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Male Eurasian jay

Male Eurasian jays know that their female partners’ desires can differ from their own

26 Mar 2014

New research shows that male jays are able to disengage from their own current desires to feed their female partner food that she wants.

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Social learning in baboons

To boldly go – how personality predicts social learning in baboons

11 Mar 2014

Like other social animals, baboons learn from each other about which foods are best to eat. Now, researchers at Cambridge have found that how well...

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Mini-livers show promise to reduce animal use in science

26 Feb 2014

Cambridge research that has for the first time successfully grown “mini-livers” from adult mouse stem cells has won the UK’s international prize for...

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Jackdaw

The eyes have it

05 Feb 2014

Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other – the first time this has been shown...

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Left: pancreatic cancer cells (in green) Right: after six days of combined tumour immunotherapy, the cancerous cells had been killed.

Breaking down cancer’s defence mechanisms

20 Dec 2013

Researchers have identified how the ‘wall’ around cancer tumours functions and how to break it down, enabling the body’s own defences to reach and...

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Sheep with backpacks

GPS backpacks reveal sheep flocking strategy

25 Jul 2012

UK researchers have shown for the first time that instead of fleeing randomly when faced with danger, sheep head straight for the centre of the flock...

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Top images diseased liver cells, bottom images healthy liver cells

Artificial liver cells win their creator prize for their potential to reduce animal experiments

28 Feb 2012

Cambridge research that created liver cells from stem cells has today been recognised with a national prize by the National Centre for the...

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sheep

Shear brain power - sheep smarter than previously believed

14 Mar 2011

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that sheep are more intelligent than previously believed.

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