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Every other person will experience a mental health difficulty at some point in their life. The causes are complex, but treatment options are not - and in half of patients they just don't work. A new network of researchers at Cambridge aims to revolutionise mental healthcare by probing the processes underlying the symptoms.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. Brain wiring diagrams are a first step towards understanding everything we're interested in - how we control our movement, answer the telephone, or recognise a friend.

A positive research culture is one where all staff working in research, whether in academic, technical or support roles, feel welcomed, supported and able to give of their best. That is what we aspire to at Cambridge. We know that the current research culture in Cambridge is not perfect. Some of the challenges we face are specific to our own institution, while others are complex, systemic issues found in research communities across the world.

A species of tropical tree snail is no longer extinct in the wild following a successful reintroduction project.

Ongoing war in Gaza will set children and young people's education back by up to five years, report suggests.

Energy inefficiency and inability to downsize pose even bigger threat to low-income pensioners than loss of Winter Fuel Payments, study suggests The UK Government's policy to scrap Winter Fuel Payments could disproportionately affect low-income pensioners in England, new analysis suggests.

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up acces

Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated by rich and poor alike, study finds The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from. At the same time, both the rich and the poor drastically overestimate the carbon footprint of the poorest people.

The ten organisations in Great Britain that carry out the highest number of animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary and scientific research - have released their annual statistics today.

Four in ten children in Central London who travelled to school by car switched to more active modes of transport, such as walking, cycling, or public transport, following the introduction of the Ultra-Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), according to new research.

One in three dying people in England and Wales was severely or overwhelmingly affected by pain in the last week of life, with bereaved people reporting how difficult it was to get joined-up support from health and care professionals at home.

A cancer drug that unlocks the anti-inflammatory power of the immune system could help to reduce the risk of future heart attacks, according to research part-funded by the British Heart Foundation.

A study involving 900 students in six countries found that a short programme of empathy lessons led to measurable, positive changes in their conduct, emotional awareness and curiosity about different cultures.

One in four patients in vegetative or minimally conscious state able to perform cognitive tasks, study finds Around one in four patients with severe brain injury who cannot move or speak - because the

Offering patients with concussion a type of brain scan known as diffusion tensor imaging MRI could help identify the one in three people who will experience persistent symptoms that can be life changing, say Cambridge researchers. Concussion is the number one neurological condition to affect adults, which is why we need a way of identifying those patients at greatest risk of persistent symptoms Virginia Newcombe Around one in 200 people in Europe every year will suffer concussion.

Cambridge researchers have cast doubt on whether new amyloid immunotherapy drugs will have the desired effect of significantly reducing the impact of Alzheimer's disease.

To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built around the diversity of indigenous and rural communities, and standing forests.

Our increasing demand for metals and minerals is putting over four thousand vertebrate species at risk, with the raw materials needed for clean energy infrastructure often located in global biodiversity hotspots, a study has found. Our report is a vital first step in avoiding biodiversity loss amidst the predicted drastic expansion of the mining industry.

Cambridge scientists have identified the genetic mutation that causes progressive retinal atrophy in English Shepherd Dogs, which results in incurable blindness, and developed a genetic test to help eliminate the disease from future generations of the breed. Now we have a DNA test, there's no reason why another English Shepherd Dog ever needs to be born with this form of progressive retinal atrophy - it gives breeders a way of totally eliminating the disease.

Work will begin soon on a new hospital that will transform how we diagnose and treat cancer. Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will treat patients across the East of England, but the research that takes place there promises to change the lives of cancer patients across the UK and beyond.

On World Population Day, University of Cambridge researchers bust some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging assumptions about everything from sex before marriage to migration and the health/wealth gap.

Nyobolt, a University of Cambridge spin-out company, has demonstrated its ultra-fast charging batteries in an electric sportscar prototype, going from 10% to 80% charge in under five minutes, twice the speed of the fastest-charging vehicles currently on the road.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a type of white blood cell - called a regulatory T cell - exists as a single large population of cells that constantly move throughout the body looking for, and repairing, damaged tissue. It's difficult to think of a disease, injury or infection that doesn't involve some kind of immune response, and our finding really changes the way we could control this response.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has signed an agreement for the design and construction of ANDES , the ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph.

An artificial pancreas developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has been granted approval by the USA's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use by individuals with type 1 diabetes aged two and older, including during pregnancy.

An increase in nightmares and hallucinations - or 'daymares' - could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, say an international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and King's College London.

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of dementia in clinical trials to test whether new drugs can slow the decline in various brain functions including memory and delay the onset of dementia.

A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was eleven months old at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

Cambridge researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging "digital afterlife industry" causing social and psychological harm.

Cambridge researchers will play key roles in two new centres dedicated to developing improved tests, treatments and potentially cures for thousands of people living with rare medical conditions.

A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide advice.

Cambridge researchers are helping lead countrywide trials to identify accurate and quick blood tests that can diagnose dementia, in a bid to improve the UK's shocking diagnosis rate. This is a ground-breaking study, to discover the best blood tests for dementia, not just Alzheimer's but any type of dementia and for anyone, whatever their background age and other health problems.

The University of Cambridge's Early Cancer Institute - the UK's only research facility dedicated to understanding early cancer - has received a landmark £11 million donation to support its vital work in the fight against cancer.

A new cultural history of the 1970s wellness industry offers urgent lessons for today. It reveals that in the seventies, wellness was neither narcissistic nor self-indulgent, and nor did its practice involve buying expensive, on-trend luxury products.