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New technologies and strong academic-industry partnerships have the potential to change the face of therapeutic medicine.

Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences aims to create world-leading industry-academia collaborations

09 Mar 2017

̽»¨Ö±²¥Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS), a new initiative that aims to establish a world-leading platform for collaboration between...

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Virtual reality journey through a tumour: Cambridge scientists receive £40 million funding boost

10 Feb 2017

Cambridge scientists have received two of the biggest funding grants ever awarded by Cancer Research UK, with the charity set to invest £40 million...

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' ̽»¨Ö±²¥Iron Lady' and the paradox of treating anaemia

03 Feb 2017

Iron deficiency can be fatal. But in countries where patients are also likely to have other serious diseases, so too can the iron supplements used to...

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Patients show considerable improvements after treatment for newly-defined movement disorder

19 Dec 2016

DNA sequencing has defined a new genetic disorder that affects movement, enabling patients with dystonia — a disabling condition that affects...

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Enhanced CRISPR lets scientists explore all steps of health and disease in every cell type

29 Nov 2016

Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have created sOPTiKO, a more efficient and enhanced inducible...

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Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies

08 Nov 2016

A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by...

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Potential new treatment for haemophilia developed by Cambridge researchers

27 Oct 2016

A new treatment that might one day help all patients with haemophilia, including those that become resistant to existing therapies, has been...

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Measurement of brain activity in a patient with phantom limb pain

Cause of phantom limb pain in amputees, and potential treatment, identified

27 Oct 2016

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a...

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Self-renewable killer cells could be key to making cancer immunotherapy work

26 Oct 2016

A small molecule that can turn short-lived ‘killer T-cells’ into long-lived, renewable cells that can last in the body for a longer period of time...

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Cambridge extends world leading role for medical imaging with powerful new brain and body scanners

24 Oct 2016

̽»¨Ö±²¥next generation of imaging technology, newly installed at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, will give researchers an unprecedented view of the human...

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Depressing fog

Anti-inflammatory drugs could help treat symptoms of depression, study suggests

18 Oct 2016

Anti-inflammatory drugs similar to those used to treat conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis could in future be used to treat some...

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Diabetes (rotated)

New approach to treating type 1 diabetes aims to limit damage caused by our own immune system

11 Oct 2016

Researchers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge have taken the first step towards developing a new form of treatment for type 1 diabetes which, if...

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