Bamboo Systems names new vice president of sales
Bamboo Systems, a provider of revolutionary Arm-based, enterprise-class servers, architected to meet the needs of today’s software design and data center demands, today announced that it has appointed Andy Hill as its Vice President of Sales and Pre-Sales, effective immediately. Hill will be focused on leading the worldwide expansion of Bamboo’s partner ecosystem and customer adoption.
SPT Labtech announces acquisition of BioMicroLab
SPT Labtech, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, announces the acquisition of BioMicroLab, a robotics automation provider for life science laboratories.
Top innovation award for Actiphage rapid tuberculosis test
Actiphage®, the rapid TB test from PBD Biotech, has been awarded the Innovation Award 2021 by Veterinary Record, the official journal of the British Veterinary Association (BVA).
Leading AI company Luminance continues to innovate with new round of machine learning-powered product enhancements
Luminance is releasing a range of machine learning-driven upgrades in a powerful product update available to all customers.
Fitzwilliam College lends a hand to Cambridge Sustainable Food
A Cambridge College has helped to ensure that children in Cambridge and the surrounding villages didn’t go without meal during this half term.
The Food Marketing Experts kicks off new year with award
Cambridgeshire based full-service agency, The Food Marketing Experts, has started 2021 on a high, following news that the business has won another award to add to its growing list of accolades.
The world is changing, are you?
Are you looking to digitally transform your business? Professional services software company and AWS partner Green Custard has put together a free practical guide that explores how cloud and IoT can make a difference; reviews mistakes to avoid, and gives advice on moving forward with your journey.
Solving the communication challenges in the education sector
The Education sector is under constant pressure from parents, management and the government to improve collaboration and results. The deployment of 21st century technologies to enhance this is especially challenging at a time of budgetary constraint and Covid-19. Budgets are always an issue, but when having to prep for home learning and keeping the children and staff safe, its even more of a…
Taylor Wessing acts on transformational roll-up and $250 million crossover financing of cutting-edge UK and European biotech companies
Taylor Wessing has advised a series of eight biotech companies on their concurrent sale into Centessa Pharmaceuticals, a newly established holding company for a group of 10 life sciences companies in Europe and North America.
A guide to home working
HomeOffice - A guide to homeworking from New Office Group is an informative and useful guide to create the perfect home office space.
ERS Genomics and ZeClinics sign CRISPR/Cas9 licence agreement
Dublin, Ireland & Barcelona, Spain, 16 February 2021: ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier, and ZeClinics, a contract research organization using zebrafish to carry out services focused on analysing the safety, efficacy and biomedical relevance of new compounds, today…
Avacta announces results of initial evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 lateral flow antigen test with clinical samples
Avacta Group plc (AIM: AVCT), the developer of Affimer® biotherapeutics and reagents, announces that it has received the first data for its SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test from ongoing clinical studies in Europe and the UK. These data show excellent performance of the test in identifying patients with an infectious viral load and no false positive results.
Waterbeach residents invited to join village’s Neighbourhood Plan consultation
Councillors are urging residents to comment on the draft Neighbourhood Plan for Waterbeach during a consultation which runs from today (16 February) to 20 April 2021. The draft Plan has been developed by the Waterbeach community over the last six years and, once finalised and adopted, would have equal status to the wider Local Plan for Greater Cambridge, when it comes to setting out where, what…
Solving communication challenges for businesses
Businesses are under constant pressure to improve communication between staff and their clients, whilst working remotely. The deployment of 21st century technologies to enhance this is especially challenging at a time of budgetary constraint and Covid-19. Budgets are always an issue, but when having to do business as usual, between working from home and the office, and keeping everyone safe, it…
Next week: CIIPM offers virtual training course in IP & Commercialisation
CIIPM continues to offer training courses via Zoom during the pandemic.
Germany, Europe’s medtech powerhouse, installs first Versius system
CMR Surgical (CMR) today announced the introduction of its Versius® Surgical Robotic System in Germany. Klinikum Chemnitz – a leading public hospital based in Saxony – is the first German hospital to install Versius, which has now been used in over 1,000 clinical cases across Europe, Australia and India.
£10m research centre to spur a greener global financial system
The UK is investing £10 million in a new national green finance research centre that will advise lenders, investors and insurers.
‘NVIDIA’s Cambridge-1 supercomputer will be a force for life sciences’
While NVIDIA awaits regulatory approval for its $40bn bid for Arm, the US technology company is progressing its vision for a starring role in the Cambridge ecosystem by engaging with the local community. This included an online session hosted recently by Cambridge Network.
Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits
Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behaviour, making it possible to detect a single quantum bit in a dense cloud.
Cambridge-based Impulse Programme produces UK’s ‘next gen’ entrepreneurs with over £50million of investment
A Cambridge University programme has produced a fleet of the UK’s ‘next generation’ entrepreneurs and world-class innovators - attracting over £50million (£53,561,000) of funding and investments over the past four years for the alumni’s life-changing projects.
Cambridge Index climbs 4.4%
The Cambridge Index advanced 1,197.4 points or 4.4% to close at 28237.2, as seven of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Can internal body awareness help beat stress?
A new study is looking for participants to investigate whether internal body awareness can help improve mental health and reduce lockdown-related stress.
Claim your free ticket to new ‘AI Festival’ to hear an impressive line-up of inspiring speakers
Cambridge Network members have the opportunity to get free tickets for the newly launched AI Festival next week (24 and 25 February 2021). Facebook, Google, and BT are just some of the leading technology companies set to share their knowledge and insights at the event.
Cambridge Festival asks: can robots ever truly mimic humans?
Could AI help us reach a more equitable and fair society? Should chatbots and AI be built to care and have empathy? If such machines are built, should we consider their moral and legal status? Or are we giving up too much control to machines that are too stupid to handle the tasks they are already charged with?
Tier 2 partners with Auth0 to include Identity-as-a-Service within cloud-native solutions
Tier 2 is pleased to announce it has recently become one of the first Auth0 partners in the UK to provide both application development and consultancy capability within the Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) space. Auth0 allows organisations to rapidly integrate authentication and authorization services within web, mobile, and legacy applications.