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Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test developed by Cambridge team to be deployed in hospitals

6 April 2020

A new rapid diagnostic test for COVID-19, developed by a University of Cambridge spinout company and capable of diagnosing the infection in under 90 minutes, is being deployed at Cambridge hospitals, ahead of being launched in hospitals nationwide. This is a game changer Sir Chris Hohn The SAMBA II machines, developed by...

Identification of viruses and bacteria could be sped up through computational methods

31 March 2020

A new multinational study has shown how the process of distinguishing viruses and bacteria could be accelerated through the use of computational methods. The researchers, led by the University of Edinburgh, with colleagues from Cambridge, London, Slovenia and China, used a combination of theoretical and experimental...

Cambridge research team working towards vaccine against COVID-19

20 March 2020

The race is on to find a vaccine against the new COVID-19 coronavirus. Professor Jonathan Heeney explains why a cautious approach is needed and how his team is using new technology developed for influenza and Ebola viruses to target the new infection. A vaccine strategy needs to be laser specific, targeting those domains...

World’s first artificial pancreas app licensed for people with type 1 diabetes in UK

20 March 2020

The world’s first licensed, downloadable artificial pancreas app for people with type 1 diabetes launches today, based on over a decade of research by Professor Roman Hovorka at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This is a major stepping stone towards providing widely...

Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia

20 March 2020

Inflammation in the brain may be more widely implicated in dementias than was previously thought, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge. The researchers say it offers hope for potential new treatments for several types of dementia. We predicted the link between inflammation in the brain and the build-up of...

Ground-breaking ceremony celebrates start of construction work on new Heart and Lung Research Institute in Cambridge

2 March 2020

The University of Cambridge and Royal Papworth Hospital held an official ground-breaking ceremony at the new Heart and Lung Research Institute (HLRI) in Cambridge earlier today. The Institute is based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and will create the largest cardiothoracic centre for research, education, industry...

Drug improves symptoms of autism by targeting brain’s chemical messengers

28 January 2020

Bumetanide – a prescription drug for oedema (the build-up of fluid in the body) – improves some of the symptoms in young children with autism spectrum disorders and has no significant side effects, confirms a new study from researchers in China and the UK. Published today in Translational Psychiatry , the study...

Magnetised molecules used to monitor breast cancer

23 January 2020

A new type of scan that involves magnetising molecules allows doctors to see in real-time which regions of a breast tumour are active, according to research at the University of Cambridge and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . This is one of the most detailed pictures of the metabolism of a...

Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk

16 December 2019

Proteins in our blood could in future help provide a comprehensive ‘liquid health check’, assessing our health and predicting the likelihood that we will we will develop a range of diseases, according to research published today in Nature Medicine . Proteins circulating in our blood are a manifestation of our genetic make-...

Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease

5 November 2019

A newly-discovered molecular mechanism that allows damaged adult liver cells to regenerate could pave the way for drugs to treat conditions such as cirrhosis or other chronic liver diseases where regeneration is impaired. We now understand how adult liver cells respond to the changes caused by tissue injury. This paves the...

Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test developed by Cambridge team to be deployed in hospitals

Identification of viruses and bacteria could be sped up through computational methods

Cambridge research team working towards vaccine against COVID-19

World’s first artificial pancreas app licensed for people with type 1 diabetes in UK

Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia

Ground-breaking ceremony celebrates start of construction work on new Heart and Lung Research Institute in Cambridge

Drug improves symptoms of autism by targeting brain’s chemical messengers

Magnetised molecules used to monitor breast cancer

Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk

Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease

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