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The brain is uniquely protected against invading bacteria and viruses, but its defence mechanism has long remained a mystery. Now, a study in mice, confirmed in human samples, has shown that the brain has a surprising ally in its protection: the gut. Read the original article here>

In late 2019, a new institute opened on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Its timing could not have been better - as the COVID-19 pandemic sent Britain into lockdown several months later, the institute found itself at the heart of the University’s response to this unprecedented challenge. Read the original article here>

Professor Ravi Gupta has been named today as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year , in recognition of his work to bring about the second-ever cure of a patient with HIV. In 2019, the case of ‘ The London Patient ’ made global headlines, as 40-year-old Adam Castillejo underwent a bone marrow...

DNA from tissue biopsies taken from patients with Barrett’s oesophagus – a risk factor for oesophageal cancer – could show which patients are most likely to develop the disease eight years before diagnosis, suggests a study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL...