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The University of Cambridge is a Leader in Openness, recognised for 'the innovation and courage shown by individuals and the organisation in supporting greater openness around the use of animals in research'.

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Portrait #122 - Coline - While she was smoking (cropped)

Old before your time: Study suggests that ageing begins in the womb

01 Mar 2016

The process of ageing begins even before we are born, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge. In a study...

Highway to addiction: how drugs and alcohol can hijack your brain

25 Feb 2016

The discovery of a brain circuit ‘shortcut’ could explain why some addicts unintentionally relapse, and suggests that a shift in focus for therapies...

Spinal injury and ‘biorobotic control’ of the bladder

16 Feb 2016

There are many challenges facing people with spinal cord injury – and walking again is often the least of their problems. Cambridge research could...

Actin cables in Drosophila nurse cells during late-oogenesis. At this stage, nurse cells die and extrude their cytoplasm into the developing oocyte.

Opinion: How fruit flies can help keep African scientists at home

15 Feb 2016

Timothy Weil (Department of Zoology) and Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo (University of Bath) discuss the project that aims to make the fruit fly a model...

Graphene shown to safely interact with neurons in the brain

29 Jan 2016

Researchers have shown that graphene can be used to make electrodes that can be implanted in the brain, which could potentially be used to restore...

Cocaine addiction: Scientists discover ‘back door’ into the brain

12 Jan 2016

Individuals addicted to cocaine may have difficulty in controlling their addiction because of a previously-unknown ‘back door’ into the brain...

Mouse embryo yolk sac with human pluripotent stem cells (green) incorporated

Stem cells likely to be safe for use in regenerative medicine, study confirms

18 Dec 2015

Cambridge researchers have found the strongest evidence to date that human pluripotent stem cells – cells that can give rise to all tissues of the...

Even without lungs, zebrafish help us study TB

25 Nov 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, Z is for...

Stored fat fights against the body’s attempts to lose weight

24 Nov 2015

The fatter we are, the more our body appears to produce a protein that inhibits our ability to burn fat, suggests new research published in the...

Here’s looking at ewe: Samuel Palmer and his watercolour sheep

07 Oct 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, S is for...

Naked Mole-Rats: are these rodents immune to cancer?

02 Sep 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, N is for...

Jays: the birds that can talk like humans

05 Aug 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, J is for Jay...

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