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22 Apr 2014: the age of five faces up to 19,000 injections and 50,000 finger prick blood tests by the time they are 18.

29 Nov 2014: In order to test whether two- and three-year-olds are able not only to retain the what-when-where of an episodic memory but also to recall these three in ... a holistic, non-elemental way, the team gave more than 370 pre-schoolers two kinds of memory test

11 Nov 2014: The environmental science community’s response to the awards has been outstanding, with 82 applications of an exceptional standard submitted across four categories of impact: economic, social, early-career and international,

15 May 2014: Two significant breakthroughs which could inform future treatments for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, have been announced by

7 Jan 2014: The approach we have used to test willow genes in Arabidopsis could be widely useful for assessing functional genetic diversity in slow-growing species.”.

7 May 2014: It was not until the advent of the Second World War, ten years after the initial stock market crash, that economic output in the US recovered its pre-1929 levels. ... This devastating period of economic meltdown caused untold hardship to millions in the

1 Oct 2014: In addition, human stem cells grown in the laboratory can be used to produce experimental models of diseased tissues and to test therapeutic drugs.

10 Apr 2014: Lane, who is a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Economic Sociology, said: “Part of the motivation for the study was the need for a better ... In part, the study suggests the evolution has been hindered by a shortage

13 Jun 2014: The Honorary Professor of Social and Economic Geography received the Victoria Medal “for conspicuous merit in human geography”.

19 Sep 2014: Two eminent scientists have made an impassioned appeal to the world’s religious leaders for help in curbing the potentially catastrophic effects of the ongoing

16 Oct 2014: The researchers believe that a combination of such tests could help improve accuracy in the prognosis for a patient. ... used in isolation, combined with other tests it could help in the clinical assessment of patients.

27 Oct 2014: The team of researchers, led by Dr Rafael Carazo Salas from the Department of Genetics, combined high-resolution 3D confocal microscopy and computer-automated

25 Nov 2014: An international team comprising more researchers than the arthropod has legs (106 researchers) has sequenced the genome of Strigamia maritima, a Northern

6 Nov 2014: Elsewhere, he perhaps surprisingly argues that the widespread view that England is in a state of post-Imperial political and economic decline is a myth. ... Another eye-catching argument within Tombs’ extensive survey is that “declinism” – the

30 Oct 2014: The half century covered by Houghton-Walker’s study was a time of rapid social and economic change in both town and country as the growing population put pressure on all

8 Apr 2014: The research, led by Dr Luke Clark from the University of Cambridge, was published on April 7 2014 in the journal PNAS. During gambling games, people often

10 Dec 2014: of communication between general practitioners and specialists, and easier access to specialist tests such as scans and endoscopies. ... But they stress that novel diagnostic tests will need to be developed for cancers that are more difficult to detect.

18 Jul 2014: As we age, our brains naturally lose some of their volume – in other words, brain cells and connections. This process, known as atrophy, typically begins in

2 Oct 2014: Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified the two regions of the brain involved in these two tasks – picking out objects from background

6 Aug 2014: The researchers at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, part of Cambridge University NHS Hospitals Trust, have developed a clinical test for PALB2, which will become part of their NHS service.