Academia & Research
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Addenbrooke’s pioneers NHS-first skin cancer treatment
Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge has become the first NHS centre to pioneer a new generation of immunotherapy for patients with an aggressive form... Read More
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Discovery of high geothermal heat at South Pole
Scientists have discovered an area near the South Pole where the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet is melting unexpectedly quickly. Using... Read More
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Google chips in as Raspberry Pi consortium secures £78m for STEM initiative
The Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge is part of a consortium that has secured more than £78 million in government funding to make sure every... Read More
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LED pioneer tops parade of nextgen Cambridge tech entrepreneurs
Poro Technologies, which is developing next-generation LED (Light Emitting Diode) technology, won the £20,000 first prize in the 2018 Cambridge... Read More
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Cambridge software drafted in for battle against malaria
Software from Optibrium in Cambridge is being deployed by students at Nottingham University collaborating with pharma giant GSK to find potential... Read More
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Scientists aim to sequence DNA of every living thing
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge recently announced that they had created the first comprehensive summary of all genes known... Read More
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‘Body on a chip’ vision takes a step closer to reality
Researchers, led by the University of Cambridge have developed a 3D ‘organ on a chip’ which enables real-time continuous monitoring of cells and... Read More
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Robotic boat being created for Antarctic research
Researchers at the University of East Anglia are helping to design a robotic boat that can not only survive the extreme environment of the Antarctic... Read More
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Cambridge cancer scientists out to stop march of the mutants
Cambridge scientists hope that targeted diagnostic tests could be developed for earlier detection of oesophageal cancer as a result of a major... Read More
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Nobel Prize winner hails new cohort of Cambridge tech innovators
Three exciting new technologies created by Cambridge University student entrepreneurs have won crucial funding and scale-up support from Trinity... Read More
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Cambridge team invents personalised brain tumour operations
Scientists and clinicians in Cambridge have developed a technique to eavesdrop on a patient’s brain during tumour surgery – improving the accuracy of... Read More
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Artificial Intelligence could forecast wars and save lives and money
Artificial Intelligence could hold the key to accurately predicting conflict – a move which would save both lives and money, according to UK... Read More
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Eagle and Microsoft explore new frontier for genomics discovery with AI microbiome technology
Eagle Genomics in Cambridge UK has become the first partner for Microsoft in groundbreaking microbiomic research into immune disorders and antibiotic... Read More
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Roots of dementia could be found in embryos developing in the womb
Cambridge University researchers and colleagues believe the roots of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s could be traced... Read More
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Cambridge antibody antidote to snake venom progressing well
Cambridge technology is helping to progress human antibodies that neutralise elements of black mamba snake toxin in an in vivo model. IONTAS... Read More
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Cranfield University ramps autonomous systems capability
Cranfield University has unveiled plans for a world-leading Professorship in Autonomous Systems and AI, sponsored by BAE Systems – a technology... Read More
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Cambridge PhD pushes the driverless boat out
A system that will allow driverless boats to talk with humans through radios to make sure they stay safe has earned its Cambridge inventor an £80,000... Read More
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Qualcomm STEM support on a different planet!
Team members from US tech giant Qualcomm Technologies International supported a STEM education initiative which is part of the IET FIRST® LEGO®... Read More
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Nobel Prize for Greg Winter as Cambridge notches another success
Genetic engineer Sir Greg Winter has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to maintain a record-breaking run for affiliates of Cambridge University... Read More
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Arm and Raspberry Pi join forces to reboot school computing initiative
A drive to ‘educate’ more teachers in computing and boost the numbers of STEM students has been launched by Cambridge technology icons Arm and... Read More