Cambridge celebrates historic Varsity Athletics competition and World Athletics recognition
5 June 2025
The world’s oldest athletics competition — the annual contest between Cambridge and Oxford — reached a landmark celebration this year, commemorating 150 years of men's competition, 50 years of women's competition, and the second year of the para-athletics Varsity.
‘AI scientist’ suggests combinations of widely available non-cancer drugs can kill cancer cells
4 June 2025
An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions such as high cholesterol and alcohol dependence – could also be effective at treating cancer, a promising new approach to drug discovery.
Cambridge researchers awarded £7.5 million to build programmable plants
2 June 2025
Two groups involving researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences are among nine teams to have been awarded funding today from the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)’s Synthetic Plants programme.
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