Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits
13 January 2009Research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the development...
Traders’ biology may play a bigger role than their rationality
13 January 2009Financial traders' success may depend more on their biological traits than on their ability to make rational choices, researchers at the University of Cambridge have...
Revolutionising the understanding of the early social fabric of Cambridge
09 January 2009A new book published by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) suggests that population density in the later prehistoric / Roman Cambridge area may have been...
Rethinking the secrets of life: a code upon a code
04 January 2009Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.
Prenatal origins of heart disease
04 January 2009Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.
Making visible embryos
04 January 2009A new online exhibition explores the visual culture of embryology as part of a research initiative on the history of reproduction.
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.