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Likelihood of severe and ‘long’ COVID may be established very early on...
Among the key findings, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, are:Individuals who have asymptomatic or mild disease show a robust immune response early on during infection.Patients requiring admission...
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Key mutations in Alpha variant enable SARS-CoV-2 to overcome evolutionary...
SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, so named because spike proteins on its surface give it the appearance of a crown (‘corona’). The spike proteins bind to ACE2, a protein receptor found on the surface of...
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Llama ‘nanobodies’ could hold key to preventing deadly post-transplant infection
Around four out of five people in the UK are thought to be infected with HCMV, and in developing countries this can be as high as 95%. For the majority of people, the virus remains dormant, hidden away...
View ArticleTraining a new breed of clinical triallist
Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, working with AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists who can work out at an earlier stage of clinical trials if a treatment is likely to succeed.
View ArticlePart IV: Celebrating the Cambridge Women Changing the World
Part IV - The Finale: To mark International Women's Day and Women's History Month, the University is delighted to shine a light on some of the incredible women living and working here at Cambridge.
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Researchers redesign future mRNA therapeutics to prevent potentially harmful...
mRNA - or ‘messenger ribonucleic acid’ - is the genetic material that tells cells in the body how to make a specific protein. Researchers from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Toxicology Unit have...
View ArticleTreating newly-diagnosed Crohn's patients with advanced therapy leads to...
A large-scale clinical trial of treatment strategies for Crohn’s disease has shown that offering early advanced therapy to all patients straight after diagnosis can drastically improve outcomes,...
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Genetic mutation in a quarter of all Labradors hard-wires them for obesity
This obesity-driving combination means that dog owners must be particularly strict with feeding and exercising their Labradors to keep them slim.The mutation is in a gene called POMC, which plays a...
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