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From exploring ancient ideas of generation to understanding new frontiers in fertility, Cambridge researchers are working across disciplines to study reproduction from multiple perspectives.

"Reproduction matters to us all": latest issue of Horizons magazine

20 November 2020

Professor Kathy Niakan talks about why it’s vital to take a multidisciplined approach to understanding the urgent challenges posed by reproduction today – and introduces our Spotlight on some of this work, highlighted in the latest issue of Cambridge's Horizons magazine.

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Foetus

Immune interaction optimises foetal nourishment during pregnancy

08 Feb 2011

Paternal genes advise maternal immune cells on how to build the best womb for developing foetuses, researchers have found.

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Children's building blocks

Amniocentesis: a key to identify autism in the womb?

04 Jan 2011

Cambridge researchers are pioneering a new test for autism in the womb, by measuring the levels of testosterone produced by the foetus, which makes...

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Roman votive offering

Doctor’s orders, Roman style

04 Jan 2011

Rebecca Flemming from the Faculty of Classics works with ancient texts on health and reproduction.

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blood pressure

Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope

07 Oct 2010

Scientists have discovered a mechanism which raises blood pressure in pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition which occurs during pregnancy.

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Bob Edwards

Professor Robert Edwards awarded Nobel Prize

04 Oct 2010

Professor Robert Edwards, Pensioner Fellow at Churchill College and Emeritus Professor of Human Reproduction at the University, was today awarded the...

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Hospital

Risk of death higher if born outside working week

15 Jul 2010

Babies born at night or at the weekend are at greater risk of dying due to lack of oxygen (anoxia) than those born during normal working hours...

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Primordial germ cells

Germ cells: the route to immortality

01 Apr 2009

How do cells become equipped to generate a whole new organism?

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Placenta

The balance between mother and fetus in ‘no-man’s-land’

01 Apr 2009

New insights into pregnancy are resulting from research on the interaction between mother and fetus at the placental interface.

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Diabetes

Obesity and diabetes in pregnancy: a vicious circle?

01 Apr 2009

A complex interplay of prenatal and postnatal factors determines the risk of childhood obesity and diabetes during later life.

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'Life Race'

A boost for family research

25 Mar 2009

A team studying the psychological well-being of children created by assisted reproduction has been awarded a prize for their work.

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Children Playing at Greenwich park 3

Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits

13 Jan 2009

Research at Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the...

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large chromosomes

Rethinking the secrets of life: a code upon a code

04 Jan 2009

Epigenetics is taking the biomedical research world by storm; three Cambridge scientists use examples from their own research to explain why.

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