The neurobiologist who grew ‘mini-brain’ tissues in a dish
When Madeline Lancaster’s attempt to grow neural stem cells ‘failed’ she had no idea that the floating balls of cells she saw in her petri dish were in fact miniature brain tissues. They would revolutionise our ability to study the early stages of brain development and take us closer to answering: what makes us human?
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Cambridge PhD student heading to CERN for the International FameLab final
16 Jun 2025 Earlier this month, Cambridge PhD student Spatika Jayaram was crowned the winner of the FameLab 2025 UK final at this year’s Cheltenham Science...
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Record-breaking Cambridge Festival 2025 ends on a high, uniting 45,000 visitors in celebration of ideas, discovery and dialogue
10 Apr 2025 The fifth Cambridge Festival has drawn to a triumphant close, having welcomed a record-breaking 45,000 visitors across 385 events during 17 inspiring...
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HeLa: the cells that changed science
25 Feb 2021 Discover the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cells enabled a scientific revolution and contributed to numerous...
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World first as Bell Burnell pulsar chart goes on display
08 Mar 2019 Iconic object exhibited for the first time, alongside works by Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University Library.
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Bridging the divide: philosophy meets science
12 Jul 2018 A unique three-year project to bridge the divide between science and philosophy – which embedded early-career philosophers into some of Cambridge’s...
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Sir Isaac Newton’s Cambridge papers added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register
01 Dec 2017 The Cambridge papers of Sir Isaac Newton, including early drafts and Newton’s annotated copies of Principia Mathematica – a work that changed the...
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Believing is Seeing: a Cambridge Shorts film
09 Nov 2016 Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. The ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological...
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Opinion: Only by keeping close ties with Europe can UK research remain globally competitive
08 Aug 2016 Ash Amin (Department of Geography) and John Bell (Faculty of Law) discuss the importance of European research collaborations, and how they might...
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Understanding gravity - from Newton to Hawking
29 Apr 2016 The most important publication in the history of science – Isaac Newton’s own annotated copy of Principia Mathematica – and other seminal works by...
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