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18 Feb 2008: On the same day, members of the public will also have the chance to join in the build-a-brain activity, as well as trying tests that are used clinically to

24 Jul 2008: Search. Search. New test may lead to early diagnosis of devastating eye condition. ... We look forward to the first test for age-related macular degeneration emerging from ArcticDx".

22 Oct 2008: The study, led by researchers from the University of Cambridge, has found that alemtuzumab not only stops MS from advancing in patients with early stage active

1 Sep 2008: Living systems are complex, often involve tens of thousands of genetically encoded components, and possess feedback mechanisms for self-organisation,

12 Jun 2008: The Pilkington Prizes are awarded each year to academic or academic-related staff who have distinguished themselves in teaching. This year’s winners include a

1 Sep 2008: Professor Simone Hochgreb and colleagues in the Department of Engineering have built the rig to support the Environmentally Friendly Engine programme, which

1 May 2008: Professor Barry Everitt, at the Department of Experimental Psychology, and Professor Ed Bullmore, at the Department of Psychiatry, have been elected for their

1 Sep 2008: A team of over a dozen researchers at the Rolls-Royce Materials UTC in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy has been studying the properties of

27 Mar 2008: It was fabulous to see families using some basic engineering principles to design, build and test a rocket car – and also have lots of fun,” said Joy.

10 Jul 2008: Share. Published. 10 Jul 2008. Image. Test tubes. Credit: Hakan Dahlstrom from Flickr.

1 Feb 2008: But it is less clear whether the pattern of solutions directly responds to economic interests. ... This study has illustrated that private law can operate with a kind of relative autonomy from contemporary social and political ideas or economic interests.

5 Jun 2008: New research by scientists at the University of Cambridge suggests that the neurotransmitter serotonin, which acts as a chemical messenger between nerve cells,

1 Sep 2008: Instead of achieving this by using a robotic violinist that repeats the same piece on a variety of real violins, in this project the tests themselves are virtual. ... Psychoacoustical test methods can be used to find the threshold for detection of any

8 Jul 2008: The Centre for Trophoblast Research will promote the study of placental biology, focusing on the unique cell type (trophoblasts) that makes up much of the

1 May 2008: The emergence of commercial fishing represents a major watershed in European economic history and the intensity of human use of the sea. ... For historians this could help mark the origins of the notion of Europe as an economic community.

1 Feb 2008: Student teams had the opportunity to use relatively simple biological components to design and create an organic machine, which could then be operated in

8 Feb 2008: Because the AHRC’s definition of KT is broad and flexible in implementation, its impact has extended to key societal and economic challenges. ... Several new strategic initiatives have been planned for 2007–2008. In 2007, the AHRC launched a joint

8 Jul 2008: The Centre for Trophoblast Research will promote the study of placental biology, focusing on the unique cell type (trophoblasts) that makes up much of the

1 Feb 2008: Searching for information on the internet has become second nature. Yet, many searches return too many documents and it takes time to examine each one and find

1 May 2008: The problem was how to test this hypothesis. This is where the skills of the engineers allowed an advance that could not be achieved using biological techniques alone.

19 Sep 2008: The group are now looking for a lab to test the efficacy of their design and establish that the majority of the virus is deactivated on its passage through the layer.

1 Feb 2008: Some of the deepest and greatest insights in reasoning have been made using mathematics. It’s not surprising therefore that emulating such powerful reasoning

1 May 2008: To make matters worse, many new drugs are ineffective during early clinical tests in patients. ... Through this we hope to guide the better design of clinical trials to test new drugs and to identify ‘biomarkers’ that help to distinguish patients who

11 Dec 2008: "Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century", which is being hosted by Cambridge University, will suggest that the very idea of culture is

3 Dec 2008: The study was based on interviews with Muslim students at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and the University of Bradford.

1 Feb 2008: They work closely with Dr Ole Paulsen at the University of Oxford, whose group conducts experiments to test the predictions of the model in the neural networks of the hippocampus, and

20 Aug 2008: That cause can often be economic, but there are clear signs that many of these movements encourage people to take pride in their country and the part they play in Japanese ... Japanese people are also being encouraged to rise early to increase their

1 May 2008: Since the country began to integrate with the world’s economic and business systems, a consistently stated goal of China’s industrial policy has been to construct internationally competitive companies. ... which are state owned and still central to

1 May 2008: Dr Emma Gilby from the Department of French and Dr Rodrigo Cacho from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese were honoured recently by The Leverhulme Trust

1 Sep 2008: Funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the study forms part of a wider £30 million Teaching and Learning Research

8 Feb 2008: Current diagnostic methods have remained unchanged for over a century and rely on a subjective, interview-style analysis of the patient by the medical practitioner rather than a diagnostic test.

1 May 2008: Cities have expanded over time to meet the economic growth and lifestyle aspirations of those who live in them. ... Each institution contributes expertise in different areas to the multidisciplinary project, from energy generation and supply, through

1 May 2008: Funding was provided under the umbrella of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC), a partnership of funders led by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and including the MRC, which

1 Feb 2008: In current toxicity tests, an organism is typically exposed to a single chemical in a strictly controlled laboratory setting, over a relatively short period of time (typically days or weeks). ... For instance, work within the NoMiracle project has

1 May 2008: To understand ramen’s cultural and economic influence in the international scene, Dr Barak Kushner, from the Department of East Asian Studies, is charting the history and shifts in food culture ... Students as well as labourers flocked to the new

8 Feb 2008: Because the AHRC’s definition of KT is broad and flexible in implementation, its impact has extended to key societal and economic challenges. ... Several new strategic initiatives have been planned for 2007–2008. In 2007, the AHRC launched a joint

8 Feb 2008: In this recent study, 12 anaesthetists at Addenbrooke’s Hospital volunteered to receive varying amounts of sedation to test at what level their brain could understand speech.

5 Dec 2008: Transforming Conflict, which is being published by the Foundation for Church Leadership, was written by researchers at Cambridge University and offers a

1 Feb 2008: Predicting human play. Go is an excellent test-bed for new techniques in AI because it is well defined by a set of simple rules yet remains sufficiently complex to challenge

15 Jul 2008: Speaking at Europe's major neuroscience conference the Forum of European Neuroscience in Geneva yesterday, Monday 14 July, Professor Barry Everitt described

1 May 2008: in China is embarking on a 15-year study using high-throughput screening, toxicity tests and clinical trials to identify the medicinal constituents of herbal preparations.

11 Sep 2008: To test this theory, the research team set out to identify whether prevalent personality types were indeed reflected in the social and cultural life of each US state. ... Over six years, 619,397 people from across the US took part in an online test in

1 Sep 2008: Medical imaging has developed at an astonishingly rapid speed since the first discovery of X-rays in 1895. Today, imaging is a crucial part of the biomedical

16 Jul 2008: Fifteen volunteers without a family history of OCD, 14 people with OCD and 12 immediate relatives of these patients took the picture test.

1 Sep 2008: Early tests are now being carried out in ALPS UK on a miniature full-colour projector that will be demonstrated at the ALPS Show in Tokyo in September 2008.

6 Jun 2008: This will be the focus of the Cambridge project. The researchers plan to test the use of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to provide visibility of different assets used in airport

25 Jul 2008: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is launching a ground-breaking new concept which will tap into the highest quality thinking in academia to optimise the early clinical

12 Aug 2008: The team, led by Professor Barry Everitt, was able to reduce drug-seeking behaviours in rats by blocking a brain chemical receptor important to learning and

7 Jun 2008: Many individuals take addictive drugs at some point in their lives - not just illicit drugs like cocaine and heroin, but also legal and commonly available

12 Sep 2008: David Baulcombe, the Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, is being honoured with the 2008 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for his discovery of