Lethal weapon: bacteria’s high-risk suicide strategy
24 December 2012New research shows how some bacterial cells keep a ‘suicide complex’ ready to hand at all times.
World-leading cancer expert to head-up Cambridge Institute
21 December 2012The University of Cambridge and Cancer Research UK have appointed Professor Simon Tavaré to be the next director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.
Cambridge researchers support the WHO
20 December 2012A newly designated Collaborating Centre at the University of Cambridge will support the World Health Organization (WHO) in detecting and responding to major epidemic- and...
Changing our material future, layer by layer
20 December 2012Researchers are aiming to develop a new class of materials with remarkable properties using one atom-thick substances such as graphene and other two dimensional crystals...
Ants aquaplaning on a pitcher plant
19 December 2012A Venezuelan pitcher plant uses wettable hairs to make insects slip into its deadly traps.
The drugs don’t work
19 December 2012Drugs that do not represent value for money or are medically unproven may be increasingly reaching one of Europe’s largest pharmaceutical markets, according to research...
Hair loss prevention product wins national biotech award
19 December 2012A team of aspiring biotechnology entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge has won the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) 2012.
Mind the Gap – Exploring New Dimensions of Inequality
18 December 2012A new study of gender and employment has found that women’s status in the workforce is rising faster than men’s, but men on average still...
Schizophrenia linked to social inequality
14 December 2012Urban neighbourhoods with high deprivation, population density and inequality found to have higher rates of schizophrenia.
Heroic Age campsite location discovered near summit of Antarctic volcano
14 December 2012A century after members of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition climbed Mount Erebus, the University of Cambridge’s Professor Clive Oppenheimer has located their highest campsite.