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HIV drug helps protect against build-up of dementia-related proteins…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hiv-drug-helps-protect-against-build-up-of-dementia-related-proteins-in-mouse-brains26 Apr 2023: The treated mice performed better than untreated mice at an object recognition test, suggesting that the drug slowed down memory loss. -
Companies’ zero-deforestation commitments have potential to halve…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/zero-deforestation-commitments-have-potential-to-halve-cattle-driven-deforestation20 Apr 2023: Public sector interventions could include support for alternative economic activities, and financial incentives or greater pressure to avoid deforestation from the Brazilian government. -
Lab-grown ‘small blood vessels’ point to potential treatment for…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/lab-grown-small-blood-vessels-point-to-potential-treatment-for-major-cause-of-stroke-and-vascular16 Nov 2023: Our model could be scaled up relatively easily to test the viability of future potential drugs.”. -
Risk of premature birth from smoking while pregnant more than double…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/risk-of-premature-birth-from-smoking-while-pregnant-more-than-double-previous-estimates28 Sep 2023: The study, published today in the International Journal of Epidemiology, also found that smoking meant that the baby was four times more likely to be small for -
Cambridge academics join £31 million consortium to develop…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-academics-join-ps31-million-consortium-to-develop-trustworthy-and-secure-ai14 Jun 2023: The announcement was made by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), which, as part of London Tech Week, today unveiled a suite of AI investments that will bring -
Carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80%…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/carbon-emissions-from-fertilisers-could-be-reduced-by-as-much-as-80-by-20509 Feb 2023: There are no perfect solutions,” said Serrenho. “We need to rethink how we produce food, and what sorts of economic incentives work best. -
New type of computer memory could greatly reduce energy use and…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-type-of-computer-memory-could-greatly-reduce-energy-use-and-improve-performance23 Jun 2023: The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge, developed a device that processes data in a similar way as the synapses in the human brain. The devices -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-atlantic21 Sep 2023: Dr Jake Subryan Richards, Lead Curator of Black Atlantic and Assistant Professor of international history at the London School of Economics. -
Cambridge researchers elected to Academy of Medical Sciences…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/outstanding-cambridge-biomedical-and-health-researchers-elected-to-academy-of-medical-sciences18 May 2023: She uses a combination of experimental and computational methods to understand biology and to develop clinical tests for early detection and precision diagnostics. -
Self-driving shuttle buses will return to West Cambridge Innovation…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/self-driving-shuttle-buses-will-return-to-west-cambridge-innovation-district-for-new-trial1 Feb 2023: It will test an on-demand self-driving shuttle service around Cambridge University’s West Cambridge Innovation District, and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, to integrate with existing transport services already available -
World’s most threatened seabirds visit remote plastic pollution…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/worlds-most-threatened-seabirds-visit-remote-plastic-pollution-hotspots-study-finds-04 Jul 2023: The extensive study assessed the movements of 7,137 individual birds from 77 species of petrel, a group of wide-ranging migratory seabirds including the -
Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hunter-gatherer-childhoods-may-offer-clues-to-improving-education-and-wellbeing-in-developed7 Mar 2023: Further research. The study calls for more research into children’s mental health in hunter-gatherer societies to test whether the hypothesised evolutionary mismatches actually exist. -
Evolution of two contagious cancers affecting Tasmanian devils…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/evolution-of-two-contagious-cancers-affecting-tasmanian-devils-underlines-unpredictability-of20 Apr 2023: Transmissible cancers, which occur only rarely in the animal kingdom, are spread by the transfer of living cancer cells. In the case of Tasmanian devils, the -
Human embryo-like models created from stem cells to understand…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/human-embryo-like-models-created-from-stem-cells-to-understand-earliest-stages-of-human-development27 Jun 2023: This will let us test the function of specific factors, which is difficult to do in the natural embryo.”. ... Understanding these early developmental processes holds the potential to reveal some of the causes of human birth defects and diseases, and to -
Insight into engaging with the wider Cambridge community
https://www.cam.ac.uk/system/files/engaging_cambridge_community.pdf2 Oct 2023: It is just arrogant to say we sit in the community without taking responsibility for the economic development of the area. -
Machine learning gives users ‘superhuman’ ability to open and control …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/machine-learning-gives-users-superhuman-ability-to-open-and-control-tools-in-virtual-reality8 Nov 2023: The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used machine learning to develop ‘HotGestures’ – analogous to the hot keys used in many desktop -
Largest ever DNA and health research programme for children and young …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/largest-ever-dna-and-health-research-programme-for-children-and-young-people-launches25 Jul 2023: The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) BioResource’s D-CYPHR – the DNA, Children and Young People’s Health Resource – will play a key role -
International study recommends replacing skull section after…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/international-study-recommends-replacing-skull-section-after-treatment-for-a-brain-bleed23 Apr 2023: The RESCUE-ASDH trial, funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), involved 40 centres in 11 countries and involved 450 -
New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s …
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-findings-that-map-the-universes-cosmic-growth-support-einsteins-theory-of-gravity11 Apr 2023: It confirms Einstein’s theory about how massive structures grow and bend light, with a test that spans the entire age of the universe. -
Childhood mental health problems resulting from early-life adversity…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/childhood-mental-health-problems-resulting-from-early-life-adversity-drive-poorer-cognitive8 Feb 2023: Scientists analysed data from the ongoing Millennium Cohort Study, which has assessed 13,287 children on a variety of tests at ages three, five, seven, eleven and fourteen. -
UK-US Summit for Democracy announces Cambridge team as joint winners…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/uk-us-summit-for-democracy-announces-cambridge-team-as-joint-winners-of-challenge-to-detect31 Mar 2023: In the final phase of the challenges, the privacy guarantees of the solutions were put to the test by ‘red teams’, who attempted to reveal the original data used for training -
New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/new-animal-welfare-scoring-system-could-enable-better-informed-food-and-farming-choices22 Mar 2023: The team used their new system to test how the different labels compare in terms of animal welfare. -
Could bird flu spark the next pandemic - and are we prepared if it…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/bird-flu-pandemic13 Jun 2023: The speed at which tests were developed, and vaccines were produced, and clinicians figured out the best way to treat COVID was thanks to all the work done below the radar -
Cracking the great cuckoo cover-up
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/drongos-versus-cuckoos26 Jul 2023: The team could then test what differences in colour and pattern between the foreign egg and the drongo’s own eggs best predicted whether or not the drongo parents were tricked. -
From behind the sofa
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sophie-from-romania13 Jan 2023: Eventually though the story will reach a natural end – which is when my thousands of new followers online will face the shock of realising that I normally tweet about economic policy. -
Taking Cambridge global
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/taking-cambridge-global1 Dec 2023: worked in Cambridge to develop a drone fitted with a range of particle measurement instruments that can be used to test theoretical conclusions on emissions in the real-world marine environment. -
How The Boat Race is propelling routes into rowing
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cutting-through-boat-race23 Mar 2023: Survey. It showed just 10% of the rowing community are from lower socio-economic groups, compared to 47% nationally and 27% of rowers attend independent schools, compared to 7% nationally. ... By funding committed local organisations, the Fund is -
Taking care of mental health
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/diagnosing-mental-health-disorders9 Feb 2023: Her first company, Psynova (acquired by Myriad Genetics in 2011), developed a blood test to diagnose psychiatric conditions, particularly schizophrenia. ... We did release a diagnostic blood test for schizophrenia, but unfortunately it has not survived -
Birds and honey badgers could be cooperating to steal from bees in…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/birds-and-the-badgers29 Jun 2023: It’s an intriguing idea, but hard to test,” said Spottiswoode. The research was primarily funded by the European Research Council. -
Preventing genetic diseases in dogs, our best friends
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/preventing-genetic-diseases-in-dogs20 Apr 2023: Testing alongside breeding. Mellersh’s research group identifies the genetic variants and mutations that underpin these serious inherited diseases and develops tests to spot which dogs carry these. ... It's about prevention rather than a cure,” -
ChatGPT: opportunities and challenges for education
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ChatGPT-and-education5 Apr 2023: If we can harness that dynamism by getting groups of people to collaborate and test it, the guidelines and structures we need to place around the technology will start to emerge. -
“Incredible” diabetes management app now recommended by NICE
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nice-recommends-type-1-diabetes-app7 Nov 2023: Within 20 minutes they were in A&E. Tests showed that Eddie had hyperglycaemia – dangerously high blood sugar levels. -
Cambridge academic named backup astronaut on NASA's historic…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/jenni-gibbons-artemis-mission-moon6 Dec 2023: has been a test bed for technological development – it's this wonderful international partnership 400km above the Earth. ... Credit: NASA. Essentially flying a test mission ahead of the Artemis III moon landing – which will put the first woman and -
Ageing: can we add more life to our years?
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/reverse-age-and-extend-health20 Dec 2023: She’s learned a lot from experiments in test tubes and now wants to see how the process works inside body cells, where many other things are happening in tandem. -
Journeys of discovery: Christine Holt on how our brains wire-up
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/wiring-the-brain-christine-holt18 Oct 2023: But no-one thought it would work. In the end Doug Campbell, my PhD student, did the test one evening in 2001 “just so that I’d stop mentioning it”, as ... Two other postdocs, Hosung Jung and Toshiaki Shigeoka, developed a mouse model to test this -
From ground-breaking research in Nigeria to using novel tools to…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/vice-chancellors-awards-202312 Dec 2023: have the potential to create significant economic, social and cultural impact from, and engagement with and for, research. -
Black British Voices: the findings
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/black-british-voices-report28 Sep 2023: The report argues that, for some, racial disparities in pay and pensions – combined with class hierarchies – create a “fatalism” about economic fairness. -
Opinion: Putin's war of attrition
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/putins-war-of-attrition24 Feb 2023: Putin hopes to outlast Ukraine’s western backers. His forces are destroying Ukraine’s infrastructure to raise the cost of resistance and to make Ukraine an economic burden. -
Changing how we talk — and think — about manufacturing
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/future-of-manufacturing17 Jan 2023: Why? Because economic value of manufactured goods increasingly depends on activities — such as R&D, design and testing services — that are officially categorised as belonging to other sectors of the economy. -
Cambridge Festival launches extensive programme for 2023
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-2023-launch10 Feb 2023: In THE BARON DE LANCEY LECTURE 2023 – ASSISTED DYING: SLIPPERY SLOPES AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (16 March), Professor Emily Jackson (London School of Economics) discusses the practical pitfalls in trying to legislate -
Fixing the Fens
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/fens-and-landscape-regeneration14 Apr 2023: Add to these challenges the huge loss of biodiversity caused by changes in land use, and the wider economic and public health challenges of the region: this problem is much bigger -
Institute for Technology and Humanity: Ensuring technology benefits…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/institute-technology-humanity-launch21 Nov 2023: In fact, one potential project for Connelly involves using machine learning to build and explore a database of declassified documents to test the “mosaic theory”: whether millions of tiny pieces can -
Classics shorts with Mary Beard
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/classics-shorts-with-mary-beard19 Feb 2023: They used special techniques for delivering speeches that Classics experts Shushma Malik and Tim Whitmarsh want to put to the test and who better to take up the challenge than Alex -
Celebrating the women of Cambridge: Part III
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/celebrating-cambridge-women-part-three23 Mar 2023: She heads research under the themes of progress and productivity and her latest book, ‘Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be‘ is on how economics needs to ... Diane was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the public -
Beyond the nuclear family
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/real-families-fitzwilliam-exhibition5 Oct 2023: Golombok believes that while family structures may not change as drastically as they did in the last half-century, the challenges they face are becoming increasingly socio-economic and political. -
#CamFest Speaker Spotlight
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cambridge-festival-spotlights/martin-jones14 Mar 2023: world in Edible economics: how much can food tell us about economic change? ... So food and reproduction have been central to the fashioning of economic behaviour and practice. -
The Mastercard class of '23
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/Mastercard-Foundation-class-of-20233 Aug 2023: Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe. Muhammad Balarabe is from Nigeria. He's looking at global health care with a particular focus on the social and economic determinants of health. -
Inspiring the next generation of scientists - sixth form students…
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/inspiring-scientists-at-cambridge-20237 Mar 2023: They’ve studied areas such as why fruit flies are so important in research, how different types of microscopy are used, and how the PCR tests we all got so familiar -
Predicting threats to food security
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/predicting-threats-to-food-security22 Feb 2023: He explains that he has always been interested in integrating information – epidemiology, ecology, mathematics and economics. -
Celebrating Cambridge Women: Part II
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/celebrating-cambridge-women-part-two15 Mar 2023: She has previously been Head of Social Media at the Houses of Parliament and the London School of Economics, where she built the university’s first social media strategy and launched
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