News: covid-19
Remote monitoring successfully tracks Covid-19 progression over time
19 August 2022
As the UK licences a new Covid-19 vaccine ahead of this autumn’s booster campaign, researchers here have unveiled another tool that could help control the spread of the virus. More …
January event to showcase healthcare research
14 December 2020
A Healthcare Research Showcase on 29 January 2021 will highlight some of the healthcare projects we're undertaking – including using body sound recordings to train computer models to recognise Covid-19, and employing AI techniques in the quest to improve cancer treatment. More …
'Honour among thieves': the evolution of a cybercrime market
5 November 2020
Researchers at the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre here will today reveal what they’ve learned from analysing hundreds of thousands of illicit trades that took place in an underground cybercrime forum over the last two years. More …
Your phone 'could tell us if you have coronavirus'
27 July 2020
A mobile phone app that collects recordings of its users coughing and breathing has been used by researchers here successfully to predict whether people have coronavirus. More …
Lockdown 'helps fuel rise in cybercrime'
2 June 2020
Take extra care before buying facemasks or testing kits online, or responding to texts apparently sent to you by the UK government or the NHS. Because while lockdown has helped reduce the spread of the coronavirus, it is also helping fuel a rise in cybercrime. More …
The essential travel assistant that could guide us out of lockdown
28 April 2020
Image: You. Smart. Thing. Covid-19 Essential Travel Assistant. More …
One Stop Epidemy Resource
16 April 2020
An international team of developers, including a visiting student in this Department, has created an open-source online hospital resource management system of benefit to both doctors and families. More …
Using our skills to help others
7 April 2020
“We are privileged to have so much in Cambridge – and we should be
using it to help others.”
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Helping Africa from afar
7 April 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has cut short one researcher’s planned sabbatical year developing AI in sub-Saharan Africa. More …
New app collects the sounds of COVID-19
6 April 2020
Researchers here have led the development of a new app that will collect the sounds made by those suffering from the coronavirus. More …
Enlisting smartphone data in the fight against coronavirus
2 April 2020
A smartphone app to map epidemics that was developed in
this department a decade ago is seeing a resurgence of interest
because of the COVID-19 outbreak
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Advice on moving conferences from the real to the virtual world
2 April 2020
A faculty member here is part of a taskforce advising conference
organisers on how to move their events from the real to the virtual
world
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Modelling demand for intensive care beds
1 April 2020
NHS regions in England are using a computer model co-developed by
this department to help them predict the surge in demand for intensive
care beds caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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