Cool Machines
10 April 2009At about a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, a machine built by the Cold Atoms Group at the Cavendish Laboratory is one of...
Cambridge research puts new test for sickle cell disease on horizon
03 April 2009A new method for diagnosing sickle cell disease has been found by researchers from Cambridge and Oxford Universities. This new test would be cheaper and...
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
02 April 2009Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently...
Completing the jigsaw: multidrug resistance in bacteria
01 April 2009The discovery of an elusive pump component opens up new avenues to understand and combat multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Obesity and diabetes in pregnancy: a vicious circle?
01 April 2009A complex interplay of prenatal and postnatal factors determines the risk of childhood obesity and diabetes during later life.
Germ cells: the route to immortality
01 April 2009How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?
The balance between mother and fetus in ‘no-man’s-land’
01 April 2009New insights into pregnancy are resulting from research on the interaction between mother and fetus at the placental interface.
Gender equality in modern times
01 April 2009The largest multidisciplinary research network of its kind in the UK is investigating why gender equality is still a pressing social issue in the 21st...
Prostate screening may have benefits
01 April 2009Cambridge University scientists have shown that screening for prostate cancer using prostate specific antigen (PSA) would lead to a reduction in advanced stage prostate cancer...
Cambridge gene hunters find two new breast cancer genes
30 March 2009Two new regions of the human genome linked to breast cancer have been found by an international team of scientists led by Cambridge University researchers;...