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Whole genome sequencing offered to breast cancer patients is likely to identify unique genetic features that could either guide immediate treatment or help match patients to clinical trials for over 15,000 women a year, say scientists at the University of Cambridge. The UK is a genuine world-leader in terms of its ability to do whole genome sequencing in the NHS through the Genomic Medicine Service.

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a language to GCSE is treated as optional - and not necessarily strongly encouraged - new research shows. The University of Cambridge study of 615 state schools in England found that while socio-economic background does not have a significant impact on students' desire to study languages, poorer students are disproportionately concentrated in schools that give languages lower priority.

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge.

Mortality after emergency abdominal surgery is more than three times higher in the least developed countries compared to the most developed. Yet among those who undergo surgery, injuries tend to be less severe - raising concerns that those most critically injured are not even reaching the operating theatre.

Life-saving opportunities to prevent suicide among autistic people are being missed because systemic barriers make it difficult for them to access NHS support during times of mental health crisis, according to new research.

Scientists have found a way to stop brain cancer cells spreading by essentially 'freezing' a key molecule in the brain.

Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content 'from outgroup hate to ingroup love'.

An artificial heart valve made from a new type of plastic could be a step closer to use in humans, following a successful long-term safety test in animals. A research team, led by the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, demonstrated that the polymer material used to make the artificial heart valve is safe following a six-month test in sheep.

Cambridge researchers play key role in evidence leading to approval of new treatment for hereditary blindness The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has today announced the approval of a new treatment for a form of hereditary blindness for use on the NHS in England. Cambridge researchers played a pivotal role in providing the evidence that led to this important development.

Users of the NHS Active 10 app, designed to encourage people to become more active, immediately increased their amount of brisk and non-brisk walking upon using the app, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge.

High levels of a hormone found in cells in the gut could underlie many cases of chronic diarrhoea and help explain up to 40% of cases of patients with irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of Cambridge.

An analysis of studies incorporating data from almost 30 million people has highlighted the role that air pollution - including that coming from car exhaust emissions - plays in increased risk of dementia. Tackling air pollution can deliver long-term health, social, climate, and economic benefits Haneen Khreis Dementias such as Alzheimer's disease are estimated to affect more than 57.4 million people worldwide, a number that is expected to almost triple to 152.8 million cases by 2050.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events-buying valuable time to coordinate relief efforts and reduce humanitarian impacts.

Thousands of women who undergo radiotherapy for low-risk breast cancer could be spared some of the side effects of treatment after a study confirmed that more targeted treatments are just as effective at controlling the disease in the long term.

With countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-fold increase in the global tech sector's energy use by 2040.

A teenager who has lost family members including her mother because of a rare genetic hereditary illness has become the first patient in the UK and Europe to have a new treatment developed by Cambridge researchers and approved for use on the NHS.

Artists urgently need stronger defences to protect their work from being used to train AI models without their consent. Even when using tools like NightShade, artists are still at risk of their work being used for training AI models without their consent Hanna Foerster So say a team of researchers who have uncovered significant weaknesses in two of the art protection tools most used by artists to safeguard their work.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built, has revealed its 'first look' images at the start of its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioural traits that have made human societies able to thrive and expand, according to a new hypothesis proposed by researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

Before the 'Out of Africa' migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging habitats including African forests and deserts, which was key to the long-term success of our species' dispersal. It's incredibly exciting that we were able to look back in time and pinpoint the changes that enabled our ancestors to successfully migrate out of Africa.

Cambridge researchers urge public health bodies like the NHS to provide trustworthy, research-driven alternatives to platforms driven by profit.

Whistleblowers can contact journalists more securely thanks to a new confidential and anonymous messaging technology co-developed by University of Cambridge researchers and software engineers at the Guardian.

Researchers in Cambridge are calling for additional scans to be added to breast screening for women with very dense breasts.

Nine outstanding Cambridge scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory.

A new treatment approach significantly improves survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancers, according to Cambridge researchers. It is rare to have a 100% survival rate in a study like this and for these aggressive types of cancer Jean Abraham In a trial where cancers were treated with chemotherapy followed by a targeted cancer drug before surgery, 100% of patients survived the critical three-year period post-surgery.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry particular BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants are offered surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes as this dramatically reduces their risk of ovarian cancer. Now, Cambridge researchers have shown that this procedure - known as bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) - is associated with a substantial reduction in the risk of early death among these women, without any serious side-effects.

A majority of individuals who are deaf or have hearing loss face significant communication barriers when accessing care through the National Health Service (NHS), with nearly two-thirds of patients missing half or more of vital information shared during appointments.