Tackling COVID-19: Dr Olivier Restif
23 April 2020“We have been expecting a pandemic like this for nearly twenty years,” says Olivier Restif, who uses mathematical modelling to understand how infectious diseases spread...
UK and US firms ‘lag’ in race to commercialise COVID-19 diagnostic tests
22 April 2020The diagnostic industry in countries such as Germany, South Korea and China lead the pack on getting coronavirus tests ready for market. Researchers warn that...
Opinion: Local food solutions during the coronavirus crisis could have lasting benefits
22 April 2020Solutions found during the current pandemic could benefit food security, human security, & international development.
Almost a quarter of adults living under lockdown in the UK have experienced loneliness
22 April 2020One in four adults (24 per cent) in the UK have felt lonely because of coronavirus, according to a longitudinal study that is tracking mental...
Women bear brunt of coronavirus economic shutdown in UK and US
21 April 2020New data shows women and people who did not go to university are more likely to have lost work and earnings since mid-March.
COVID-19 severity associated with increased levels of air pollution in England, preliminary study finds
21 April 2020Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found an association between living in an area of England with high levels of air pollution and the...
Open-source ventilator designed by Cambridge team for use in low- and middle-income countries
20 April 2020In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at the University of Cambridge has designed an open-source ventilator in partnership with local clinicians, engineers and...
The sequencing of COVID-19
17 April 2020Labs across the country have converted to the genetic sequencing of coronavirus samples to help track its mutation and spread. The initiative, COG-UK, is being...
Leading European cancer centres share guidance on making their operations ‘pandemic proof’
16 April 2020Seven of Europe’s leading cancer centres have today published a report detailing how they have organized their healthcare systems at an unprecedented scale and pace...
Shedding light on dark traps
16 April 2020Researchers pinpoint the origin of defects that sap the performance of next-generation solar technology.