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Intensive farming may actually reduce risk of pandemics, experts argue
In the wake of COVID-19, many have pointed to modern industrial farms with tightly-packed livestock as potential hothouses for further pandemics caused by "zoonotic" diseases: those transmitted from...
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Chance to find out more about pioneering Cambridge Maths School at open days
The new specialist, state-funded sixth form - opening in Mill Road, Cambridge, in September 2023 – is being developed in partnership with the University of Cambridge, where the open days will be...
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Highly antibiotic-resistant strain of MRSA that arose in pigs can jump to humans
The strain, called CC398, has become the dominant type of MRSA in European livestock in the past fifty years. It is also a growing cause of human MRSA infections.The study found that CC398 has...
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Maternal microbiome promotes healthy development of the baby
A new study has found that a species of gut bacteria, known to have beneficial effects for health in mice and humans, changes the mother’s body during pregnancy and affects the structure of the...
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Messaging on healthy foods may not prompt healthier purchases: study
People making food-buying choices are often faced with adverts or other descriptions such as ‘low calorie’ (healthy) or ‘tasty’ (less healthy) to influence their decisions, so how effective are...
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‘Hologram patients’ developed to help train doctors and nurses
HoloScenarios, a new training application based on life-like holographic patient scenarios, is being developed by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), in partnership with the...
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UK organisations release annual statistics for use of animals in research
This list coincides with the publication of the Home Office’s report on the statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain in 2021.These ten organisations carried out 1,496,006...
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Professor Suchitra Sebastian to receive the Schmidt Science Polymaths Award
Professor Suchitra Sebastian from Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory has been awarded the Schmidt Science Polymaths award. Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt,...
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Chandra Observatory shows black hole spins slower than its peers
Supermassive black holes contain millions or even billions of times more mass than the Sun. Astronomers think that nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. While the...
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Slow spin of early galaxy observed for the first time
For the study, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of researchers analysed data from a galaxy known as MACS1149-JD1 (JD1), obtained from observations by the Atacama...
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Male dogs four times more likely to develop contagious cancer on nose or...
A new study has found that male dogs are four to five times more likely than female dogs to be infected with the oro-nasal form of Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour.Researchers think this is because...
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Study reveals why highly infectious cholera variant mysteriously died out
A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared – but instead...
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Toads surprise scientists by climbing trees in UK woodlands
Until now, common toads were thought to be terrestrial. The highest toad in this study was found three metres up a tree – and scientists say there is a chance the toads might be venturing even...
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Experts predict top emerging impacts on ocean biodiversity over next decade
An international team of experts has produced a list of 15 issues they believe are likely to have a significant impact on marine and coastal biodiversity over the next five to ten years.Their ‘horizon...
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New Cambridge Latin course reflects diversity of the Roman world
Breaking news from 79 CE: Caecilius has a daughter. Barbillus is a Greco-Syrian man of colour. Enslaved people aren’t always happy. Metella is reading in the atrium.These statements may read like...
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Cambridge research centre puts people at the heart of AI
The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) brings together researchers from engineering and mathematics, philosophy and social sciences; a broad range of disciplines to investigate...
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AstraZeneca to fund a further 55 PhD studentships with University of Cambridge
This new agreement aims to equip research students with the capabilities to work across disciplines and sectors. In addition, students will hone important translational skills that are needed to turn...
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School-based mindfulness training programme fails to improve young people’s...
The MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) study programme span spans eight years of research and explore whether schools-based mindfulness training could improve the mental health of young people. It...
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Cambridge spin-out Nyobolt raises £50m to lead the future of sustainable...
Nyobolt, which spun out of the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry in 2016 and was co-founded by Professor Dame Clare Grey DBE FRS and CEO Dr Sai Shivareddy, is commercialising high-performance...
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Why do so many company mergers fail, new book asks
Mergers of firms have boomed over the past four decades, with a 40-fold increase in deals done each year. These mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are sealed by talented, highly skilled executives,...
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