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How mass testing helped limit the spread of COVID-19 at the University of Cambridge

01 Jun 2021

A combination of testing programmes for staff and students, infection control measures and genomic surveillance helped reduce the number of cases of...

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Testing kit

Cambridge institute publishes ethical framework for asymptomatic COVID-19 student testing in HE institutions

25 Feb 2021

The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute has today published an ethical framework for higher education institutions considering running...

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Unexpected experiences: Meet the volunteers behind the masks at the Cambridge Testing Centre

05 Oct 2020

They juggled their jobs and sacrificed sleep to volunteer at the Cambridge Testing Centre, a collaboration between the University, AstraZeneca and...

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“Behind every COVID-19 test sample is a person worried about their results”

04 Sep 2020

Meet the volunteer scientists who turn swab samples into diagnoses – again and again and again.

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Man taking COVID-19 test

Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients

02 Sep 2020

A Cambridge hospital has piloted the use of combined rapid point-of-care nucleic acid and antibody testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection after researchers...

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Unexpected experiences: Mike Weekes describes setting up a full-scale COVID-19 testing facility

27 Aug 2020

When infectious diseases expert Mike Weekes realised he and colleagues had know-how that could help protect staff, patients and students in a...

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Hospital staff

Testing suggests 3% of NHS hospital staff may be unknowingly infected with coronavirus

12 May 2020

Hospital staff may be carrying SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease, without realising they are infected, according to a study by...

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What makes a faster typist?

05 Apr 2018

The largest-ever dataset on typing speeds and styles, based on 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers, finds that the fastest typists not...

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Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy

21 Apr 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.

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Back to school (crop)

New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support

28 May 2015

The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational...

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Alzheimer’s test developed at Cambridge to be trialled by GPs

07 Sep 2011

Launch of first ever rapid, objectively-scored GP assessment to differentiate between patients with memory loss due to the earliest signs of...

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Brain scans

Test could detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier

16 May 2011

Innovation on the strength of a simple test identified in a new study would enable intervention before damage is done.

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