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23 Feb 2017: Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University of Surrey have identified early biomarkers of disease during examinations of Huntington’s disease

29 Aug 2017: The poet John Clare (1793-1864) was a keen natural historian who knew the countryside in all its moods. His various jobs saw him labouring in farms and

16 Jan 2017: If further tests prove to be successful, it is possible that a drug treating at least some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease could be developed from squalamine. ... Further tests, carried out with human neuronal cells, then revealed another key

23 Jun 2017: The festival, which runs until Sunday 25 June, will allow audiences to quiz more than 130 leading Cambridge neuroscientists on everything from why we get fat

9 Mar 2017: The robber fly Holcocephala is a relatively small fly – at 6mm in length, it is similar in size of the average mosquito. Yet it has the ability to spot and

10 Oct 2017: For the study, researchers distributed surveys on environmental behavior through conservation, economics and biomedical organisations to targeted newsletters, mailing lists and social media groups.

5 Oct 2017: However, more ancient genomic information from both early humans and Neanderthals is needed to test this idea.

2 Jun 2017: Making the programs behind the research accessible allows other scientists to test the code and reproduce the computations in an experiment — in other words, to reproduce results and solidify findings.

21 Feb 2017: While this development mirrors Accra’s integration into the globalised city concept, accompanying this trend are social, economic, environmental and cultural costs.”. ... His long-term plan is to create an Urban Study Research Centre back in Accra,

27 Mar 2017: Published today in the journal Nature Genetics, the findings are the result of work by the OncoArray Consortium, a huge endeavour led by scientists in the UK,

20 Sep 2017: The team used genome editing techniques to stop a key gene from producing a protein called OCT4, which normally becomes active in the first few days of human

28 Mar 2017: Schoolchildren who receive words of encouragement from a teacher are significantly more likely to continue their education beyond the age of 16 than those who

3 Jul 2017: around 40%, showing that they had correctly remembered the locations of more information at the first attempt on a test of episodic memory.

31 May 2017: They are:. Professor Diane Coyle – Professor of Economics at Manchester University, former Vice Chair of the BBC Trust and Economics Editor of the Independent. ... Professor Paul Gilroy – currently Professor of English at Kings College London,

23 Jan 2017: Self-righteousness, gratitude, sympathy, sincerity, and guilt – what if these social behaviours are biologically influenced, encoded within our genes and

14 Dec 2017: Theresa Marteau. Both the types of alcoholic drink and the amount consumed in England has fluctuated over the last 300 years, largely in response to economic, legislative and social factors.

22 Aug 2017: Maitland Robinson Library, Downing College. Marshall Library of Economics. Christ’s College Library.

8 Mar 2017: By the mid-19th century, scholars and administrators were working through masses of linguistic, economic, ethnographic and criminological data to decode the demography of India, defining groups of people as distinctive

9 Jan 2017: Crohn’s disease is one of a number of chronic ‘complex’ diseases for which there is no single gene that causes the disease. In fact, to date around 170 common

10 Jul 2017: The two-day conference (July 13-14) at Jesus College is the first major event held by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) since its

12 Sep 2017: The researchers combined remote sensing data with environmental and socio-economic datasets to assess each approach, and controlled for other factors that are expected to affect deforestation and forest degradation. ... The research was supported by the

28 Mar 2017: Together with our partners, the University of Cambridge is hugely excited at the chance to work with NHS staff, patients and carers to identify, design and test improvements.”.

23 Jan 2017: An archived letter from 1986 detailing plans for a test drive of the new Rover ahead of a press event at Downing Street 5 of 6. ... There were predictable worries,” added Collins. “Her press secretary Bernard Ingham remembered a previous Rover test

24 Nov 2017: Whether it’s a map showing the coal fields of Lancashire in the 1830s – or revealing how this new science was used for economic and military reasons.”.

27 Apr 2017: The documents paint a picture of economic stability and social growth.

22 Mar 2017: Economic opportunities abound. Upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur in late February, national oil and gas company Saudi Aramco signed a US$7 billion agreement with Malaysian oil company Petronas.

20 Dec 2017: numbers – more so than economic growth, climate change or even surges in human population.

8 May 2017: In a second task, adapted from a common rodent test of emotion, the team studied the ability of marmosets to regulate their emotional responses.

8 Nov 2017: The ongoing archaeological project at Interamna Lirenas continues to add new evidence about important aspects of the Roman civilization, stressing the high levels of connectivity and integration (political, social, economic and

18 Jan 2017: The study, published in Lancet Psychiatry, found that 14-year-old adolescents who had contact with mental health services had a greater decrease in depressive

20 Mar 2017: It could also mean presenting exploratory research as though it was originally confirmatory (designed to test a specific hypothesis).

11 Dec 2017: The nature of the study was hidden by claims of testing random media messages, with the climate change perception tests sandwiched between questions on consumer technology and popular culture messaging.

13 Nov 2017: Amongst these, education is paramount as it has significant economic, social and individual returns. ... Accessing quality education can improve learning outcomes which leads to positive economic growth.

13 Feb 2017: The country already has a population of 1.3 billion – and it aspires to both develop as a global economic powerhouse and lift its poorest people out of poverty. ... Kaziranga illustrates the dilemmas of contemporary conservation. If it is to be

20 Apr 2017: This partial recovery has already led to legalised culling of buzzards, to protect the economic interests of a shooting industry that annually releases millions of non-native game birds into the

7 Dec 2017: Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia. Its chief hallmark is the build of ‘plaques’ and ‘tangles’ of misshapen proteins, which lead to the

19 Apr 2017: We’ve shown that our algorithm works for simpler diseases and now the real test will be to determine whether a similar approach can be applied to complex diseases, such as

22 Mar 2017: Biochemical analyses of teeth and bone to test for diet and mobility suggest that, over the course of a lifetime, some farmers on the edge of empire left their homesteads to

17 Jan 2017: Depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Symptoms such as difficulty concentrating or indecisiveness contribute to the disability

5 Apr 2017: The study found that one in six people believes that measures must be taken to sustain life at any cost even when a patient is in the final stages of an

16 Mar 2017: Researchers studying a deal in which Google’s artificial intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, acquired access to millions of sensitive NHS patient records have

6 Dec 2017: From US researchers using the pace of Chinese construction markets to test energy reduction technologies, to the UK government harnessing behavioural psychology to promote energy efficiency, the authors highlight just a

6 Jun 2017: Cultural, religious, economic and political developments are richly illustrated by the coins on show.

28 Sep 2017: by 60% without affecting livestock-related economic development in low-income countries.

14 Jun 2017: Dr Laura Moretti, from the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge, came across an unknown children’s picture-book, dating from 1766, under

21 Jul 2017: to test interventions before they are implemented.

15 Feb 2017: If there’s something wrong with your brain, how do you spot that in an MRI? Of course, if it’s something obvious, such as a major aneurysm or a tumour, anyone

31 Mar 2017: In his keynote speech, Professor Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, argued that even with the UN Convention on

21 Nov 2017: While this technology will undoubtedly ease suffering caused by traumatic injuries and a myriad of illnesses, reversing the decay associated with age is still fraught with ethical, social and economic concerns.

15 Mar 2017:   When I was studying for my PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, I spent an awful lot of my weekends asking teenagers to lie still in a magnetic