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Back to BRCA: the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene

07 October 2024

In 1994, a landmark paper identified a gene – BRCA1 – that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers when faulty. Thirty years on, we look at the major impact it has had on how we understand and treat cancer – and why there is still much to learn.

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Mental Health Overhaul: probing the processes behind the symptoms

04 Oct 2024

A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders

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Jan Steen, Mother and Child (17th-century painting). Image courtesy of York Museums Trust

Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal

03 Oct 2024

A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while battling their...

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What does it take to make a better battery?

01 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green...

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Endless Stories at Cambridge University Library

26 Sep 2024

Centuries-old Asian and African manuscripts go on display for the first time

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Plane lands at dusk

Flight path to net zero

22 Sep 2024

Global aviation could be on a flight path to net zero if industry and governments reach just four goals by 2030, according to a new report from the...

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Highly-sensitive beaks could help albatrosses and penguins find their food

18 Sep 2024

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to...

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The Jungle Book proofs come to Cambridge

05 Sep 2024

'Exceptional accumulation of manuscripts and proofs' have a new home at Cambridge University Library

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Super Saturday Open Cambridge trail

03 Sep 2024

Are you free on Saturday 7 September? If so, why not spend the day walking around our beautiful city and popping along to some Open Cambridge events.

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Open Cambridge kicks off on Friday with a programme of free and unique events for all

02 Sep 2024

One of the region's largest heritage festivals begins on Friday 6 September with over 70 events covering walks, talks, open spaces, exhibitions and...

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Dr Arik Kershenbaum in Girton

Why animals talk

28 Aug 2024

Dr Arik Kershenbaum listens to wolves, gibbons and dolphins to reveal the messages they send one another. His work challenges our assumptions about...

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A colour-enhanced image showing a clump of prostate cancer cells

Together against prostate cancer

13 Aug 2024

New, repurposed and combined treatments could soon transform prostate cancer outcomes, with DNA repair research informing promising clinical trials...

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The mink must go: ending a catastrophic UK invasion

13 Aug 2024

Many have said it's an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink - the lasting...

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