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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Adrian Liston

17 Mar 2024

Adrian Liston, Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, talks about our extraordinary immune system ahead of his event, Diversity in...

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Killer T cell attacking a cancer cell

Mito warriors: how T cell assassins reload their weapons to kill and kill again

14 Oct 2021

Cambridge researchers have discovered how T cells – an important component of our immune system – are able to keep on killing as they hunt down and...

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Sheffield's Women of Steel - COVID-19: We can beat this

Cambridge to lead national consortium examining immune response to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus

28 Aug 2020

The University of Cambridge and Royal Papworth Hospital have secured £1.5million of funding as part of the national effort by UK immunologists to...

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Inflammation links heart disease and depression, study finds

19 Mar 2019

People with heart disease are more likely to suffer from depression, and the opposite is also true. Now, scientists at the University of Cambridge...

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'Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza

18 Sep 2018

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford have discovered a new molecule that plays a key role in the immune response...

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3D print of HIV (edited)

Study clears important hurdle towards developing an HIV vaccine

13 Sep 2017

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a way of overcoming one of the major stumbling blocks that has prevented the development of a...

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Hand showing leprosy

Leprosy turns the immune system against itself, study finds

23 Aug 2017

Leprosy hijacks our immune system, turning an important repair mechanism into one that causes potentially irreparable damage to our nerve cells...

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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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Depressing fog

Anti-inflammatory drugs could help treat symptoms of depression, study suggests

18 Oct 2016

Anti-inflammatory drugs similar to those used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some...

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Diabetes (rotated)

New approach to treating type 1 diabetes aims to limit damage caused by our own immune system

11 Oct 2016

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have taken the first step towards developing a new form of treatment for type 1 diabetes which, if...

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‘Clogged-up’ immune cells help explain smoking risk for TB

24 Mar 2016

Smoking increases an individual’s risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) – and makes the infection worse – because it causes vital immune cells to...

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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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