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Artificial pancreas trial in young children with diabetes receives…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/artificial-pancreas-trial-in-young-children-with-diabetes-receives-eu4-6millon-grant-from-european5 Sep 2016: Type 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in children; around one in 4,000 children under 14 years of age is diagnosed with the disease each -
Smarter than the average bird? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smarter-than-the-average-bird15 Jun 2016: In two of the tests she conducted, grackles showed they were able to problem solve. ... The second, more complex challenge, was a problem-solving test called Aesop’s Fable. -
University of Cambridge breaks its early stage investment record for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-breaks-its-early-stage-investment-record-for-third-consecutive-year27 Jan 2016: This was the fourth year of operation for the Enterprise Fund, which was announced as part of the SEIS programme in the government’s 2012 budget, established to stimulate economic growth. -
Opinion: Thirty years on as 'new Cold War' looms, US and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-thirty-years-on-as-new-cold-war-looms-us-and-russia-should-remember-the-rekyjavik-summit21 Oct 2016: In what looks very like a tit-for-tat downgrading of bilateral relations, Russia and America have traded diplomatic insults in recent weeks over nuclear weapons, geopolitics and economics, prompting speculation ... David Reynolds, Professor of -
California’s sudden oak death epidemic now ‘unstoppable’ and new…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/californias-sudden-oak-death-epidemic-now-unstoppable-and-new-epidemics-must-be-managed-earlier2 May 2016: Sudden oak death – caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a fungus-like pathogen related to potato blight – has killed millions of trees over hundreds of square -
Opinion: How Davos power brokers can start tackling major…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-how-davos-power-brokers-can-start-tackling-major-environmental-risks21 Jan 2016: The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos. -
The amazing axon adventure | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-amazing-axon-adventure5 Feb 2016: What we’re trying to do is to take biology and put it into computers so that we can really test it.”. -
Man on a mission to beat cancer | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/man-on-a-mission-to-beat-cancer14 Nov 2016: The team are also developing tests for circulating tumour DNA. It’s now known that DNA isn’t present just in cells: it floats around the bloodstream. ... Imagine a child going into a clinic for a five-year checkup, and having a blood test which -
A very hairy story | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/a-very-hairy-story7 Nov 2016: In the wake of the Reformation, people were expected to comply with new rules on dress – but, as always, there were some who were determined to test the limits of authority. -
Keeping patients safe in hospital | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/keeping-patients-safe-in-hospital15 Nov 2016: There’s a danger that they tend to encourage effort substitution – what people often refer to as ‘teaching to the test’,” explains Dixon-Woods. ... Medical science tends to prioritise trials and particular types of evidence, whereas engineering -
Being overweight linked to poorer memory | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/being-overweight-linked-to-poorer-memory25 Feb 2016: and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory. ... The participants took part in a memory test known as the ‘Treasure-Hunt Task’, where they were asked to hide items around complex scenes (for example, a desert with palm trees) -
The archaeology of childhood | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-archaeology-of-childhood30 Jan 2016: Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past opens today and runs until January 29, 2017, at Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, -
Dementia: Catching the memory thief | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/dementia-catching-the-memory-thief21 Sep 2016: And this is still happening,” says Vendruscolo. “Companies are still putting small molecules into clinical trials that, when we test them using our methods, we find stand no chance.”. -
How does your smart city grow? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-does-your-smart-city-grow17 Jun 2016: Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity. ... Infrastructure, both existing and future, is of paramount importance for supporting economic growth and productivity – and so we -
Opinion: Autumn Statement 2016: experts respond | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-autumn-statement-2016-experts-respond24 Nov 2016: A damp squib: economic policy needed a reboot and instead it got a light makeover. ... Michael White, Director, Real Estate Economics and Investment Research Group, Nottingham Trent University. -
Farming at nanoscale dimensions | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/farming-at-nanoscale-dimensions18 Mar 2016: This process has worked successfully since the 1950s, and scientists have even demonstrated the first working test chips with features approaching seven nanometres, the equivalent of placing more than 20 billion -
Interdisciplinary Research Centres | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/research-at-cambridge/interdisciplinary-research-centres3 Oct 2016: Bringing together established areas of research excellence across a wide range of disciplines to drive the underpinning research base of data science and address challenging economic and societal issues. -
John Maynard Keynes: great economist, poor currency trader |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/john-maynard-keynes-great-economist-poor-currency-trader14 Jan 2016: The findings are forthcoming in the Journal of Economic History, in a study co-authored by Olivier Accominotti from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and David Chambers of ... In his currency trading, Keynes relied heavily on his own -
Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/reconditioning-the-brain-to-overcome-fear21 Nov 2016: Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients -
Larger brain size linked to longer life in deer | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/larger-brain-size-linked-to-longer-life-in-deer14 Dec 2016: The researchers, based at the University of Cambridge's Zoology Department and Edinburgh University's Institute of Evolutionary Biology, wanted to test if they could find more direct genetic or -
Sex and the brain: fruitless research? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/sex-and-the-brain-fruitless-research2 Jun 2016: The sex life of the fruit fly is a simple affair. If a fly smells male pheromones, regardless of whether it is a male or a female fly, its response is clear -
Uncovering the afterlife of ancient Egypt | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uncovering-the-afterlife-of-ancient-egypt25 Feb 2016: A coffin artisan in ancient Egypt had to deal creatively with many practical problems and sometimes restrictions on materials available because of the economic or political climate. -
Talk with Your Hands: a Cambridge Shorts film | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/talk-with-your-hands-a-cambridge-shorts-film18 Nov 2016: Talk with Your Hands: Communicating across the Sensory Spectrum opens with Hayden Dahmm speaking to camera. He is studying engineering and he’s blind. One of -
Pain in the machine: a Cambridge Shorts film | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/pain-in-the-machine-a-cambridge-shorts-film2 Nov 2016: Pain is vital: it is the mechanism that protects us from harming ourselves. If you put your finger into a flame, a signal travels up your nervous system to -
Education and the brain: what happens when children learn? |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/education-and-the-brain-what-happens-when-children-learn10 Feb 2016: Tests carried out on toddlers reveal that something quite remarkable happens in child development between the ages of two and five – a stage identified by both educationalists and neuroscientists as critical ... In an experiment designed to identify -
Man v fish in the Amazon rainforest | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/man-v-fish-in-the-amazon-rainforest11 Nov 2016: She says: “I’m interested in the relationship between people’s practical economic lives and how they see the universe. -
Modelling how the brain makes complex decisions | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/modelling-how-the-brain-makes-complex-decisions4 Feb 2016: Researchers have constructed the first comprehensive model of how neurons in the brain behave when faced with a complex decision-making process, and how they -
Going green: why don't we all do it? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/going-green-why-dont-we-all-do-it10 Jun 2016: Fascinated to find the factors at play, Fuerst and his colleague Ante Busic-Sontic started supplementing their economic models with insights derived from psychology. -
Internet censorship: making the hidden visible | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/internet-censorship-making-the-hidden-visible14 Oct 2016: For all the controversy it caused, Fitna is not a great film. The 17-minute short, by the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, was a way for him to -
Why be human when you can be otherkin? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/why-be-human-when-you-can-be-otherkin16 Jul 2016: In May thousands of people watched a documentary called The Secret Life of the Human Pups. The film accompanied Spot and friends (men who dress as dogs) as -
Media fuelling rising hostility towards Muslims in Britain |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/media-fuelling-rising-hostility-towards-muslims-in-britain28 Apr 2016: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). -
Waterworld: can we learn to live with flooding? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/waterworld-can-we-learn-to-live-with-flooding3 Jun 2016: The ‘flood footprint’ of the 2012 ‘Toon Monsoon’ caused around £129 million in direct damages and £102 million in indirect damages, rippling to economic sectors far beyond the physical location of ... As a case study, Barsley is using the -
Opinion: There’s no such thing as a natural-born gambler | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-born-gambler22 Apr 2016: Simple. We have money and a stratified society with a lot of economic inequality and they didn’t. ... We have gone through fits and spurts of gambling, but probably the most important was in the 17th century, when mercantilism upset the economic order -
Wash cycle: making organs fit for transplantation | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/wash-cycle-making-organs-fit-for-transplantation20 Jul 2016: The Department is in the process of recruiting 400 patients for a randomised controlled trial to test this technology. -
Brain, body and mind: understanding consciousness | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/brain-body-and-mind-understanding-consciousness23 Feb 2016: In 10 minutes, Srivas Chennu can work out what’s going on inside your head. With the help of an electrode-studded hairnet wired up to a box that measures -
Predicting gentrification through social networking data | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/predicting-gentrification-through-social-networking-data13 Apr 2016: The ability to predict the gentrification of neighbourhoods could help local governments and policy-makers improve urban development plans and alleviate the negative effects of gentrification while benefitting from economic growth. -
Artificial intelligence: computer says YES (but is it right?) |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/artificial-intelligence-computer-says-yes-but-is-it-right20 Oct 2016: One method is to build in an internal self-evaluation or calibration stage so that the machine can test its own certainty, and report back. -
Opinion: Can we save the algae biofuel industry? | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-can-we-save-the-algae-biofuel-industry10 May 2016: They also found that the economics just didn’t make sense. Building the ponds in which to grow the algae and providing enough light and nutrients for them to grow proved -
Earth, wind and flyer: the moves of Disco Tony and friends |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/earth-wind-and-flyer-the-moves-of-disco-tony-and-friends26 Jul 2016: Their trip was funded through Flight Lines (a joint project between the BTO and the Society of Wildlife Artists), the Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration account, and Smith and -
Study provides clues to why some breast cancers are hard to beat |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-provides-clues-to-why-some-breast-cancers-are-hard-to-beat10 May 2016: The research could also provide vital information to help design breast cancer trials and improved tests for the disease. ... Research like this will help us invent new diagnostic tests to guide treatment for breast cancer patients in the future.”. -
Living on the edge: succeeding in the slums | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/living-on-the-edge-succeeding-in-the-slums30 Jun 2016: funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. -
Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gravitational-waves-detected-100-years-after-einsteins-prediction11 Feb 2016: Now that we have the technological capability to test his theories with the LIGO detectors his scientific brilliance becomes all the more apparent. ... The description of this observation is beautifully described in the Einstein theory of General -
Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/five-dimensional-black-hole-could-break-general-relativity19 Feb 2016: In the 100 years since it was published, general relativity has passed every test that has been thrown at it, but one of its limitations is the existence of singularities. -
Banning trophy hunting could do more harm than good | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/banning-trophy-hunting-could-do-more-harm-than-good11 Jan 2016: Trusts to facilitate equitable benefit sharing within local communities and promote long-term economic sustainability should be created;. -
The Whistle: verifying digital evidence of human rights violations |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/the-whistle-verifying-digital-evidence-of-human-rights-violations12 Oct 2016: Initially funded by Cambridge’s Economic and Social Research Council Impact Acceleration Account, the Whistle is now funded by the European Union as part of ‘ChainReact’, a multi-partner programme to -
Spinal injury and ‘biorobotic control’ of the bladder | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/spinal-injury-and-biorobotic-control-of-the-bladder16 Feb 2016: Spinal cord injury is, in many respects, a testosterone disease, says Professor James Fawcett. What he means by this is that four out of five spinal cord -
Early-stage embryos with abnormalities may still develop into healthy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/early-stage-embryos-with-abnormalities-may-still-develop-into-healthy-babies29 Mar 2016: Pregnant mothers – particular older mothers, whose offspring are at greatest risk of developing such disorders – are offered tests to predict the likelihood of genetic abnormalities. ... Between the 11th and 14th weeks of pregnancy, mothers may be -
'Extreme sleepover #19' – Living beside Uruguay’s ‘Mother…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/extreme-sleepover-19-living-beside-uruguays-mother-dump30 Sep 2016: Patrick’s policy internship at CSaP is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Cambridge Doctoral Training Centre. -
New cases of dementia in the UK fall by 20% over two decades |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-cases-of-dementia-in-the-uk-fall-by-20-over-two-decades19 Apr 2016: Reports in both the media and from governments have suggested that the world is facing a dementia ‘tsunami’ of ever-increasing numbers, particularly as -
Parkinson’s Disease protein plays vital “marshalling” role in healthy …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/parkinsons-disease-protein-plays-vital-marshalling-role-in-healthy-brains19 Sep 2016: To verify the findings, additional tests were then carried out on samples taken from the brains of rats. ... At this stage we can only really speculate about the wider implications of these findings and more research is needed to test some of those ideas,
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