A work of art has many lives
20 November 2012Eminent art historian and former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Philippe de Montebello will this week give two lectures that explore the multiple lives...
First randomised controlled trial to show spinal cord regeneration in dogs
19 November 2012Researchers have shown it is possible to restore co-ordinated limb movement in dogs with severe spinal cord injury (SCI).
Cambridge Labour Party: the first 100 years
17 November 2012Today (17 November) Douglas Alexander MP will be in Cambridge to launch a book that charts the first 100 years of the city’s Labour Party....
A tenth of quirky creature’s active genes are foreign
15 November 2012Believed to ‘ingest’ DNA from other simple organisms.
How a young Cambridge graduate changed the path of modern science
15 November 2012In 1912 a young graduate working in Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory made a breakthrough that represents the birth of x-ray crystallography. Professor Sir John Meurig...
£60 million boost for science innovation
15 November 2012Cambridge has received new funding as part of a £60m investment in UK universities to help encourage the development of new industrial collaborations, products and...
Bacterial DNA sequence used to map an infection outbreak
14 November 2012Researchers use genome sequencing to dissect and control an MRSA outbreak.
Awareness could eliminate inequalities in cancer diagnoses
13 November 2012Each year 5,600 patients are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage because of inequalities. Study underlines importance of awareness campaigns.
Supersymmetry squeezed as LHC spots ultra rare particle decay
13 November 2012Cambridge scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva, have spotted one of the rarest particle decays ever seen in nature.
Final letters mark centenary of Scott’s last march
12 November 2012A new collection of the last letters of Captain Scott and the Pole Party has been released to mark the centenary of the discovery of...