Experts urge government to keep focus on levelling-up health
30 September 2022Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on ‘levelling-up’ health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.
Nobel Laureates of Cambridge
30 September 2022What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner...
Traumatic brain injury ‘remains a major global health problem’ say experts
30 September 2022A new report highlights the advances and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research in traumatic brain injury, a leading cause of injury-related death and...
Breakthrough in understanding of how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
29 September 2022Cambridge scientists have discovered that cancer cells ‘hijack’ a process used by healthy cells to spread around the body, completely changing current ways of thinking...
New evidence for liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars
29 September 2022An international team of researchers has revealed new evidence for the possible existence of liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
Set up reserve lab capacity now for faster response to next pandemic, say researchers
28 September 2022Researchers say a ‘human bottleneck’, due to historical cuts in public health funding, delayed the UK’s scale-up of COVID-19 testing in the early stages of...
Seawater could have provided phosphorous required for emerging life
27 September 2022The problem of how phosphorus became a universal ingredient for life on Earth may have been solved by researchers from the University of Cambridge and...
Cambridge recognised for its leadership in knowledge exchange
27 September 2022Cambridge’s leadership in knowledge exchange has been recognised in today's Knowledge Exchange Framework 2 (KEF2) results, published by Research England. Cambridge secured the highest performance...
Shaking the dinosaur family tree: how did ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs evolve?
21 September 2022Researchers have conducted a new analysis of the origins of ‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs – the group which includes iconic species such as Triceratops – and found...
Inside the new institute looking at early cancer
21 September 2022Today sees the launch of the Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge. Its mission is deceptively simple: to detect cancer early enough to cure it.
