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13 Jun 2017: Using sensitive laboratory tests, embryos can be detected as they implant into the womb about one week after fertilisation. ... At this point the hormone hCG, which is used in regular pregnancy tests, becomes detectable.

23 Jun 2017: While the technique is still several years away from use in humans, tests have begun in mice.

13 Sep 2017: The team now hopes to secure funding to test their vaccine candidate in humans in the near future.

14 Jul 2017: Liddell adds: “CRISPR-Cas9 patent wars are just warming up, demonstrating some of the economic issues at stake.

16 Feb 2017: Really we need to develop a bedside test that doesn’t require costly and time-consuming laboratory analysis.

19 Sep 2017: Concerning the null findings on the testosterone levels, the researchers suggested that competition-induced testosterone fluctuations may be hard to detect, and so they are carrying out further work to test

27 Jun 2017: The total economic impact of Cambridge University’s Museums and Botanic Garden was estimated to be at least £16m in 2015-16.

13 Jun 2017: While many of them face discrimination due to their sexual identities, or are living in precarious socio-economic situations, Mlangeni’s work does not cast his subjects as ‘victims’ but rather

17 May 2017: Bouncing production around the planet is already making less and less economic sense,” says Livesey.

1 Jun 2017: A study published today in Science shows that the Zika virus hijacks a human protein called Musashi-1 (MSI1) to allow it to replicate in, and kill, neural stem

13 Jul 2017: Dr Liu has developed a non-invasive respiratory function test for short-skulled dog breeds, including French bulldogs and pugs, which suffer from airway obstruction.

28 Mar 2017: One of the studies is a so-called ‘reversal learning’ test. In this test, the marmoset learns that pressing one button gives it a juice reward, while it gets no reward

3 Nov 2017: We are sometimes confronted with reminders of unwanted thoughts — thoughts about unpleasant memories, images or worries. When this happens, the thought may be

22 Feb 2017: Principle. Amartya Sen (Trinity College 1957, 1998): Nobel prize-winning economist. His reputation is based on studies of famine, human development theory and welfare economics.

15 Sep 2017: produce a computer model to replicate growth in the organism and test previous hypotheses about where and how growth occurred.

20 Apr 2017: She said: “We know that trazodone is safe to use in humans, so a clinical trial is now possible to test whether the protective effects of the drug we see on

14 Nov 2017: Whether you like it or not, almost every step you take online is recorded: the websites you visit, the purchases you make, the songs you listen to, the

13 Oct 2017: As many as one in ten people of European ancestry is affected by restless legs syndrome, in which sufferers feel an overwhelming urge to move, often in

11 Sep 2017: Search. Search. Cambridge researchers help develop new diagnostic test for African sleeping sickness. ... The international not-for-profit organisation FIND and the diagnostics company Alere have today launched their second-generation rapid diagnostic

22 Feb 2017: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) provides financial assistance to countries in economic trouble. ... The organisation has long been regarded as a tool of the Western economic powers, primarily the US and Europe.

14 Mar 2017: The team used different types of biomass in their experiments. Pieces of wood, paper and leaves were placed in test tubes and exposed to solar light.

16 Jan 2017: They were also asked to rate their reasons for using these words and then took part in a lie test to determine whether they were being truthful or simply responding in

13 Feb 2017: Although trypanosomiasis is also a disease of humans, the number of cases is low, and the more serious concerns about the disease relate to the economic impact on agricultural production.”.

23 May 2017: “Weight loss strategies are often inefficient because the body works like a thermostat and couples the amount of calories we burn to the amount of calories we

6 Mar 2017: OCD is a disorder characterised by intrusive thoughts and repetitive, irrational behaviours, for example an obsession with cleanliness leading to repetitive

6 Jan 2017: scale. Also, as the researchers acknowledge, they carried out several statistical tests looking for significant associations – ones that have a low p-value (the probablility of finding this difference when there ... While the current analysis ruled out

6 Feb 2017: Knowledge lies at the heart of social and economic development, so countries with a thriving knowledge economy and good research infrastructure develop quicker; and the gap between those that don’t

13 Jan 2017: And US start-up Hyperloop One recently announced a shortlist of 35 potential hyperloop test projects, which included proposals for routes linking Sydney with Melbourne, London with Edinburgh and Mumbai with

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

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

26 Jan 2017: We’re trying to reduce this time by assessing ways that GPs could carry out the tests by themselves, as long as it’s safe and sensible to do so. ... We are open to assessing many different tests, and we’re excited to hear from potential

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

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

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.

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

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

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,

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

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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