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The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced a £20 million investment in a new Pre-clinical Translational Models Hub, led by Cambridge, which will transform the development and testing of new medicines using human-based models and artificial intelligence.

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. 

Differences in cellular pathway activity flip the switch from nocturnality to diurnality and explain a major evolutionary change humans have undergone.

Nine outstanding Cambridge scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

The nine Cambridge researchers were all selected for their exceptional contributions to science.

With a £10 million grant awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Cambridge is to establish a new research centre dedicated to exploring the nature and extent of life in the Universe.

A new study shows it’s theoretically possible. The hypothesis could be tested soon with proposed Venus-bound missions.

Cambridge scientists are among the new Fellows announced today by the Royal Society.

Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist.