Join team ARHC’s Sahara Challenge in March 2018 for the ultimate team building experience
Find out more about what it would be like to join Team ARHC on Arthur Rank Hospice's expedition to the largest hot desert in the world.
Three million hours worked on North West Cambridge development site
Three million construction hours have now been worked on the North West Cambridge Development to create the new district in Cambridge. Works on the University of Cambridge led development began in 2013 and the first phase is due for completion in 2017, with the local centre to be known as Eddington.
Money Mover country report - Switzerland
Covered by glaciers during the Ice Age, Switzerland was colonised relatively recently compared to its neighbours, with the first group to identifiably inhabit what is now Switzerland being the Celts, in around 100 BC. Since then, until its independence in 1815 it has been fought over by the Romans, ‘Barbarians’ and French.
Vetoquinol appoints Stanton Shallcross to deliver new advertising campaign for 2017
The 9th largest veterinary pharmaceutical company in the world, Vetoquinol is first and foremost an independent, family-owned business. Deeply committed to its values, it has always enjoyed a close relationship with its vet clients.
Visit Cambridge Open Art Exhibition this weekend
Cambridge Open Art Exhibition takes place this weekend (Friday 18 to Sunday 20 November) at Swavesey Village College.
Anglia Ruskin wins British business ‘Oscar’
Anglia Ruskin University has won a prestigious national prize for entrepreneurship at the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards, known as “the Oscars of Great British business”.
‘Bracode’ campaign success brings personalised breast cancer treatment one step closer
A new pioneering research study, which could make personalised breast cancer diagnosis and treatment a reality, launched on Monday at Addenbrooke’s Hospital thanks to the successful ‘Bracode’ fundraising campaign by Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT).
Points of View: Trump’s election
This week Oliver Phillips of NW Brown focuses on Donald Trump's election.
Horizon Discovery enters Chinese clinical diagnostics market
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the world leader in the application of gene editing technologies, today announces that it has entered into partnerships with three leading Chinese diagnostic kit developers. Under the terms of the agreements, Horizon will provide HDx Reference Standards for novel Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) assay development, clinical trials, and ultimately for inclusion as in…
Cresset CEO chairs and presents at International Congress of Medichem, China
Cresset, innovative provider of software and contract services for small molecule discovery and design, is pleased to announce that this week, Dr Robert Scoffin, CEO, will chair the‘Sym 203: Pioneering Screening Technologies for Lead Compounds’ session at the Annual Congress of Medichem in Nanjing, China.
Collaboration aims to help keep patients safe in hospital
Healthcare is a complex beast and too often problems arise that can put patients’ health – and in some cases, lives – at risk. A collaboration between the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research and the Department of Engineering hopes to get to the bottom of what’s going wrong – and to offer new ways of solving the problems.
Ubisense digitises gas survey and inspection for Unitil
Ubisense Group plc (AIM: UBI), a leader in enterprise location intelligence solutions, has completed installation of myWorld Inspection & Survey at Unitil, a utility business committed to delivering safe and reliable energy to more than 180,000 customers across New England.
Bridge the Gap raises a phenomenal £42,410 in its 15th year!
Cambridge’s Bridge the Gap walk raised an impressive £42,410 this year, split equally between two benefitting charities - Arthur Rank Hospice Charity and Romsey Mill.
Cambridge iGEM team wins Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize
A team of Cambridge students has been awarded a Gold Medal and Best Plant Synthetic Biology Prize for their entry into the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition 2016.
Xaar technology drives many industrial innovations on show at InPrint 2016
Xaar, the world leader in industrial inkjet technology, and its industry-leading OEM partners will demonstrate the power of Xaar printhead technology to drive the development of a wide variety of specialist, high-precision industrial inkjet solutions at InPrint 2016 (Booth F26, MiCo, Milan, 15-17 November).
A conversation creates a constructive trust
A Court of Appeal decision illustrates the importance of drawing up Declarations of Trust. Lucinda Brown of Hewitsons outlines the case.
Five smart tools for easy collaboration
We all know that collaborative working is the best way to get things done. It's faster, easier, and by pooling ideas and resources it produces higher quality work. Actually collaborating however can be a bit of a challenge...
Cambridge Marketing College launches the CIM level 7 Marketing Leadership Programme
Cambridge Marketing College launches the CIM’s new Level 7 qualification, the Marketing Leadership Programme, which has been designed specifically for senior marketers to prepare them for their future career.
OpenPlant Fund opens to applications for £5000 grants on plant or cell-free synthetic biology
Thre OpenPlant Fund offers £5000 to support open, interdisciplinary and innovative projects to engineer plant biology. Applications are now open until 1 Dec 2016 for projects led from the University of Cambridge or Norwich Research Park, with external collaborators welcome. For this round, applications focused on cell-free synthetic biology are also encouraged.
Conscious Communications launches Cambridge Games network
Cambridge-based public relations and marketing agency, Conscious Communications, has launched Cambridge Games, a not-for-profit forum to enable teachers to connect with experts in the game development and broader technology industries and gain access to technical support, knowledge, resources and ideas.
Growing with the Tech Corridor
MSF Technologies goes for growth with the Cambridge-Norwich Tech Corridor
Innovations poised to tackle educational inequality
If things don’t change drastically, half of the world’s young people will lack the basic skills they need for work and life.
Scientists ‘plug in’ to circuitry behind sex in male fruit flies
Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to allow them to perform the complex mating ritual.
New protein provides critical link between aging and age-dependent disease
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for conditions that cause sight loss in later life.
Ben bags the bronze in world championships
Anglia Ruskin University student Ben Karaosman has won a bronze medal at the World Powerlifting Congress in Louisiana, United States, after lifting a combined 552.5kg in the squat, deadlift and bench press.