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When you’re a Legal Deposit library holding more than eight million books and manuscripts, one million maps, and have been entitled to a copy of every UK publication since 1710, space can be at something of a premium.

A team of researchers from across Cambridge has shed light on a long-standing debate about why the immune system weakens with age. Their findings, published today in Science, show that immune cells in older tissues lack coordination and exhibit much more variability in gene expression (activity) compared with their younger...

OCD can be a devastating condition: therapy and medication often doesn’t work, leaving many people unable to hold down a job or a relationship – or even to leave their house. In our series of films, science writer David Adam looks at how research at Cambridge using animals helps us understand what is happening in the brain...

‘Big data’ study finds that children from families with limited education have strongest long-term response to teacher encouragement, and are more likely to progress to university as a result.