Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
23 July 2021Scientists have created plants whose cells and tissues ‘blush’ with beetroot pigments when they are colonised by fungi that help them take up nutrients from the soil.
Smartphone screens effective sensors for soil or water contamination
22 July 2021The touchscreen technology used in billions of smartphones and tablets could also be used as a powerful sensor, without the need for any modifications.
Scientists reverse age-related memory loss in mice
22 July 2021Scientists at Cambridge and Leeds have successfully reversed age-related memory loss in mice and say their discovery could lead to the development of treatments to prevent memory loss in people as they age.
Llama ‘nanobodies’ could hold key to preventing deadly post-transplant infection
22 July 2021Scientists have developed a ‘nanobody’ – a small fragment of a llama antibody – that is capable of chasing out human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as it hides away from the immune system. This then enables immune cells to seek out and destroy this potentially deadly virus.
World's poorest children missing out on pre-primary education
21 July 2021Eight in 10 of the world’s poorest children – almost 50 million boys and girls – are missing out on vital education in the first few years of their life because of a chronic lack of funding in pre-primary education, according to a new report published today.
Museum of Zoology displays ceramic art to explore Earth's 'breaking points'
21 July 2021The museum's reopening exhibition uses the fragility of fired clay to throw attention back on to ecological decline, ecosystem collapse and environmental change
Biological ‘fingerprints’ of long COVID in blood could lead to diagnostic test, say Cambridge scientists
19 July 2021Markers in our blood – ‘fingerprints’ of infection – could help identify individuals who have been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, several months after infection even if the individual had only mild symptoms or showed no symptoms at all, say Cambridge researchers.
University of Cambridge launches roadmap to support future growth of life sciences cluster
16 July 2021Connect: Health Tech, the University of Cambridge Enterprise Zone, has today launched a roadmap, ‘Creating a University Enterprise Zone for Cambridge across the life and physical sciences’, that examines the challenges faced in futureproofing and sustaining the growth of the life sciences cluster to maintain Cambridge as a global centre of excellence for health tech.
Monitoring the Meerkats of the Kalahari
16 July 2021Getting close was a challenge. Cracking it was key to an incredible 30-year study of the wild meerkats of the Kalahari.
Top UK organisations release annual statistics for use of animals in research
15 July 2021The ten organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures – those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have today released their annual statistics.
