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New research shows clear association between ACE inhibitors - drugs used to...
Cambridge scientists have found an association between ACE inhibitors (and similar drugs) and acute kidney injury - a sudden deterioration in kidney function. The research is published today, 06...
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Never too young to talk about death?
Should we talk to children about death, and if so when, and how? It’s hard enough discussing it with other adults. Death is unfamiliar to most of us, even though we see it acted on our TV screens, and...
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Designer piercings
The new approach, which uses self-assembling DNA building blocks to build artificial gateways through cell membranes, provides a simple and low cost tool for synthetic biology. Details of the technique...
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Outstanding audience participation at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas
The Festival, which ended on Sunday, culminated in another weekend bursting with events, including a lively debate on immigration that saw hundreds of attendees packed into Lady Mitchell Hall on the...
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CS Lewis: 50 years after his death a new scholarship will honour his literary...
The author CS Lewis, best known to the general public for his children’s classics The Chronicles of Narnia, died 50 years ago on 22 November. He was much more than a children’s author: he was also a...
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Rescuing normality: Day-to-day life inside Japan’s disaster shelters
Cambridge academic Dr Brigitte Steger’s unique account of shelter life is chronicled in the just-published Japan Copes with Calamity, a collection of articles covering the rebuilding of the disaster...
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Sleepwalking into the Euro nightmare
Professor Jesper Jespersen, an economics expert and visiting overseas fellow at Churchill College, will use his lecture ‘A European Nightmare: How could the economists be so wrong on the Euro?’ to...
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Cambridge University Press India collaborates with Indian Institute of Science
The books will be written by eminent academicians, researchers and subject experts in science, technology and engineering. A total of 15 academic titles will be published over a span of three years,...
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Scrubbing up: preparing hospitals for climate change
“The scale of the problem is huge. We have until 2050 by the obligations under the Climate Change Act to get our emissions down by 80% from what they are now, and we don’t know how to do that.”These...
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‘Light skin’ gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population
The genetic mutation in SLC24A5 is known to be pivotal in the evolution of light skin, and is responsible for a significant part of the skin colour differences between Europeans and Africans.Now, a new...
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Buildings for books: the complete story of the library
In 1975 archaeologists investigating the palace of the ancient city of Elba in Syria uncovered a room containing fragments of some 15,000 inscribed tablets. The shelves that once held them had...
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Building ‘nanomachines’ in biological outer space
Cambridge scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which bacteria build their surface propellers (flagella) – the long extensions that allow them to swim towards food and away from danger. The...
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Two for one in solar power
Solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest abundant, renewable energy. Although the highest energy light occurs in the ultraviolet and visible spectrum, most solar energy is in the infrared.There is...
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Mountains and mankind: a public event will explore environmental change
A group of experts with personal and contrasting experiences of some of the world’s most breathtakingly beautiful and extreme environments will be taking part in a public discussion, ‘Mountaineering in...
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Scientists finally discover which prostate cancers are life-threatening
The study, published in Oncogene today (Monday), found much higher levels of the protein, NAALADL2, in prostate cancer tissue compared with healthy tissue. The difference was especially marked in...
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Fruit bat population covering central Africa is carrier of two deadly viruses
The study, conducted jointly by the University of Cambridge and the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology and published today in the journal Nature Communications, found that the...
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Synaesthesia is more common in autism
Synaesthesia involves people experiencing a ‘mixing of the senses’, for example, seeing colours when they hear sounds, or reporting that musical notes evoke different tastes. Autism is diagnosed when...
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Dr Frederick Sanger has died, age 95
A pioneer of DNA sequencing, he started his scientific career by reading Natural Sciences as an undergraduate at St John’s College, Cambridge. He subsequently undertook a PhD, completed in 1943 with a...
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Twenty top tips for interpreting scientific claims
Scientists from the UK and Australia, concerned with the lack of scientific knowledge amongst key decision makers, have created 20 concepts to help those who interact regularly with science and...
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Research reveals details of how flu evolves to escape immunity
Scientists have identified a potential way to improve future flu vaccines after discovering that seasonal flu typically escapes immunity from vaccines with as little as a single amino acid...
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