March of the superbugs

13 February 2013

Scientists who recently discovered a new strain of superbug have now tracked its transmission between animals and humans.

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Finding malaria's weak spot

06 February 2013

A ground-breaking imaging system to track malarial infection of blood cells in real time has been created by a collaboration catalysed by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥â€™s Physics of Medicine Initiative.

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Sleeping sickness by stealth

04 February 2013

New research is helping to unveil how the parasite that causes sleeping sickness uses stealth tactics to escape detection by the human immune system.

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Botanic Garden names new Director

09 January 2013

Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated Professorship of Plant Systematics and Evolution to which she has been elected, in July 2013.

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Original manuscript of Fauna Cantabrigiensis

̽»¨Ö±²¥remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist

09 January 2013

A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for the first time. A significant naturalist in his own right, Jenyns turned down the offer of a place on HMS Beagle, recommending instead a younger colleague, Charles Darwin.

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