New innovation hub aims to take a 'moon shot' at cystic fibrosis

18 April 2018

Almost 30 years on from the discovery of the genetic defect that causes cystic fibrosis, treatment options are still limited and growing antibiotic resistance presents a grave threat. Now, a team of researchers from across Cambridge, in a major new centre supported by the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, hopes to turn fortunes around.

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Geographic patterns of spread of influenza pandemic

Citizen science experiment predicts massive toll of flu pandemic on the UK

22 March 2018

How fast could a new flu epidemic spread? ̽»¨Ö±²¥results of the UK’s largest citizen science project of its kind ever attempted, carried out by thousands of volunteers, predict that 43 million people in the UK could be infected in an influenza pandemic, and with up to 886,000 of those infected expected to be fatalities. 

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Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle

12 February 2018

Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living laboratory’, and a dog called Lucy, researchers hope to unearth new understanding of the secret life of these underground delicacies.

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Supermassive black holes.

A force to be reckoned with

27 November 2017

Gravity is one of the universe's great mysteries. We decided to find out why.

Think you know what gravity is? Think again. New research is revealing how little we know about this most mysterious of forces.

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