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New technologies and strong academic-industry partnerships have the potential to change the face of therapeutic medicine.

Sphygmomanometer

Old drug performs new tricks

21 Sep 2015

Patients with the most dangerous type of high blood pressure will be able to receive far more effective treatment after Cambridge-led research...

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Study participant Daniel Walls, 12

New study shows artificial pancreas works for length of entire school term

17 Sep 2015

Technology assisting people with type 1 diabetes edges closer to perfection.

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Cambridge Advanced Training Programme

‘Brain training’ app may improve memory and daily functioning in schizophrenia

03 Aug 2015

A ‘brain training’ iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia...

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Lab tubes (cropped)

Cambridge researchers and pharma in innovative new consortium to develop and study early stage drugs

28 Jul 2015

An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of...

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A chest X-ray demonstrating severe COPD (cropped)

MRC, GSK and five leading UK universities collaborate to crack difficult disease areas

15 Jul 2015

Cambridge has been part of a successful £16 million bid to work with the MRC, GSK and four other UK universities in a unique open innovation research...

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Astrazeneca and Cambridge announce new joint PhD and clinical research scholarships

30 Jun 2015

AstraZeneca and the University of Cambridge today announced three new joint schemes to support more than 80 PhD scholarships and eight clinical...

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Brain coral

Study suggests new treatment for impulsivity in some dementia patients

25 Jun 2015

Restoring the low levels of the chemical serotonin may help improve brain function and reduce impulsivity in some dementia patients, according to...

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Lung model

Hope for first treatment targeting cause of debilitating heart and lung disease

17 Jun 2015

A protein that targets the effects of a faulty gene could offer the first treatment targeting the major genetic cause of pulmonary arterial...

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DNA/protein function finder from the Wellcome Trust, Sanger Institute, emblebi and YourGenome

The Big Dating Game

09 Jun 2015

When is a rare disease not a rare disease? The answer: when big data gets involved. An ambitious new research project aims to show patients that they...

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Killer T-Cell

Body’s ‘serial killers’ captured on film destroying cancer cells

19 May 2015

A dramatic video has captured the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells – the body’s ‘serial killers’ – as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells before...

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Baby toes stretch (cropped)

Blood markers could help predict outcome of infant heart surgery

06 May 2015

New research suggests it may be possible to predict an infant’s progress following surgery for congenital heart disease by analysing a number of...

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Artificial pancreas

World first for artificial pancreas team

30 Apr 2015

The first natural birth to a mother with diabetes who has been fitted with an artificial pancreas took place this week. The device has been developed...

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