Winners of science fellowships announced
24 June 2014Cambridge academic among winners of 2014 L’Oréal-UNESCO UK & Ireland For Women In Science Fellowships.
Overnight home use of artificial pancreas ‘feasible and beneficial’
22 April 2014Children with type 1 diabetes have been able to use pioneering artificial pancreas technology, developed at the University of Cambridge, for the first time overnight at home without the supervision of researchers.
Stress hormones in financial traders may trigger ‘risk aversion’ and contribute to market crises
18 February 2014New study’s findings overturn theory of personal risk preference as a ‘stable trait’, and show that real source of instability in risk behaviour “lurks deep in the physiology of traders and investors”.
Novel genetic mutations cause low metabolic rate and obesity
25 October 2013Researchers believe the gene could be a useful therapeutic target for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes
Cause of rare growth disease discovered
24 June 2012Scientists hopeful discovery will provide a biological target for drug therapy.
Scientists identify protein that stimulates brown fat to burn calories
11 May 2012Protein highlights ‘ideal mechanism’ for development of new therapies to fight obesity.
Artificial pancreas promise for common diabetes complication
15 April 2011Cambridge research funded by the health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of an ‘artificial pancreas’ in preventing night-time hypoglycaemia in adults with Type 1 diabetes.
You are what your mother ate
21 March 2011Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring’s long term health.
Rethinking the secrets of life: a code upon a code
04 January 2009Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
