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Profiles of leaders in salivary bioscience: Hershel Raff, PhD
Each month Salimetrics features an expert from its saliva research community. The intention is to bring together university researchers from around the world, to encourage the sharing of ideas. The company says: "We want to open a dialogue to encourage collaborative research and to maximise grant applications. We trust this will encourage the future use of saliva, minimally invasive technology:…
Charity calls for councils to cooperate
Planners at Cambridge City Council, and their counterparts at South Cambridgeshire and the County, need to work together to create a common strategic framework for the sub-region that would enable local plans and the forthcoming transport strategy to be prepared in an integrated way. That’s the conclusion of local charity Cambridge Past, Present & Future (CambridgePPF) in its formal response to…
Deadline looms to register for free mediation training
The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is running a regional mediation pilot scheme in the Cambridge area, targeting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Local companies keen to participate have just a few days left to register before the deadline of 31 July.
Airport busy with Olympics traffic
Cambridge Airport announced this morning that a total of 17 aircraft movements would take place at the airfield today – Friday 27 July – in support of the UK Olympics. A total of 211 further movements are booked for the Olympic period which ends following the Paralympic Games in August.
Link warnings from Google have caused more panic than necessary
When Google first launched over a decade ago, it was designed around the concept of counting links as votes to credible sites that feature good content. Today, this isn’t the most effective of concepts for Google to employ and for years they have been talking and strategising how they might discount certain links that they decide aren’t genuine ‘votes’. The latest update to their algorithms, the…
Unique mentoring and management training programme opens doors in Cambridge
Performance CoMentoring™ - a new mentoring and management training system developed in Cambridge - is launched today. The year-long programme is a powerful developmental approach for managers and directors.
Dolomite given SMART award to develop a 'plug and play' microfluidic system
Microfluidics expert Dolomite has been awarded a SMART grant from the UK Government to develop a plug and play microfluidic system which will make microfluidics more accessible to a wider market and will increase productivity in research labs.
Stonham chooses ‘robust check-in system’ Lookout Call to safeguard colleagues
Home Group houses over 120,000 of society’s most vulnerable people a year in 55,000 homes in 200 local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales, and works with almost 30,000 vulnerable people through over 500 supported housing, justice and health services each year through its care and support arm, Stonham.
Observer bias
Scientists are human and are prone to accept evidence which fits with their views while dismissing that which conflicts with them.
Newly registered firms in Cambridge region
Here's a list of the number of new firms registering at Companies House in Cambridge, Huntingdon, Newmarket, Wisbech, Ely, St Neots, Downham Market and Saxmundham week by week from 17th June 2012 to 22nd July. For example, in Cambridge 34 firms registered, in Huntingdon 12, Newmarket 7, Wisbech 7.
Take a bold step
I recently attended a talk by Amelia Russell, the youngest female explorer to walk 500 miles to the geographic North Pole unsupported. What would be a bold action for you? asks Hilary Jeanes of PurpleLine Consulting.
Aesop’s Fable unlocks how we think
Cambridge scientists have used an age-old fable to help illustrate how we think differently to other animals.
A rare ‘Eagle’ visits Cambridge on the eve of the Olympics
The world’s oldest in-service passenger aircraft, a 1936 de Havilland Dragon, which is owned and operated by Aer Lingus, visited Cambridge Airport on the eve of the Olympic Games.
Cambridge wins backing to become a Future City
Cambridge has won Government backing for its vision to become a ‘Future City’ using modern technology to become less congested, more vibrant and better connected. A £50,000 grant to explore innovative solutions for integrating the city’s vital networks has been secured following a successful bid made by Cambridge City Council with South Cambridgeshire District Council and Cambridgeshire County…
Saudi airport upgrades TETRA communications using Zinwave technology
When in-building coverage for non-standard TETRA frequencies was needed to enhance public safety communications at King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia, Zinwave was able to provide a solution within a very quick timescale.
Remote working is the solution to Olympic travel congestion
The huge influx of tourists into London for the start of the Olympics has already put a great strain on the transport system, with major rush-hour delays being reported on London roads after the Olympic Route Network (ORN) became operational as of Wednesday (25 July). According to Dr Steven Turner, VP of IT Optimisation at Intergence – a leading independent IT optimisation consultancy – utilising…
Travelling at short notice?
The Travel Clinic Ltd offers advice to those who may have to travel abroad at short notice because of a family emergency.
Ellee Seymour of ProActive PR is shortlisted for a prestigious PR award
Ellee Seymour of ProActive PR has been shortlisted for a prestigious PR award. She is a finalist for Best Freelance Practitioner in East Anglia in the CIPR PRideAwards 2012, and the result will be announced on Thursday, 11 October.
Energy efficiency symposium – new attendees welcome
The inaugural, one-day Winton Symposium on energy efficiency will be held on Monday, 1 October 2012 at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. The event will bring together some of the leading scientists from around the world to explore the fundamental limits set by science and engineering to the efficiency with which we can generate, store and use energy.
GPS backpacks reveal sheep flocking strategy
UK researchers have shown for the first time that instead of fleeing randomly when faced with danger, sheep head straight for the centre of the flock. Understanding this behaviour in healthy animals may help researchers understand the breakdown in social behaviours caused by neurological disorders in sheep, as well as those in humans, such as Huntington’s disease.
Samsung flagship smartphone adopts CSR technology
CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) has announced that the CSR aptX audio codec has been adopted by Samsung to deliver CD-quality stereo over Bluetooth wireless connectivity for its latest flagship smartphone, one of the most highly anticipated products of its kind this year. This Android™ 4.0 powered smartphone joins the rapidly expanding list of high-profile consumer electronics products that…
ARM reports a rise in profits
ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the second quarter and half year ended 30 June 2012.
Cambridge Airport lands a double first
This week, Cambridge Airport lands a double first with Danube Wings’ first UK scheduled services to France, and the first ever flights to the Franche-Comté region, launching tomorrow (Friday 27 July 2012).
Report highlights growing threat to biodiversity
Many of the world’s tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity, according to a study by more than 200 scientists from around the world just published in Nature.
TeraView brings new techniques to the study of industrial coatings
TeraView, which is commercialising active terahertz technology, now brings techniques developed for medicine and pharmaceutical products to non-destructive testing for coatings, studies of adhesion.