New technologies and strong academic-industry partnerships have the potential to change the face of therapeutic medicine.
Improvements in public health, education and medicine mean that our lives are much longer than at any point in human history. Thanks to studies of...
Surgeons could soon eavesdrop on a patient’s brain activity during surgery to remove their brain tumour, helping improve the accuracy of the...
Scientists hope that a new approach to vaccine development, combined with improved surveillance of potential future threats of outbreak, could help...
A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has identified a protein complex that might explain why some cancer patients treated with the...
A new institute at the University of Cambridge aims to revolutionise cancer care by using cutting edge analytics to maximize the use of big data sets...
Patients in intensive care units are at significant risk of potentially life-threatening secondary infections, including from antibiotic-resistant...
More research needs to be done to understand whether CRISPR-Cas9 – molecular ‘scissors’ that make gene editing a possibility – may inadvertently...
Business Secretary Greg Clark today announced funding for a series of ambitious technology projects that will transform the way medicines are...
Almost 30 years on from the discovery of the genetic defect that causes cystic fibrosis, treatment options are still limited and growing antibiotic...
The past few years has seen an explosion in the number of studies using organoids – so-called ‘mini organs’. While they can help scientists...
Scientists have shown in mice that skin cells re-programmed into brain stem cells, transplanted into the central nervous system, help reduce...
An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...
