Cambridge Index rises 1.7%
The Cambridge Index advanced 406.7 points or 1.7% to close at 23954.4, as nine of the top ten Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
Effectiveness and efficiency – how to strike the right balance
Do you know how to strike the right balance between effectiveness and efficiency? It's easier than you think, but first, you must let go of the illusion that you can always be efficient and effective at the same time in everything that you do.
Working from home in Lockdown 2.0
With the shift towards working at home looking like it will be with us for the long-term, employees need to remain vigilant to protect their organisation from potential breaches and attacks.
Birketts recruits top lawyer to Property Litigation Team
Top 100 UK law firm Birketts has strengthened its experienced Property Litigation Team with the arrival of Legal Director, Lynsey Ellard.
Bicycle Therapeutics presents posters at the SITC 35th anniversary annual meeting
Bicycle Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: BCYC), a biotechnology company pioneering a new and differentiated class of therapeutics based on its proprietary bicyclic peptide (Bicycle®) technology, today announced that preclinical data for BT7480, a tumour-targeted immune cell agonist (TICA™), and an EphA2/CD137 TICA will be presented during an e-poster session at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer’s …
Consultation launched on trial walking and cycling measures
A consultation on trial measures introduced to make it easier for people to walk and cycle around Cambridge during Covid-19 has been launched today.
Research and Innovation Highlights from ARU
Anglia Ruskin Univeristy (ARU) is pleased to share the latest issue of its annual publication Research and Innovation Highlights.
COEL team operates a full service during lockdown#2
COEL and its subsidiary companies CPMS and CMS Cambridge will remain open and will continue to deliver offices and laboratories throughout the duration of the new lockdown.
Pfizer and BioNTech announce vaccine candidate against COVID-19 successful in first interim analysis from Phase 3 study
Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis.
Ditch the plough, increase diversity, grow cover crops - three achievable steps toward 'Net Zero'?
Agri-tech offers ‘soil up’ approach to restoring environmental balance and farm incomes...
Science Comms – a how-to guide for times like these
One odd silver lining these days is that the amorphous topic of ‘science’ and its value in our lives is much more discussed!
Garden office company builds success during pandemic
A Cambridge garden room builder has seen orders go through the roof as more and more people decide to make working from home permanent.
Tame your computer - stop the traffic again
In her regular series for Cambridge Network members - now in its 15th year - software training expert Karen Roem offers handy tips to help you 'Tame your computer'. This week she describes how to delete meeting responses that don't contain comments, automatically (Microsoft Outlook).
Your subject isn't boring
You might think it is, but communication coach (and very interesting speaker) Jon Torrens reckons you just haven't discovered it yet.
Cell Guidance Systems introduces Exo-spin 96 exosome purification kit
Cell Guidance Systems Ltd, a specialist in exosome research reagents and services, today announced the launch of a new product for the purification of exosomes from blood and other samples. The Exo-spin™ 96 exosome purification kit allows researchers to purify exosome samples in the standard 96 well plate format.
Last chance to enter Cambridge Independent SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards
This is the final call for entries to the Cambridge Independent SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards.
Congenica completes $50m Series C funding round to advance clinical genomic analysis software and data platform
Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, is pleased to announce the completion of its Series C funding round, raising US$50m (£39m).
PA Consulting supports unique collaboration to develop a new generation of sensor technologies
Plans for a new generation of sensors – technology that underpins the UK economy – are to be prepared in a unique industrial, academic and Government collaboration announced today.
PhoreMost and Oxford Biomedica enter gene therapy discovery collaboration
PhoreMost Limited, the UK-based biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing drugs against intractable disease targets, and Oxford Biomedica plc, a leading gene and cell therapy group, today announced that they have entered into a discovery collaboration to develop next-generation CAR-T cell therapies. Financial details of the agreement are not disclosed.
Raise some festive cheer with Arthur Rank Hospice Charity at the end of an unusual year!
Find out more about how you can support your local Hospice at Arthur Rank Hospice Charity's Festive Fun Run this year.
Game combats political misinformation by letting players undermine democracy
A short online game in which players are recruited as a “Chief Disinformation Officer” and use tactics such as trolling to sabotage elections in a peaceful town has been shown to reduce susceptibility to political misinformation in its users.
Honour among thieves: the study of a cybercrime marketplace in action
Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre have revealed what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in an underground cybercrime forum over the past two years.
RRS James Clark Ross departs for Antarctica
The RRS James Clark Ross departed the Port of Harwich last week (Thursday 5 November) beginning its five-and-a-half-month mission to deliver scientific and operational staff to Antarctica, and to resupply the UK stations in Antarctica for another year.
GCP plans briefing webinars on local projects
The Greater Cambridge Partnership's (GCP's) consultation on the Waterbeach to Cambridge project is currently open. Normally it would be holding public exhibitions where the public would be able to express their views on these plans. However, the Covid-19 outbreak means that cannot happen, so the GCP is planning a series of other communication exercises.
Worker assistance systems: Understanding the human perspective
Worker assistance systems are becoming increasingly intelligent, interactive and supportive. But do they have a future on the shop floor?