure-is-sure-incorporating-human-error-into-machine-learning10 Aug 2023: Human error and uncertainty are concepts that many artificial intelligence systems fail to grasp, particularly in systems where a human provides feedback to a
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TB vaccine may enable elimination of the disease in cattle by…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tb-vaccine-may-enable-elimination-of-the-disease-in-cattle-by-reducing-its-spread28 Mar 2024: He added: “This approach is unimplementable in many parts of the world for economic and social reasons, resulting in considerable animal suffering and economic losses from lost productivity, alongside an increased ... countries, the United Kingdom,
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School uniform policies linked to students getting less exercise,…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/school-uniform-policies-linked-to-students-getting-less-exercise-study-finds15 Feb 2024: The University of Cambridge study used data about the physical activity participation of more than a million five-to-17-year-olds internationally. It found
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Love lost and found
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/french-love-letters-confiscated-by-britain-read-after-265-years7 Nov 2023: While their men were gone, women ran the household economy and took crucial economic and political decisions.”.
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Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/call-for-safeguards-to-prevent-unwanted-hauntings-by-ai-chatbots-of-dead-loved-ones9 May 2024: Artificial intelligence that allows users to hold text and voice conversations with lost loved ones runs the risk of causing psychological harm and even
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Imperceptible sensors made from ‘electronic spider silk’ can be…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/imperceptible-sensors-made-from-electronic-spider-silk-can-be-printed-directly-on-human-skin24 May 2024: Tests of the fibres printed onto a human finger suggest they could be used as continuous health monitors. ... Tests of the bioelectronic fibres, on surfaces including human fingers and dandelion seedheads, showed that they provided high-quality sensor
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No evidence that England’s new ‘biodiversity boost’ planning policy…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/no-evidence-that-englands-new-biodiversity-boost-planning-policy-will-help-birds-or-butterflies28 Jun 2024: From 2024, the UK’s Environment Act requires planning applications to demonstrate an overall biodiversity net gain of at least 10% as calculated using a new
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Discovery of ‘new rules of the immune system’ could improve treatment …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/discovery-of-new-rules-of-the-immune-system-could-improve-treatment-of-inflammatory-diseases-say18 Jun 2024: The researchers are now fundraising to set up a spin-out company, with the aim of running clinical trials to test their findings in humans within the next few years. ... Tests, in mice, of a drug developed by the researchers showed that regulatory T
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Thousands of pregnancies tracked in UK’s biggest study on…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/thousands-of-pregnancies-tracked-in-uks-biggest-study-on-pre-eclampsia19 Jul 2023: Participation will involve monitoring alongside regular pregnancy checks and tests.
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Cambridge spin-out’s sportscar prototype takes ultra-fast charging…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-spin-outs-sportscar-prototype-takes-ultra-fast-charging-out-of-the-lab-and-onto-the-road1 Jul 2024: Tests of the first running Nyobolt EV prototype will be used to validate the company’s battery performance in a high-performance environment.
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£11m semiconductor research centre could be key player in UK’s net…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ps11m-semiconductor-research-centre-could-be-key-player-in-uks-net-zero-mission13 Feb 2024: Semiconductors, also known as microchips, are a key component in nearly every electrical device from mobile phones and medical equipment to electric vehicles.
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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/community-open-map-platform-project-supporting-green-transition-secures-major-funding4 Sep 2023: Flora Samuel. Despite changes to the HM Treasury Green Book to encourage forms of valuation other than economic, local authorities are struggling to capture social, environmental and cultural value in a ... The aim of this pragmatic project is to create
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