The Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre is a unique venture that brings together scientists and doctors from Cambridge University and Cambridge’s Addenbrookes Hospital for the development of new treatments for patients with brain disorders.
Cambridge researchers are pioneering a new test for autism in the womb, by measuring the levels of testosterone produced by the foetus, which makes its way into the amniotic fluid. They hope to test if children who later develop autism have unusually high levels of testosterone between 12 and 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Professor Daniel Wolpert at Cambridge’s Department of Engineering has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant to study the computations the brain performs when controlling our movements.
Rebecca Flemming from the Faculty of Classics works with ancient texts on health and reproduction.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Alison Richard on how new buildings and refurbishments across the University are helping research to flourish.
Six Cambridge academics have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
'Mischief: sculptures and drawings by Lucia Nogueira' - opens at Kettle's Yard on January 15, running until March 13, 2011.
This year’s festive window display at the Cambridge University Press Bookshop has received such interest from the public, the Press has decided to hold a silent auction for the sculptures and donate the money to charity.
Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an international team of astronomers.
Maurice V. Wilkes, who died in 2010 aged 97, was one of the most important figures in the development of practical computing in the UK.
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