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Professor Patrick Chinnery, Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed as the new Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council (MRC).Opportunities to advance human health through…

The new ‘MN-predict’ platform will allow doctors and scientists to identify those at risk and to design new treatments to prevent them from developing these potentially lethal cancers. MN-predict makes it possible to…

The majority of carbon offset schemes are significantly overestimating the levels of deforestation they are preventing, according to a study published in Science.This means that many of the “carbon credits” bought by companies to balance…

Renowned Cambridge astrophysicist and cosmologist Professor Lord Martin Rees has been named this year’s recipient of the world’s oldest and most prestigious scientific award.Lord Rees, a Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of…

A team led by Professor Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a…

Apollo Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company originally set up by three UK universities (Cambridge, Imperial College London and University College London) and three pharmaceutical companies (AstraZeneca, GSK and Johnson & Johnson…

A near total lack of transparency is making it impossible to assess the quality of corporate-led ecosystem restoration projects, a new study finds.The world’s largest corporations have the potential to lift ecosystem restoration efforts…

A new study led by Cambridge University confirms that planting hedges between roadsides and school playgrounds can dramatically reduce children’s exposure to traffic-related particle pollution. Our findings show that…

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has used data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, an exoplanet in the ‘Goldilocks…

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behaviour, reduces the risk of…