Search

28 Oct 2016: These are essentially like miniature organs, which enable the researchers to study how these organs – for example, the liver – grow and to test possible drug candidates.

31 Oct 2016: Carrie Allison. A team of psychologists at the University of Cambridge has conducted a social psychology experiment to test the theory that an individual’s level of empathy influences their behaviour.

1 Jul 2016: It has been an emotional month for many in the UK. After the sadness and anger that followed the tragic murder of MP Jo Cox, many people now feel fearful and

17 Feb 2016: Restless, disordered, uncertain, impulsive, emotional – the teenage brain can be a confused fury of neural firings and misfirings. For most 14- to 24-year-olds

16 Feb 2016: Another study looked at how women’s spending habits would change during an economic recession.

12 Feb 2016: The drug, which is an approved anti-cancer treatment, has been shown to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, both in a test tube and in nematode worms. ... Using a test developed by study co-author Professor Tuomas Knowles, also from the Department

6 Sep 2016: These patients also sought out risks more, and showed a preference for novelty on lab tests.

29 Jan 2016: Researchers have successfully demonstrated how it is possible to interface graphene – a two-dimensional form of carbon – with neurons, or nerve cells, while

25 Feb 2016: Once you’re abstinent, the compulsivity or habits also improve. Now that we have this test we can start to cut across other addictions – is there an underlying neural process shared

12 Jan 2016: A second study from the team suggests that a drug used to treat paracetamol overdose may be able to help individuals who want to break their addiction and stop

22 Nov 2016: Women also played an important economic role. That women are listed in only 35 different occupations, however, shows that their opportunities were far more limited.

12 Jul 2016: We need to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity to breaking point. ... It also hints at a powerful new tool with which to test general relativity.

25 Feb 2016: The project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is led by Professor Catherine Barnard and Dr Amy Ludlow from Cambridge’s Faculty of Law, and is launched today (Friday

27 Jan 2016: For them, Kagame is seen as a stabilising force for the country and its best chance for continued socio-economic progress. ... They also require one that would consolidate the socio-economic gains made thus far.

18 Oct 2016: Many more are currently undergoing clinical trials to test their efficacy and safety. ... We will need clinical trials to test how effective they are in patients who do not have the chronic conditions for which the drugs have been developed, such as

16 Jun 2016: “Addiction does not happen overnight but develops from behaviour that has been repeated over and over again until individuals lose control,” said Dr Karen

10 Oct 2016: As part of the work of the Global Agenda Council on Mental Health from the World Economic Forum, 23 global corporate organisational case studies on mental health strategies were gathered and ... There is a growing body of evidence on the economic costs

11 May 2016: We used low educational attainment as a marker of social disadvantage – so it’s also an indication of lacking the social, economic, behavioural and psychological resources that might leave people more

28 Oct 2016: I put it to the test – Google refuses on the basis that web links to my long-closed business are ‟justified” as they ‟may be of interest to potential or current

4 Jan 2016: In late 2015 a Cambridge-based nonprofit released the Raspberry Pi Zero, a tiny £4 computer that was a whole £26 cheaper than the original 2012 model. The Zero

15 Aug 2016: To test whether our circadian rhythms affect susceptibility to, or progression of, infection, researchers at the Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, compared normal ‘wild

24 May 2016: The crisis revived a flagging IMF in 2009, and the organisation has since approved some of its largest loans to countries in economic trouble. ... The IMF has publicly acknowledged their objectives to include creating breathing space for borrowing

13 Apr 2016: In terms of earnings according to subject, medical students were easily the highest earners at the median ten years out, followed by those who studied economics. ... For men, median earnings for medical graduates were about £50,000 after ten years, and

19 Sep 2016: Scientists have found that developing nerve cells are able to ‘feel’ their environment as they grow, helping them form the correct connections within the brain

28 Oct 2016: Rats have also been widely used to test drug efficacy and safety. ... Image: Rat taking part in test of 'checking behaviour', a key trait in OCD.

27 Oct 2016: To test their theory, the team administered the serpin to mice with haemophilia B and clipped their tails.

28 Nov 2016: Kenneth Armstrong. The think-tank British Influence is said to be contemplating a judicial review arguing that the UK remains a contracting party to the European Economic Area (EEA) agreement and

4 May 2016: The term ‘nature writing’ didn’t exist in the 1940s when Nan Shepherd wrote The Living Mountain, a book in which she describes exploring the Cairngorm

4 Aug 2016: as measured using a standard test similar to an IQ test.

31 May 2016: The study led by Gates Cambridge Scholar Alison Greggor and published in the journal Animal Behaviour, shows that corvids - the family of birds which includes

29 Mar 2016: And theatre director and academic Zoe Svendsen and journalist and economist Paul Mason will explore the theatricality of capitalism through examining what an economic analysis of Shakespeare’s plays might tell

20 Jan 2016: This would extend the history of the same underlying socio-economic conditions that characterise other instances of early warfare: a more settled, materially richer way of life.

29 Dec 2016: The Cambridge team also conducted a litmus test of language use in science.

6 Jun 2016: The review, published today in the journal Brain and Behavior, also highlighted how anxiety disorders often provide a double burden on people experiencing

6 Sep 2016: The trial would use a DNA test to categorise patients into one of the three groups to determine the best treatments for each group and move away from a ... For the first time we may be able to identify and test targeted treatments designed to exploit the

1 Mar 2016: Dr Thies Lindenthal from the University of Cambridge, who conducted the study, says that – while the domain name market may be new – the economics is not. ... The market fits nicely onto classic models of urban economics, he says, and – as with

14 Jan 2016: Currently, patients due to undergo surgery are given a dose of anaesthetic based on the so-called ‘Marsh model’, which uses factors such as an individual’s

14 Mar 2016: Researchers have used a non-invasive method of observing how the process leading to Parkinson’s disease takes place at the nanoscale, and identified the point

22 Mar 2016: said. The paper is based on four separate but related experimental tests on hundreds of people, including undergraduate students as well as non-students. ... In one test, students were told that their job prospects were easier (prompting downward

21 Jun 2016: Researchers are calling for the end to an era of confusion and alarm about children's heart surgery statistics by launching an innovative communication tool

20 May 2016: Adolescence is a key time in an individual’s development, and is a period where some teenagers begin to show signs of major depression. One of the major risk

27 Oct 2016: Researchers have discovered that a ‘reorganisation’ of the wiring of the brain is the underlying cause of phantom limb pain, which occurs in the vast majority

1 Dec 2016: Depression affects around one in twenty adolescents, causing considerable suffering and potentially affecting relationships and educational performance.

25 Jan 2016: for patient benefit and economic return.”.

29 Feb 2016: Breaking a new path for growth. More effective and efficient global economic and financial governance. ... status as home to one in five of the world’s people and a growing economic power.

7 Mar 2016: They bear the brunt of Islamophobia, now increasingly apparent in civil society (especially against women), as well as the social and economic disadvantage caused by high unemployment.

12 Aug 2016: Not only did they flirt and dance – and infuriate their husbands with demands for the latest fashions – but they exerted genuine political and economic power.

7 Mar 2016: The system could help machines understand language more effectively. In tests against commercial crossword-solving software, the system, designed by researchers from the UK, US and Canada, was more accurate at

3 Aug 2016: Monetary stimulus can do little to stimulate these. Low interest rates may stimulate private sector investment in normal times, but such investment is discouraged by economic and financial uncertainty. ... The Brexit vote has led to a new government and

15 Sep 2016: They were asked to rate how good the GP was at various measures: giving sufficient time and listening to the patient in the the film, explaining the tests and treatment, involving