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Autolus Therapeutics, a UCL spinout company, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, for a next-generation CAR-T cell therapy, developed to treat adults with an aggressive blood cancer.

Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) researchers at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), in partnership with The University of Manchester (UoM) are leading UK first research into youth worker services for young people with long-term conditions (LTCs). Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the research will investigate how current youth worker services for children and young people with physical or mental health LTCs are organised, provided and experienced across the UK.

The world's snow and ice regions are at risk of irreversible loss and damage. The warning was made in a new report from an international team of more than 50 leading cryosphere scientists, including Professor Chris Stokes in our Department of Geography.

Archaeologists from Durham University and University of Al-Qadisiyah in Iraq have pinpointed the location of a famous early Islamic battle using declassified spy satellite images.

A new treatment that could prevent blindness in children with the CLN2 type Batten disease has been trialled by clinicians and researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).

Experts will create an integrated care pathway to standardise care and improve the patient experience using digital technologies.

The role of voluntary organisations in providing support to young people at risk of self-harm or suicide is to be investigated in a new research partnership.

Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people disproportionately, argue researchers ahead of the upcoming 29th United Nations Climate Summit (COP29) in Azerbaijan.

The largest trial of its kind in the UK has shown how a low-cost, structured, anti-bullying programme can improve social dynamics in primary schools and reduce victimisation.

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees' ability to store large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. But, writing in the journal Nature Geoscience , an international group of scientists, including from the University of Cambridge,  argue that tree planting at high latitudes will accelerate, rather than decelerate, global warming.

Adding small amounts of exercise into daily routine, such as climbing stairs or cycling errands, could help to reduce blood pressure, with just five additional minutes a day estimated to yield improvements, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of Sydney.

New research has revealed 15,800-year-old engravings of catching fish in traps. The ice-age camp site of Gönnersdorf on the banks of the Rhine, Germany, has revealed a groundbreaking discovery that sheds new light on early fishing practices.

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have secured more than $3m to study the role the gut microbiome plays in post-operative outcomes for patients with Crohn's disease.