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AI can be good for our health and wellbeing

07 Apr 2025

Cambridge researchers are looking at ways that AI can transform everything from drug discovery to Alzheimer's diagnoses to GP consultations.

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Antibiotics, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication linked to reduced risk of dementia

21 Jan 2025

Antibiotics, antivirals, vaccinations and anti-inflammatory medication are associated with reduced risk of dementia, according to new research that...

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Steve Jackson

Journeys of discovery: Steve Jackson and a life-saving cancer drug

15 Jul 2024

What excites Steve Jackson is understanding how biology works and why it sometimes goes wrong. But what galvanises him is knowing there are people...

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AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold

17 Apr 2024

Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.

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Accelerating how new drugs are made with machine learning

15 Jan 2024

Researchers have developed a platform that combines automated experiments with AI to predict how chemicals will react with one another, which could...

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Cambridge partners with AstraZeneca and Medical Research Council on new world-class functional genomics laboratory

27 Nov 2023

̽»¨Ö±²¥facility, based at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, will support the discovery of new medicines and diagnostics for chronic diseases by...

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AI-driven techniques reveal new targets for drug discovery

27 Sep 2023

Researchers have developed a method to identify new targets for human disease, including neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

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Cambridge spin-out receives £2.2 million to help improve cancer treatments

01 Mar 2023

Vector Bioscience has received a £2.2 million investment to help it take forward its drug delivery platform designed to make RNA cancer therapies...

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SemaCyte cell assaying platform

Drug-screening spin-out secures new funding

23 Feb 2022

A ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge spin-out company from the Cavendish Laboratory, combines materials engineering and cell biology to help biopharma companies...

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Training a new breed of clinical triallist

03 Feb 2022

Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, working with AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists who can work out at an earlier stage of...

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‘Transformational’ approach to machine learning could accelerate search for new disease treatments

29 Nov 2021

Researchers have developed a new approach to machine learning that ‘learns how to learn’ and out-performs current machine learning methods for drug...

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One man, three companies, tens of thousands of lives...

22 Oct 2021

Professor Steve Jackson talks about drug discovery, serial entrepreneurship and the enterprising mindset.

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