The ten organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have released their annual statistics today.
Many men who have sex with men remain unaware of the growing risk posed by sexually transmitted Shigella, say researchers, as a new study shows variants are spreading quickly in the UK and evolving resistance to key antibiotics.
Bumblebees collect up to seven times the amount of toxic heavy metals as honeybees even when foraging in the same environment, new research from the University of Cambridge has discovered. Exposure to these metals can affect everything from their ability to forage for food to their ability to reproduce.
At a time when 'being green' matters more than ever, a team of Cambridge researchers has devised a way to power electronic devices that's taken the brief quite literally.
First of its kind Cambridge Showcase demonstrates commitment to addressing climate and biodiversity crises
Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how her 56-hour marathon opened up the mysterious life of fungi.
Global changes are driving the emergence of dangerous new infectious diseases and accelerating their spread. Cambridge scientists are working to stay one step ahead - and stop potential pandemics in their tracks.
More than 140 Cambridge researchers will share their efforts to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises at the inaugural Cambridge Climate & Nature Research Showcase on Friday.
Scientists have, for the first time, used an extremely precise genome editing technique called base editing to study gene function in human embryos. They found that a gene called NANOG is essential for forming the future body from an embryo.
Researchers have reconstructed the earliest known plague genomes, and shown for the first time that early forms of plague caused deadly outbreaks long before the Black Death killed up to half the population of Europe.
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