Understanding how cancer cells grow
04 January 2010Cambridge scientists are asking what role stem cells play in how cancer develops, spreads and relapses.
Strategic research partnership drives materials science research and training
01 January 2010Rolls-Royce and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will work jointly with the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Swansea in a new £50 million...
A new model for industrial–academic partnership
01 January 2010PneumaCare, the first company to receive funding from the University of Cambridge Discovery Fund, is a new model for utilising academic expertise.
Beacons of life and death: chromatin and cancer
01 January 2010A new generation of cancer therapeutics is on the horizon thanks to fresh light being shed on how genes are switched on and off.
Evidence of the first modern humans in North Africa
01 January 2010Excavation of the deepest archaeological trench in North Africa half a century after it was first dug is offering a glimpse of up to 200,000...
Famine’s changing face
01 January 2010Dr Zoltán Tiba’s research on why famines happen is posing questions about the root causes and possible long-term interventions.
The future of books
01 January 2010The book publishing industry has gone through more change during the past few decades than in any comparable period in its 500-year history. Professor John...
Le bon usage: using French correctly
01 January 2010The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons...
The educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia
01 January 2010For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.
New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease
01 December 2009A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.