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Neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the brain and promises treatments for devastating disorders that affect millions.

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

06 April 2022

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan – from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult – that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age. 

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Tangled rope

New funding to untangle Alzheimer’s disease

01 Dec 2009

A major new drive to understand, diagnose and treat Alzheimer’s disease has begun in Cambridge.

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Sharing the results of research critical to advancement of biological sciences

10 Sep 2009

Sharing the fruits of research in the biomedical sciences is critical for the advance of knowledge, yet with the advent of large-scale data gathering...

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Funding awarded to help understand the causes of Dyscalculia

06 Aug 2009

Scientists at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education have been awarded more than £1 million by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate...

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Waldmann, Clark and Hale

Campath: from innovation to impact

01 Aug 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥path from innovation to impact can be long and complex. Here we describe the 30-year journey behind the development of a drug now being used to...

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Seven Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of ̽»¨Ö±²¥British Academy

16 Jul 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥British Academy today announced 35 scholars who have been elected to Fellowships this year in recognition of their research achievements. The...

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Generation to Reproduction – Wellcome Trust support for History of Medicine

13 Jul 2009

A major new research programme which proposes a comprehensive reassessment of the history of reproduction is to be launched at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of...

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ACDiversity visit to Cambridge creates positive connections

22 May 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥director of the London-based educational group African & Caribbean Diversity was in Cambridge yesterday to learn more about the ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s...

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King's College Cambridge

Cambridge academics elected as Fellows of the Royal Society

15 May 2009

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises...

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WiSETI Annual Lecture

06 Mar 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative (WiSETI) will be hosting their annual lecture on Monday 9 March.

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Women in Science: what women and men should know

20 Feb 2009

A mini-symposium at the Clinical School will explore the special issues that women may face in pursuing a successful career in science.

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Nerve cell

New hopes for the nervous system: multiple sclerosis

01 Jan 2009

Cambridge neurologists have shown that an antibody used to treat leukaemia also limits and repairs the damage in multiple sclerosis.

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New hope for multiple sclerosis sufferers

22 Oct 2008

A drug which was developed in Cambridge and initially designed to treat a form of leukaemia has also proven effective against combating the...

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