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African plant scientists develop new skills in Cambridge to tackle problems...
Researchers and students gathered at the Sainsbury Laboratory on Tuesday 4 April for the inaugural African Diaspora Biotech Summit.Among the participants were 17 postgraduate students and academics...
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Opinion: How ‘frugal innovation’ can fight off inequality
Inequality is the defining social, political and economic phenomenon of our time. Just 1% of the world’s population now holds over 35% of all private wealth, more than the bottom 95% combined. Bad as...
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Global teamwork brings low-cost test for Weil's disease a step closer
Each year an estimated 1.03 million people around the world, many of them in poor countries, contract leptospirosis, with 58,900 of these infections resulting in death. Better known as Weil’s disease,...
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Target ‘best connected neighbours’ to stop spread of infection in developing...
Our lives benefit from social networks: the contact and dialogue between family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. However these networks can also cost lives by transmitting infection or...
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'Last mile’ fingerprints
The popular conception of fingerprinting often stems from television detective drama, when a perfect print – with clear arches, loops and whorls – emerges from a powder-dusted window to pin the crime...
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Museum archive reconnects a London-based Congolese community with its heritage
The community is a London-based group called the Congo Great Lakes Initiative (CGLI). Its members aim to help people with Congolese and African heritage, some of whom are victims of post-conflict...
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Opinion: The ICC can’t live with Africa, but it can’t live without it either
On the first of February, 2017, the African Union issued a resolution encouraging member states to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Whatever comes of it, the reported plan is the...
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Opinion: Aid workers get a bad rap – but too often they’re thrown in at the...
Acute famine in the Horn of Africa, an impending food crisis in Yemen and ongoing civil war in Syria are among the main causes of today’s global refugee crisis. Currently there are more than 65.3m...
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African plant scientists develop new skills in Cambridge to tackle problems...
Researchers and students gathered at the Sainsbury Laboratory on Tuesday 4 April for the inaugural African Diaspora Biotech Summit.Among the participants were 17 postgraduate students and academics...
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Opinion: How ‘frugal innovation’ can fight off inequality
Inequality is the defining social, political and economic phenomenon of our time. Just 1% of the world’s population now holds over 35% of all private wealth, more than the bottom 95% combined. Bad as...
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Global teamwork brings low-cost test for Weil's disease a step closer
Each year an estimated 1.03 million people around the world, many of them in poor countries, contract leptospirosis, with 58,900 of these infections resulting in death. Better known as Weil’s disease,...
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Target ‘best connected neighbours’ to stop spread of infection in developing...
Our lives benefit from social networks: the contact and dialogue between family, friends, colleagues and neighbours. However these networks can also cost lives by transmitting infection or...
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'Last mile’ fingerprints
The popular conception of fingerprinting often stems from television detective drama, when a perfect print – with clear arches, loops and whorls – emerges from a powder-dusted window to pin the crime...
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Ebola and Lassa fever targeted by new vaccine trial and improved surveillance
Researchers from the University of Cambridge will shortly begin clinical trials of a new vaccine that builds on almost two decades of research to protect against diseases caused by RNA viruses. At the...
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Stronger political leadership needed to close global gender divide in...
The study, commissioned by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and produced by the REAL Centre at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, reveals that the most disadvantaged girls...
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Innovative stadium will be the home of cricket in East Africa
Some 1,500 people –including Rwandan president Paul Kagame— are expected to attend the opening of the country’s first international standard stadium on Saturday 28 October. The event will feature a...
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Cambridge to launch new Africa Strategy Working Group
A high level panel has been set up, chaired by Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards college, to look at the University’s approach to engaging with Africa and advise on its future...
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Black researchers shaping the future
Read the full story hereAs the UK marks Black History Month, researchers from across the University talk about their route to Cambridge, their inspiration and their motivation.University of Cambridge...
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Half of Ebola outbreaks go undetected, study finds
The research, led by Emma Glennon from Cambridge’s Department of Veterinary Medicine, is the first to estimate the number of undetected Ebola outbreaks. Although these tend to involve clusters of fewer...
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African academics collaborate on Cambridge Research Office programme
University administrators from Uganda, Namibia, Ghana, Botswana and Sierre Leone took part in collaborative workshops, heard from speakers such as University of Cambridge Pro-Vice-Chancellor Eilis...
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