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Today , the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published initial findings on the new methods that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are developing to produce population estimates for Engand and Wales, using administrative data sources.

A drug commonly used to treat cystic fibrosis improved outcomes for patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia and could be used to treat other respiratory infections, according to clinical trial results from researchers at UCL, UCLH and the Francis Crick Institute.

Yellowstone Biosciences, a biotechnology spinout, has launched to pioneer new cancer treatments using advanced T-cell therapies based on ground-breaking research from the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at University of Oxford.

Housing lone children in Home Office child hotels, as occurred between 2021 and January 2024, increased the risks of trafficking and exploitation, according to a new report by UCL researchers working with ECPAT UK.

Two whole adult human hearts, one healthy and one diseased, have been imaged in unprecedented detail by researchers from UCL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), providing an invaluable resource for better understanding cardiovascular disease. The study, published in Radiology , is an atlas of the human heart that captures the anatomical structure of the whole organ down to 20 micrometres - half the width of a human hair.

Work will begin soon on a new hospital that will transform how we diagnose and treat cancer. Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will treat patients across the East of England, but the research that takes place there promises to change the lives of cancer patients across the UK and beyond.

41% of parents in England who have a child with long-term illness or disability have thought about suicide while caring for their child, new research has found.

An international team involving UCL researchers has shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing. Everything alive today derives from a single common ancestor known affectionately as LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor).

Daily sugar intake fell by 11g - equivalent to two and a half teaspoons - in adults in the year after the introduction of the UK's 'sugar tax' in 2018, finds a new study involving a UCL researcher. By the end of the first year of the sugar tax roll-out, daily sugar consumption also fell by 5g in children.

A new spinout will use AI and innovative experimental methods to improve the manufacturing of products such as drugs and fertilisers.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Stephen Shennan (UCL Archaeology) what may have caused the decimation of Neolithic farmers 5,200 years ago. Around 5,200 years ago, plague was not just present but common in six generations of one Swedish family, according to a  new study. The researchers analysed both the ancient DNA of these people's skeletal remains and the pathogens that left traces in them.

Writing in The Conversation, Professors Mark Maslin, David Thornalley and Dr Jack Wharton's (UCL Geography) new research has found the Gulf Stream, which carries warm water northwards through the Atlantic, was stronger and deeper 20,000 years ago than it is today. Twenty thousand years ago the world was locked into  a great ice age.

Finding a scientific explanation of subjective awareness means accepting that biology and culture work together to shape how brains evolve, write Professor David Oakley (UCL Psychology and Language Sciences) and Professor Peter Halligan of Cardiff University in The Conversation.