Engaging with Inuit communities
01 January 2009At first glance, reasons for researching locations as different as the Arctic and Mexico are not self-evident. But comparison is at the core of Social...
New hopes for the nervous system: Parkinson's disease
01 January 2009The way a common virus hijacks the cell it infects could hold the clue to combating Parkinson's disease.
A novel way to model endometriosis
01 January 2009A recently patented invention holds promise for understanding a debilitating disease that affects two million women in the UK.
New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis
01 January 2009Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.
Fashioning the value chain
01 January 2009Changes in the clothing industry have fashioned a new look for how manufacturing and retail is managed globally.
Freeze Frame: through the eyes of the polar explorers
01 January 2009An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.
Portus Project: bringing to life Trajan’s legacy
01 January 2009Excavation and geophysical survey are uncovering the secrets of an exceptionally diverse Imperial Roman landscape.
Iridescence enables bees to view flowers in different colours
23 December 2008Bees see some flowers in multicolour because of previously unknown iridescence of the petals, usually invisible to the human eye, researchers from the University of...
Culture under threat
11 December 2008The idea of culture is becoming synonymous with conflict and polarisation - and in the process putting some of the world's most precious heritage sites at...
Key to regulation of puberty discovered
11 December 2008A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the...