ThoughtRiver features in 'Evolve the Law'
Joanna Goodman of Evolve the Law caught up with Tim Pullan, founder and CEO of ThoughtRiver, at Legal Geek in London.
Sense Biodetection raises £12.3m to progress instrument-free molecular diagnostics
Sense Biodetection Limited (Sense) developers of simple, ultra-rapid, handheld tests for flu and other infectious diseases has raised £12.3M, in a funding round led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from Jonathan Milner.
Owlstone Medical to contribute breath biopsy to 3TR, the largest-ever IMI2 immunology project
Owlstone Medical, the global leader in Breath Biopsy® for applications in early disease detection and precision medicine has joined 3TR, a large-scale public-private research initiative that aims to provide new insights into the mechanisms of response and non-response to treatment within and across seven different immune-mediated diseases.
Cambridge Index jumps 3.7%
The Cambridge Index advanced 3.7% or 943.2 points to end at 26188.1, as four of the top five Index heavyweights posted weekly gains to their share prices.
IWM Duxford crowned Best Educational Day Out
IWM Duxford is delighted to announce that it was crowned 'Best Educational Day Out' in the East in the 2019 Day Out With the Kids Family Favourites Awards.
PredictImmune announces a strategic agreement with Theradiag for French speaking Europe to commercialise PredictSURE IBD™
An exclusive deal with the French diagnostic specialist Theradiag facilitates the first launch of PredictImmune’s prognostic tests in mainland Europe; and enables inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland to benefit from early prognosis.
First Harding Scholars welcomed
The University's first Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars were welcomed last week at a special event at St Catharine's College.
An instrumental collection goes on display
Seventy-five years ago, R S Whipple donated an astonishing haul of antique scientific objects and books to the University of Cambridge. To mark the anniversary, hundreds of its treasures are going on display at the museum named in his honour.
Study finds bias in diversity
Diversity on key corporate committees is supposed to produce better decisions. But a study at Cambridge Judge Business School finds that diverse views rarely ‘average out’ as assumed, but instead lead to systematic biases toward certain types of errors.
Event focuses on 'Journalism in the digital age'
The next event in the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)/ Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) Marketing club series sees Mike Scialom reveal his insights into the digital world of press and PR.
CRC garden for special educational needs students is treated to a make-over
The garden at Cambridge Regional College (CRC), where special educational needs students grow vegetables, herbs and flowers in their horticultural studies, has been given a transformation.
Taking the RF lab outdoors - CRFS launches portable, high-fidelity RF recorder
RF hardware and software innovator CRFS announces the launch of its new RFeye SenS Portable, a small, lightweight, high-fidelity RF recorder for long-duration signal recording and playback, with applications in defense, manufacturing and telecommunications.
Help investigate a new treatment for depression
People in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough can volunteer with the NHS to help test a new treatment which could help millions of people living with depression.
Fertility Week sees launch of new Fertility Diagnosis and Ovulation Induction service
To help couples struggling to conceive, Bourn Hall is launching a new Fertility Diagnosis and Ovulation Induction treatment service this Fertility Week, which is free to those referred by a GP (even in areas where IVF is not funded). The ultrasound-monitored programme promotes egg development and enables accurate confirmation of the time the mature egg is released - improving the chances of…
Money talks!
Sarah Austin, Independent Financial Adviser from Martin-Redman Partners, comments on the importance of talking about money.
Over £14,000 given to children’s hospice in memory of 15-year-old Sammy
A family from Hemingford Grey and their friends have presented East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) with a cheque for £14,099.54 in memory of Samantha Desborough.
Horizon Discovery reaches integration milestone and launches new website
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD), a global leader in the application of gene editing and gene modulation for cell line engineering, today went live with a new website and ecommerce system, marking a significant milestone in the Company’s strategy to fully integrate all tools, technologies and services, including Dharmacon reagents, under the Horizon brand.
Backing the scientists of the future: £170 million investment in bioscience
The next generation of UK bioscientists have received a £170 million boost from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC, a part of UK Research and Innovation).
New exhibition is telling tales through technology
A powerful new exhibition, Storytelling in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, will be held this November at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) in Cambridge.
The importance of minimising and preventing the influence of unconscious bias in recruitment
There is a real value to recruiting employees who will be a great cultural fit for an organisation, but this should also be balanced with ensuring that unconscious bias does not mean a business unintentionally discriminates or misses out on employing fantastic talent.
Exciting space session with Airbus & Space Catapult at 5th HVM New Materials 2019
CIR is delighted to announce an exciting space session with Airbus Space and the Space Catapult within a full programme for the 5th HVM New Materials & Graphene 2019 conference in Cambridge on Wednesday 6th November. It includes excellent talks from Versarien, Darktrace, William Blythe, NVIDIA AI, Pragmatic, BioBit, Astra Zeneca, Graphene@Manchester, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Cranfield,…
Meet the principal rocket landing engineer at SpaceX
From a young age, Lars Blackmore was interested in space travel and had a goal to one day work on electronics for spacecraft. It’s been a journey that’s led him from studying Engineering at Cambridge to completing a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), before going on to land engineering roles at both NASA and SpaceX.
Predicting long-term flooding trends with AI
University of Cambridge PhD student Robert Rouse has been awarded an Industrial Fellowship to develop machine learning capable of predicting future flooding events.
Promising therapy for common form of eczema identified in early-stage trial
A therapy that targets the immune system showed promise for treating atopic dermatitis – the most common form of eczema – in a small proof-of-concept trial, led by scientists from the MRC Human Immunology Unit at the University of Oxford.
Top European paediatric oncology hospital chooses PetaSuite for genomic data compression
PetaGene announced that the Princess Máxima Center for Paediatric Oncology, the largest paediatric cancer centre in Europe, has chosen to use PetaGene’s transparent, lossless genomic data compression software, called PetaSuite, to reduce its data storage costs while accelerating access to the data.