10 new Partners announced at Birketts following internal promotions
Birketts has announced the appointment of 10 new Partners, taking the total number of Partners in the firm to 90.
CBM charity raises £2.8m to help people See the Way to a brighter future with 2020 appeal
A fundraising appeal by Christian Blind Mission (CBM) in 2020 raised an enormous £2,882,712.00 to help people in the world’s poorest places See the Way to a brighter future. The appeal was launched online by Diane Louise Jordan.
Transine Therapeutics closes extended seed funding of £9.1m to advance its novel class of therapeutic RNAs
New company emerges from stealth with potential ground-breaking mRNA therapeutic platform to increase protein expression.
Newmarket Road closes this weekend
Newmarket Road will be closed from 8pm-8am on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th June.
Cambridge Index climbs 1.7%
The Cambridge Index advanced 447.1 points or 1.7% to close at 27266.9, as six of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Open Cambridge prepares for a feast of events
Cambridge’s much-loved festival of history and culture, Open Cambridge, returns this September with an extended programme of free live and digital events for everyone to enjoy.
Carolyn Rand joins the IQGeo Board as a Non-Executive Director
IQGeo (AIM: IQG), a developer of geospatial productivity and collaboration software for the telecoms and utility industries, has announced that Carolyn Rand has been appointed as a Non-executive Director to the IQGeo Board. Carolyn’s appointment creates an additional Board position and her extensive experience with high-growth technology companies and scientific businesses brings a wealth of…
CMR Surgical becomes the Official Medical Device Partner of ParalympicsGB
Ahead of the Tokyo Games, CMR Surgical has announced it has signed a gold-tier partnership with ParalympicsGB. The sponsorship is set to run for four years over the Tokyo, Beijing and Paris games and will see CMR supporting the team with a campaign to celebrate the power of human ability.
Careers Drive calls on businesses to pledge the gift of work experience
Cambridge 2030, in partnership with Form the Future, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation and Cambridgeshire County Council, has launched a Careers Drive campaign - calling on the Cambridgeshire business community to unite in supporting young people by pledging in-person work experience placements when workplaces and offices are open again.
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BSJP becomes first Polish law firm to announce adoption of Luminance’s AI
BSJP becomes the first Polish firm to adopt Luminance's world-leading AI platform.
Japanese Patent Office upholds key Charpentier/Doudna CRISPR patent and allows third
Dublin, Ireland, 01 June 2021: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier, today announced that the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) has rejected arguments filed in opposition to the second Japanese patent (JP6692856) filed by Dr.Charpentier, together with The Regents of the University of…
New Covid-19 ‘Test To Go’ app launched for work, leisure and travel
Test To Go, the world’s first mobile phone App that enables people to conduct rapid COVID-19 tests, record the results instantly and create a digital certificate showing their coronavirus status has been launched today.
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The PCE-OVM 3D - a digital 3D microscope for magnifying spatial structures
With the PCE-OVM 3D, PCE Instruments has a new 3D microscope in its product range that differs from other models, among other things, in allowing a particularly large work surface to be used.
Ink savings and cost reductions with Bellissima DMS confirmed by independent study
Prepress company Hamillroad Software announced today a new independent study that confirms the inherent ink savings achieved when printing using Bellissima DMS screening for flexographic printing.
PheroSyn awarded grant for novel pheromone development
PheroSyn, the company spun-out from Rothamsted Research to develop and produce novel pest pheromones, has been awarded an Innovate UK grant to develop the supply chain for a new set of insect pheromones.
Prototype Projects produces a point of care diagnostic device for TTP
After considering several alternative prototyping bureaus at various price-points and quality levels, The Technology Partnership (TTP) engaged Prototype Projects who, using their high-quality, industry-standard SLA machines, produced exceptional prototypes.
CMR Surgical collaborates with Microsoft in pioneering new trial for health data storage
CMR Surgical (CMR), the global company that has developed the next-generation surgical robot, Versius®, today announced an engagement with Microsoft in a first for health data. Clinical data from Versius procedures was stored onto a small [75x75mm] proof of concept glass platter, which can be safely preserved for more than ten thousand years, as part of the new ‘Project Silica’ trial by Microsoft.
Lucida Medical receives CE marking for Pi, its AI-machine learning software for detecting prostate cancer from MRI
Lucida Medical Ltd, the Cambridge based start-up, has completed CE marking for its new machine learning-based prostate cancer detection software, Prostate Intelligence (Pi). Lucida is one of the first companies in the world to commercialise artificial intelligence software to identify cancer in prostate MRI scans. This crucial milestone enables the cutting-edge technology to be deployed within…
Merger completed between Cambridge firms Harrison Clark Rickerbys and Hewitsons
Award winning top regional law firm Harrison Clark Rickerbys (HCR) has completed its merger with well-established firm Hewitsons. The two firms will work together from today (June 1).
Switching off heart protein could protect against heart failure
Switching off a heart muscle protein could provide a new way for drugs to combat heart failure in people who’ve had a heart attack, according to research led by the University of Cambridge.
Genetic study identifies risk for some childhood cancer patients developing secondary leukaemia and will help inform treatment plan
Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma – a cancer of immature nerve cells – treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused changes to the genome that could then cause leukaemia in some children later on.
Swaffham Prior awarded £3.2m funding in first community renewable heating project
Cambridgeshire County Council has been awarded more than £3.2 million of Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) funding for a community heat network in the village of Swaffham Prior.
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