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Greater understanding of polycystic ovary syndrome

A new genetic study of over 200,000 women reveals the underlying mechanisms of polycystic ovary syndrome, as well as potential interventions.

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Mindfulness study to look at benefits in helping build resilience to stress among university students

Students at the University of Cambridge are to be offered free, eight-week mindfulness training to help build resilience against stress as part of a new research project launched to coincide with the start of term.

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Maintaining healthy DNA delays menopause

An international study of nearly 70,000 women has identified more than forty regions of the human genome that are involved in governing at what age a woman goes through menopause. The study, led by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Exeter, found that two thirds of those regions contain genes that act to keep...

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HeForShe’s #GetFree Tour visits Cambridge

University of Cambridge joins Universities across the UK and France for inaugural #GetFree Tour.

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Judging Chopin: notes from the jury

As 82 of the world’s most accomplished young pianists gather in Poland for the 17th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, Juror and College Fellow Professor John Rink reflects on the challenges and rewards of selecting the winning performances.

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Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women

Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard University, authors a study that finds women with degrees earn three times as much as non-graduates within a decade of leaving university.

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Vice-Chancellor says staying in the European Union is vital to maintain the UK’s role in world-leading research

‘Excellent research in the UK: Do we need the EU?’ event held at Downing College, Cambridge

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Gender politics at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Gender politics inform many of the debates, including on pornography, reproduction and transgender identities, at this year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas which runs from 19th October to 1st November.

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Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?

What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Christopher Page’s latest book ‘The Guitar in Tudor England’ reveals that 16th century students faced similar dilemmas – though their packing lists were rather different.

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New research leaves tumours with nowhere to hide

Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge medical team.

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Greater understanding of polycystic ovary syndrome

Mindfulness study to look at benefits in helping build resilience to stress among university students

Maintaining healthy DNA delays menopause

HeForShe’s #GetFree Tour visits Cambridge

Judging Chopin: notes from the jury

Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women

Vice-Chancellor says staying in the European Union is vital to maintain the UK’s role in world-leading research

Gender politics at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Wondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?

New research leaves tumours with nowhere to hide

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