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Enemy at the gates
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/plant-scientists-enemy-at-the-gates22 May 2019: Dr Sebastian Schornack. To test whether GPAT6 was really playing a self-defence role to fight off late blight, the team infected two plant species of the potato family, tomato and
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Women in STEM: Maria Skoularidou | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-maria-skoularidou18 Jul 2019: I am developing new methodologies in the field of probabilistic machine learning (PML), an emerging research area that lies at the intersection of statistics
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Women in STEM: Sheen Gurrib | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-sheen-gurrib19 Sep 2019: I was humbled to be in the finalists for the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact award and for being awarded Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum.
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Women in STEM: Dr Anita Faul | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-dr-anita-faul8 Aug 2019: I think the most fun I’ve probably had at work was when I programmed a movable camera to follow me around the room. I’m a mathematician by training and now
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Women in STEM: Verity Allan | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-verity-allan29 Aug 2019: telescopes - there are test antennas there for the HERA project, and for the SKA.
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Women in STEM: Vidhi Lalchand | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-vidhi-lalchand7 Nov 2019: I was the first international doctoral student to be funded by the Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for artificial intelligence and data science.
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Women in STEM: Dr Stephanie Höhn | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-dr-stephanie-hohn14 Nov 2019: I use computer-generated simulations to test my hypotheses on which cells are actively forming the tissue and which ones are just being pushed around by others.
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Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’ | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-identifies-our-inner-pickpocket21 May 2019: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, the Central European University, and Columbia University, found that one of the reasons that successful
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A-Level results day 2019 #GoingToCambridge | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/a-level-results-day-2019-goingtocambridge15 Aug 2019: Cambridge, King’s College and the London School of Economics.".
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Report examines origins and nature of ‘maths anxiety’ | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/report-examines-origins-and-nature-of-maths-anxiety14 Mar 2019: Students pointed to poor marks or test results, or negative comparisons to peers or siblings as reasons for feeling anxious. ... There was also greater pressure from tests – in particular, SATS – and an increased homework load.
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Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/green-sky-thinking-for-propulsion-and-power4 Dec 2019: Test results are automatically fed back to the augmented design system, allowing it to learn from both the digital and the physical data. ... A national asset, the Centre is designed to combine a scaled-up version of the agile test capability with
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Women in STEM: Dr Anna-Maria Pappa | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-dr-anna-maria-pappa5 Sep 2019: Investigating drug-bacterial membrane interactions allows us to directly test the efficacy of known drugs on bacterial resistant strains, as well as allowing us to better understand the action of novel
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Women in STEM: Fiona Llewellyn-Beard | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/women-in-stem-fiona-llewellyn-beard28 Nov 2019: I study mud. To tell the truth, this is something that has interested me since about the age of three, when I enjoyed making mud pies at nursery school. I’m a
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HIV remission achieved in second patient | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hiv-remission-achieved-in-second-patient5 Mar 2019: The patient remained on ARV for 16 months after the transplant, at which point the clinical team and the patient decided to interrupt ARV therapy to test if the patient was
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Cambridge Festival of Ideas Launches Today | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-festival-of-ideas-launches-today-011 Oct 2019: Rethinking drug addiction will ask why current approaches to addiction are not working and question if this is a matter of economics, politics, ethics or education.
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Cambridge vs climate change | Vice-Chancellor's blog | University …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-vs-climate-change-vice-chancellors-blog20 Sep 2019: eat, how we work, how we travel, the way we communicate, how we measure economic progress and the way our societies are organised.
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Did the Sixties dream die in 1969? | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/did-the-sixties-dream-die-in-19691 Nov 2019: A fraught and difficult decade, the 1960s left a social, cultural and economic legacy of which still exerts a powerful influence on the contemporary world.
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Cambridge team to study concussion in international motorsport |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-team-to-study-concussion-in-international-motorsport21 Feb 2019: Post-injury tests are open to international motorsport competitors, to be carried out during the 2019 race season. ... The team will also collect data using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) as well as salivary biomarkers.
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Using AI to avert ‘environmental catastrophe’ | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/using-ai-to-avert-environmental-catastrophe21 Feb 2019: Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Centre for Doctoral Training in Application of Artificial Intelligence to the study of Environmental Risks
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Opinion: Why policymakers should care about location | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/opinion-why-policymakers-should-care-about-location8 Mar 2019: For politicians and policymakers who came of age during years of sustained economic growth, and who assumed the financially driven economy would generate opportunities for all, these deeply structural patterns of ... How can the economic and societal
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Students submit tips on preparing for University interviews |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/students-submit-tips-on-preparing-for-university-interviews20 Nov 2019: Current and former students offer tips on how to prepare for interviews and what to expect. Helpful hints range from chewing gum in the waiting room to relax,
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AI: Life in the age of intelligent machines | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ai-life-in-the-age-of-intelligent-machines22 Feb 2019: We are said to be standing on the brink of a fourth industrial revolution – one that will see new forms of artificial intelligence (AI) underpinning almost
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Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/robot-uses-machine-learning-to-harvest-lettuce8 Jul 2019: The ‘Vegebot’, developed by a team at the University of Cambridge, was initially trained to recognise and harvest iceberg lettuce in a lab setting. It has now
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Bookings open for 12th Cambridge Festival of Ideas | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/bookings-open-for-12th-cambridge-festival-of-ideas23 Sep 2019: parties. They will offer three perspectives – behavioural, socio-economic and political – that provide a compelling picture of how the British voter has changed in a few generations.
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High levels of oestrogen in the womb linked to autism | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/high-levels-of-oestrogen-in-the-womb-linked-to-autism29 Jul 2019: The discovery adds further evidence to support the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism first proposed 20 years ago. In 2015, a team of scientists at the
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Gamblers predicted Brexit before financial traders, study finds |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/gamblers-predicted-brexit-before-financial-traders-study-finds11 Jan 2019: Researchers from the Faculty of Economics compared the behaviours of the Betfair betting market and the sterling-dollar exchange rate from closure of the polls at 10pm, when odds of 10
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Opinion: Why and how to debate climate change | University of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/opinion-why-and-how-to-debate-climate-change16 Dec 2019: The 15 selected debates illustrate the range of cultural, economic, epistemic, ethical, legal, political, social and technological challenges raised by climate change.
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Molecular patterns could better predict breast cancer recurrence |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/molecular-patterns-could-better-predict-breast-cancer-recurrence13 Mar 2019: We hope that our research tool can be turned into a test doctors can easily use to guide treatment recommendations.”. ... In addition to developing an affordable test for future use in hospitals, Caldas’ team are also already investigating
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Cambridge spin-out company wins £18m to fight Alzheimer's |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-spin-out-company-wins-ps18m-to-fight-alzheimers24 Jan 2019: A biopharmaceutical company set-up by Cambridge academics from St John's College to develop drugs to treat illnesses such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson’s and more
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A new educational initiative – Roots – makes music a priority |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/a-new-educational-initiative-roots-makes-music-a-priority25 Mar 2019: Cambridgeshire secondary school pupils had the chance to put into practice their new singing talents – from music from the Middle Ages through to the present
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Inflammation links heart disease and depression, study finds |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/inflammation-links-heart-disease-and-depression-study-finds19 Mar 2019: Dr Khandaker is currently involved in a clinical trial to test tocilizumab, an anti-inflammatory drug used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis that inhibits IL-6, to see if reducing
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‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mindreading-neurons-simulate-decisions-of-social-partners12 Apr 2019: Researchers at the University of Cambridge identified the previously-unknown neuron type, which they say actively and spontaneously simulates mental decision
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Brain training app improves users’ concentration, study shows |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/brain-training-app-improves-users-concentration-study-shows21 Jan 2019: A team from the Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cambridge has developed and tested ‘Decoder’, a new game that is aimed at
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‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/trickster-god-used-fake-news-in-babylonian-noah-story26 Nov 2019: Dr Martin Worthington’s new research analysing the word play in the story has uncovered the duplicitous language of a Babylonian god called Ea, who was
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Cambridge University research and the East of England | University of …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-university-research-and-the-east-of-england1 Mar 2019: But the region also faces multiple challenges. In some areas, acute economic inequalities are linked to low educational outcomes, poor health, skills deficits and reduced connectivity.
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University joins Mind initiative to boost mental health support |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-joins-mind-initiative-to-boost-mental-health-support10 Sep 2019: University of Greenwich. University of Bristol. Teesside University. The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smog-eating-graphene-composite-reduces-atmospheric-pollution5 Dec 2019: x. ) than standard titania nanoparticles in tests on real pollutants.
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Achievements of Cambridge figures recognised in Queen’s Birthday…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/achievements-of-cambridge-figures-recognised-in-queens-birthday-honours-20197 Jun 2019: She is also a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council. ... Her research has suggested ways to reduce the large socio-economic inequalities in education achievement that we have in the UK.
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Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/childhood-obesity-linked-to-structural-differences-in-key-brain-regions24 Oct 2019: They also analysed results from tests of executive function. The team found an association between increased BMI and significant reductions in the average (mean) thickness of the cortex, as well as ... Credit: Lisa Ronan, University of Cambridge). The
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Mighty mites give scrawny beetles the edge over bigger rivals |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/mighty-mites-give-scrawny-beetles-the-edge-over-bigger-rivals6 Mar 2019: The Cambridge researchers wanted to test whether ‘losers’ might be more likely to have a mutualistic relationship with another species in order to gain an advantage over their stronger rivals. ... beetles. To test this idea directly, the researchers
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Saving ‘Half-Earth’ for nature would affect over a billion people |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/saving-half-earth-for-nature-would-affect-over-a-billion-people18 Nov 2019: However, little work has gone into identifying the social and economic implications for people. ... We need to be ambitious given the environmental crises. But it is vital that social and economic implications at local levels are considered if the
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Cambridge appoints first DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-appoints-first-deepmind-professor-of-machine-learning18 Sep 2019: Professor Lawrence joins the University’s Department of Computer Science and Technology from Amazon Cambridge, where he has been Director of Machine Learning
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Young people at risk of addiction show differences in key brain…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/young-people-at-risk-of-addiction-show-differences-in-key-brain-region4 Mar 2019: What most motivates me about my own research is working out how to test specific hypotheses about mental health—say, if a specific brain region is under-active in depression— in ... These tests will never exist without a series of experiments
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Driverless cars working together can speed up traffic by 35 percent | …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/driverless-cars-working-together-can-speed-up-traffic-by-35-percent20 May 2019: Technology. Many existing tests for multiple autonomous driverless cars are done digitally, or with scale models that are either too large or too expensive to carry out indoor experiments with fleets ... In future work, the researchers plan to use the
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Cambridge researchers win European Research Council funding |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-researchers-win-european-research-council-funding28 Mar 2019: While audio sensing in a mobile context is inexpensive to deploy and can reach people who may not have access to or be able to afford other diagnostic tests, it does
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Scientists identify possible source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-identify-possible-source-of-the-uncanny-valley-in-the-brain1 Jul 2019: To investigate these mechanisms, the researchers studied brain patterns in 21 healthy individuals during two different tests using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow within the ... In the first test,
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Recalling happy memories during adolescence can reduce risk of…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/recalling-happy-memories-during-adolescence-can-reduce-risk-of-depression14 Jan 2019: To test their hypothesis, the researchers analysed data from 427 young people, average age of 14 years, from Cambridge and the surrounding area, all of whom were considered to be at ... The results are published today in Nature Human Behaviour. At the
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Vice-Chancellor Toope reinforces Sciences Po partnership in Paris |…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/vice-chancellor-toope-reinforces-sciences-po-partnership-in-paris3 Apr 2019: It has seven campuses across France, and a record of excellent research in law, economics, history, political science and sociology. -
Scheme launched to improve health of French Bulldogs, Pugs and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scheme-launched-to-improve-health-of-french-bulldogs-pugs-and-bulldogs4 Feb 2019: These grades will be recorded on the Kennel Club’s database and published in the Breed Records Supplement, on the dog’s registration certificate, and on the Kennel Club Health Test ... We are researching the genetics of this condition but it is
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‘I bottle it up’: the emotions of solitary confinement | University…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/i-bottle-it-up-the-emotions-of-solitary-confinement1 Apr 2019: Ben is an Economic & Social Research Council New Investigator at the Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge.
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