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Cambridge scientists have received funding to create a cheap, portable device that could detect avian flu and even prevent bioterrorism, using sensors a tenth the size of a grain of salt

Professor Mary Jacobus, Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, is to take up the post of Director of the Centre of Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) in January 2006.

Existing medical implants are, in the main, merely tolerated by the surrounding tissue. The Cambridge Centre for Medical Materials (CCMM) at the University of Cambridge Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy researches the next generation of medical materials which interact therapeutically with the body, having bioactive structures which encourage the tissue’s natural function, as well as, for example, providing tailored mechanical support, or releasing drugs at a controlled rate. The group has a strong track record in the fields of skeletal implants, medical prostheses and devices, drug delivery systems, tissue engineering, bioceramics and bioactive coatings and resorbable and stable polymers for implantation.

The ancestry of modern Europeans is clearer than ever before thanks to the collaborative work of archaeologists and geneticists from the Universities of Cambridge, Mainz (Germany), and Tartu (Estonia).