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A habitable planet for healthy humans

13 Dec 2023

Cambridge Zero symposium gathers researchers to examine the connections between planetary and public health.

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Carbon-omics and global health

17 Nov 2023

Cambridge Zero to host two research symposia to discuss critical climate change challenges

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The virologist helping us to stay one step ahead of infectious diseases

10 Aug 2021

An established virologist specialising in the field of HIV drug-resistance, Ravi Gupta pivoted his expertise to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Over...

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Open-source ventilator designed by Cambridge team for use in low- and middle-income countries

20 Apr 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at the University of Cambridge has designed an open-source ventilator in partnership with local...

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Food and drinks industry uses non-profit organisation to campaign against public health policies, study finds

03 Jun 2019

A new study shows how a non-profit research organisation has been deployed by its backers from major food and beverage corporations to push industry-...

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Contracts give Coca-Cola power to ‘quash’ health research, study suggests

08 May 2019

New study of FOI documents uncovers provisions that could allow the beverage giant to suppress findings from health science it funds at North...

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Cambridge researchers join new initiative on urban air pollution

25 Jun 2018

Cambridge researchers are part of a cutting-edge project unveiled by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan last week to better understand Londoners’ exposure to...

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Breath of life: how your risk of heart disease may stem back to your time in the womb

11 Jul 2017

Smoking, lack of exercise, bad diet and our genes are all well-known risk factors for heart disease, cancer and diabetes. But, as researchers are...

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The self-defence force awakens

04 Jul 2017

Our immune systems are meant to keep us healthy, but sometimes they turn their fire on us, with devastating results. Immunotherapies can help defend...

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Milner Therapeutics Institute: a drug discovery ecosystem

28 Jun 2017

Tony Kouzarides is passionate about ecosystems: well-balanced communities that flourish on mutual and dynamic interactions. But the ecosystems that...

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The bug hunters and the microbiome

21 Jun 2017

Trevor Lawley and Gordon Dougan are bug hunters, albeit not the conventional kind. The bugs they collect are invisible to the naked eye. And even...

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Apollo's mission to drive therapeutic innovation

20 Jun 2017

The stirrings of a revolution are starting to ripple through hundreds of laboratories. It’s a revolution that aims to result in new medicines –...

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