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24 Jun 2012: A rare genetic disease which causes some parts of the body to grow excessively has been linked to a cancer-associated mutation that drives cell growth,

26 Oct 2012: This weekend at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is jam packed with events for people of all ages and most are free. Saturday is Family Day with huge array of

15 Oct 2012: Rangwala will argue that despite the fact that many of the countries that experienced popular revolution, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, are currently going through large-scale economic change and seeking external ... In fact, economic problems mean

15 Mar 2012: Leading international academics are advocating for new approaches to drug development for mental health diseases.  Their comment article, published today (15

11 May 2012: As well as their routine ultrasound scans at 12 and 20 weeks, the women have blood tests, and additional research scans at 28 and 36 weeks, and when they give birth ... If the results from POPS do identify ultrasound and biochemical markers that predict

20 Oct 2012: Finding a pulsar in orbit around a black hole will enable us to properly test Einstein’s gravitational theory.”.

25 May 2012: The range of disciplines covered includes behavioural science, neuroscience, anthropology, economics and epidemiology.

25 Oct 2012: It is exclusively for Indian students based in India when they apply for PhD and MPhil degrees at St John’s College in areas such as science and technology, economics and ... St John’s College, where Dr Singh studied for a First in Economics in the

21 Feb 2012: Whereas business clusters are built on inter-firm competition resulting in enhanced economic growth, conservation clusters are built on inter-organisation collaboration resulting in innovative solutions to a global threat.

13 Jan 2012: A multi-media production with a musical narrative set in the day room of a psychiatric hospital, Inside a Quiet Mind brought together Cambridge Neuroscientists

22 Feb 2012: Share. Published. 22 Feb 2012. Image. Robert Zoellick. Credit: World Economic Forum.

11 Oct 2012: To test whether the native light-sensitive channels could be affected by mechanical forces in the membrane, the microvillar membrane was stretched or compressed by changing the osmotic pressure.

28 Sep 2012: As history, Katyn is the subject of competing narratives which, in the post-Soviet age, it has slowly become possible to test against the truth.

1 Jun 2012: universities. Moreover, this new approach will critically test existing models of nuclear waste behaviour and allow regulators to implement sustainable solutions to the nuclear waste challenge through the development of scientifically

28 Dec 2012: This was a crucial time in Spain, as Falk explained: “The 19th century had seen civil wars and coups with numerous failed attempts at economic reform and industrialisation.

15 May 2012: The main case for action includes the identification of the health burden of NCDs; NCDs as threats to economic and social development; the cost-effectiveness and -savings produced by NCD interventions;

9 Apr 2012: One special characteristic of the eggshell is that its physical properties are affected by the arrangement of crystals in the shell’s microstructure, a phenomenon we’re exploring using mechanical tests

8 Aug 2012: People need different incentives. Sometimes they’re economic, other times they’re still material but not monetary, and sometimes people just need to be enabled to do the right thing,” said

16 Feb 2012: test potential new treatments. ... Not only this, but our new model shows many of the characteristic features of human Alzheimer’s disease and will allow us to test new treatments more easily.”.

25 Jul 2012: But, by using sheep, we could directly test Hamilton’s prediction, because we had control of the system we were testing,” says Professor Alan Wilson, Head of the Structure and Motion

17 Mar 2012: distance themselves from the policies of the UK Government; the White House Press Secretary going as far as to hand the press a two-page document outlining the economic differences between

18 Jun 2012: Professor Simms agreed that “independence is illusory and that is what we are seeing now,” adding that he believed a vote for Scottish independence amid the current economic crisis would be

10 Oct 2012: these terms, and they’ve built a mathematical model to test it.

4 Jul 2012: Dozens of MPs and Peers were given rare, personal access to the photos after they were saved for the nation through the efforts of SPRI, with a major grant

14 Mar 2012: I forgot all about the wisdom teeth problem for many years until Cambridge-based neuroscientist Dr Mark Treherne asked me to bring some medicinal plant samples back in order to test ... We’ve had really clear result from the tests so far, particularly

30 Oct 2012: Consequently, it is often affected by toxic compounds. Demonstrating that a new drug candidate is free from liver toxicity is a key test in the development process, and it is a ... test that most drug candidates fail.

18 Dec 2012: The Dimensions of Occupational Gender Segregation in Industrial Countries” considers both economic and social factors in order to measure the extent to which the division of work along gender lines results ... The higher the overall segregation, the

26 Jan 2012: the democracy movement in 1987, examining its relations with the turbulent political and economic changes that occurred during those years.

23 Aug 2012: That appears to be substantiated by the fact that most people dramatically underestimate the proportion of land used for farming, while overestimating its economic contribution.

24 Jan 2012: A project bringing together researchers from six different institutions indicates that a particular variation of the gene group called myostatin, which is

17 Nov 2012: At the turn of the 20. th. century, Cambridge was in many ways a place of sharp social, educational and economic divides.

14 Jun 2012: To test their hypothesis, the scientists simulated 'rain' with a hospital drip and recorded its effect on a captive colony of ants that was foraging on the nectar under the lid.

1 Aug 2012: Find out about the mythical isle of Penglai this Friday at the Fitzwilliam, or team up with the Engineering Department next week to build bridges and then test them to the

28 Jun 2012: been bad for western democracies in terms of their involvement in war, their economic policies and their ability to confront climate change.

14 Oct 2012: In any test involving time pressure, young people will do better. ... But if you’re measuring complexity, it’s a different story. “And if you brain-scan people doing intelligence tests, middle-aged people start to use different parts of their brain

14 May 2012: The report, Rural Housing at a time of economic change, was produced by the Centre for Housing and Planning Research at the University of Cambridge on behalf of the CRC.

29 Dec 2012: There have been a number of user tests - with both ECG monitoring and just the smartphone app - and feedback from users has been positive.

5 Oct 2012: But south-south aid and development cooperation have rarely made headlines and most academic analyses of aid – whether from economics, anthropology, geography or political studies – have concentrated on evaluating and critiquing ... By and large,

24 May 2012: To make sure their computer model was reliable, they built similar models of seals, salamanders, platypuses, crocodiles and otters and used the model to test their joint movements.

13 Nov 2012: In contrast, for cancers which there is a good enough medical test, such as X-ray or ultrasound, it seems that being old can protect somewhat from late stage diagnosis – presumably ... because the frequency of having these tests increases with older

7 Feb 2012: the happiness of his childhood – for their temporary economic survival.

19 Dec 2012: They are developing the skills needed to translate world class research into wider economic and social benefits. ... They are developing the skills needed to translate world class research into wider economic and social benefits.”.

12 Oct 2012: A collaboration to transform public health has been forged between the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)

22 Jan 2012: Here too there is a legacy beyond the headlines: sensitive drug tests are used outside sports too, and research into intersex and gender identities has been – at least in part – informed

24 Apr 2012: New research by scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests that chronic cocaine abuse accelerates the process of brain ageing. The study, published

31 Oct 2012: in the Poles, along with analysing blood tests, starting with the Shackleton Epic expedition in a few months.

24 Feb 2012: Older students can work out what the probability is that an athlete who fails a drug test is actually innocent.

28 Feb 2012: This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells. Under the Microscope is a collection of videos that show glimpses

9 Feb 2012: Many, including heads of state like Angela Merkel, visibly shake their head in exasperation, rightly or wrongly, at the Greek response to the(ir) economic crisis.

28 Jan 2012: Other historians have explored the vigorous debates over monetarist economic policy, the ‘right to buy’ council houses, privatisation of state industries, and a host of other policies which grew out of