Jacqueline Garget

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Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI

2 weeks ago | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

"We're in a time of unprecedented change. We must accelerate progress towards equitably rebalancing how humans and nature coexist across the world. AI is our chance to do it!" Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor of Planetary Computing, Department of Computer Science and Technology “Around one third of the world’s land surface has been transformed for human use in the last 60 years. It’s mad just how terrible local decision-making can be for preserving global biodiversity.
Snakes in potted olive trees ‘tip of the iceberg’ of ornamental plant trade hazards

Jan 16, 2025 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Continental European snakes, geckos and Italian wall lizards are making their way to northern Europe undetected among imports of ornamental olive trees destined for gardens and green spaces. These hitchhiking intruders can become invasive pests that cause extensive damage to the natural environment - as has happened in previously snake-free islands of the Mediterranean like Majorca.
Azim Surani on the earliest stages of life

Oct 6, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Azim Surani has followed his curiosity for over half a century, rewriting science in the process. I was convinced that I was going to get a mouse to have a virgin birth on Christmas Day. Another scientist at Cambridge had managed to switch on the development of mouse eggs in the lab as if they’d been fertilised. It was like magic. I wondered if I could get them to develop to term.
Mental Health Overhaul

Oct 3, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Nobody needs reminding that just a few years ago we were all plunged into a state of maximal uncertainty. We didn’t know what was going on, we couldn’t predict what would happen next, and the lockdowns were completely disruptive to normal life. Drug treatments and therapies for depression and anxiety do exist - but they’re only effective in 50% of people so it’s a ‘try and see’ approach, often with side-effects along the way.
Are weight loss jabs the solution to the obesity crisis?

Sep 29, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Jean Adams, Professor of Dietary Public Health at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Epidemiology Unit andMartin White, Professor of Population Health Research at the University of Cambridge’s MRC Epidemiology Unit If we want to address high levels of obesity and weight-related diseases in our population, we need both to treat people living with those conditions and prevent more people developing them.
Genes reveal how to save wildlife from invasive minks

Aug 20, 2024 | eastangliabylines.co.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Many have said it’s an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink – the lasting hangover of mink farming – unbelievably quickly. Early trappers of American mink were onto a lucrative business: across the world people were going crazy for its fur. UK mink farms, first opened in the 1920s, proliferated into the hundreds at the industry’s height. But, through escape or release, mink ventured out across Britain’s landscape.
The mink must go

Aug 12, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

A new generation of trappers is ending a catastrophic UK invasion symbols. Many have said it's an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink - the lasting hangover of mink farming - unbelievably quickly. Early trappers of American mink were onto a lucrative business: across the world people were going crazy for its fur.
Learning from experience:

Jul 14, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Patients are vital to advances in tackling cancer Involving the community that benefits from the work may sound obvious, but patient involvement in cancer research has only recently become an accepted priority. “If we want a new scientific discovery or new treatment to be accepted, we have to explain it properly and build trust with the people who are going to use it.
Egging on vital research

Jul 10, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Dr Jenny Gallop is studying the actin cytoskeleton, a system of long filaments that are vital in embryonic development - and frogs play a key role. Gallop wants to understand how the actin cytoskeleton is involved in changing the shape of cells and moving them around as an embryo develops into a fully-formed organism.
Cambridge scientists elected as Members of the European Molecular Biology Organisation

Jul 8, 2024 | cam.ac.uk | Jacqueline Garget

Five Cambridge researchers join the community of over 2,100 leading life scientists today as the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) announces its newest Members in its 60th anniversary year. They are among 120 scientists from across Europe and beyond that have been elected to the EMBO Membership, an honour that celebrates research excellence and outstanding achievements in the life sciences.