Future therapeutics

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Cambridge to lead new £50 million centre to study mitochondrial DNA diseases

05 Aug 2026

The Medical Research Council (MRC) has announced a £50 million investment in the new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mitochondrial Genome...

Potential new treatment to tackle commonest form of childhood cancer

20 May 2025

A combination of two drugs could improve outcomes and reduce the need for toxic chemotherapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL), the...

Eoin McKinney, Mihaela van der Schaar and Andres Floto

Opinion: AI can transform health and medicine

07 Apr 2025

AI has the potential to transform health and medicine. It won't be straightforward, but if we get it right, the benefits could be enormous. Andres...

Lab-grown ‘mini-guts’ could change how we treat Crohn’s disease

11 Jun 2024

Cambridge scientists have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play...

Baby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy

09 May 2024

A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was 11 months old at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in...

Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses

06 Dec 2023

Researchers have discovered that misreading of therapeutic mRNAs by the cell’s decoding machinery can cause an unintended immune response in the body...

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New vaccine technology could protect from future viruses and variants

25 Sep 2023

Studies of a ‘future-proof’ vaccine candidate have shown that just one antigen can be modified to provide a broadly protective immune response in...

Could this monster help you overcome anxiety?

29 Jul 2022

In 2017, Ninja Theory, advised by Cambridge academic Professor Paul Fletcher, took the gaming world by storm with Hellblade, which accurately depicted...

Collaboration could enable cancer patients to get faster and more personalised treatment

29 Nov 2021

GE Healthcare, the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals have agreed to collaborate on developing an application aiming to...

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Scientists identify 160 new drugs that could be repurposed against COVID-19

30 Jun 2021

Cambridge scientists have identified 200 approved drugs predicted to work against COVID-19 – of which only 40 are currently being tested in COVID-19...

Future therapeutics

Cambridge to lead new £50 million centre to study mitochondrial DNA diseases

Potential new treatment to tackle commonest form of childhood cancer

Opinion: AI can transform health and medicine

Lab-grown ‘mini-guts’ could change how we treat Crohn’s disease

Baby born deaf can hear after breakthrough gene therapy

Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful immune responses

New vaccine technology could protect from future viruses and variants

Could this monster help you overcome anxiety?

Collaboration could enable cancer patients to get faster and more personalised treatment

Scientists identify 160 new drugs that could be repurposed against COVID-19

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