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A total of 74 UCL academics are featured in Clarivate's annual 'Highly Cited Researchers List' 2024, recognising authors of the most influential research papers around the world.

Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a pioneering process using engineered bacteria to transform complex mixed waste into sustainable biopolymers including human therapeutics such as insulin, and bioplastics. A new study from the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology describes a novel biological method to convert mixed municipal waste-like fractions - including food scraps, plastics, and textiles - into valuable bio-products.

Around ten per cent of all'heterosexual couples of all'ages in the UK live in different households while maintaining a steady intimate relationship with each other, finds a new study led by a researcher at UCL. Published in the Journal of Family Issues, this new research found that in the UK, around four per cent of over 60s are in a relationship where they're living apart but together (LAT), which is comparable to that in other countries such as the United States, Netherlands, and Canada.

There is little evidence to support the increasing use of surveillance technologies on inpatient mental health wards, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.

A new chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has delivered promising results in treating patients with an aggressive blood cancer, in results from a clinical trial led by researchers at UCL and UCLH.

Men at risk of cardiovascular disease may develop cognitive conditions up to a decade before similarly at-risk women A study using UK Biobank data has found that high cardiovascular risk factors, including obesity, are linked to accelerated brain volume loss, affecting the regions in the temporal lobe that are crucial for memory and sensory processing.

Researchers are warning against the increasing use of antipsychotics, particularly in patients without ongoing psychiatrist review or physical health monitoring to detect early signs of heart disease and diabetes.

A loss of brain volume associated with new immunotherapies for Alzheimer's disease may be caused by the removal of amyloid plaques, rather than the loss of neurons or brain tissue, finds a study led by UCL researchers.

Treating bullying as everyone's problem can reduce bullying by up to 13%, finds new research. 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.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

Clinical language used around pregnancy loss can negatively affect patients' mental health and exacerbate their grief and trauma, and should be personalised where possible, according to research led by a UCL academic. In the first study of its kind, published today, social scientists from UCL, led by Dr Beth Malory (UCL English Language & Literature), gathered data from 391 participants from across the UK with lived experience of pregnancy loss to provide guidance for mass communication around loss.

Our researchers are helping to put people with lived experience of mental health distress at the forefront of health and social care research.

A new type of therapy that 'edits' a gene in patients with a rare heart condition has been shown to be safe and effective, according to research from UCL and the Royal Free Hospital.

Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers. Teenage girls are also increasingly more likely to skip school than boys across Anglophone countries. In 2022, 26% of all'Year 11 pupils in England reported playing truant at least once in the last fortnight.

Understanding how cancer cells grow and change could be the key to disrupting how they proliferate. Dr Griselda Awanis is using a new tracking technology to understand just this.

Care for stroke survivors urgently needs to focus on non-motor skill outcomes like fatigue, anxiety and reduced social participation to improve survivors' quality of life and minimise care needs, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and UCLH. The study, published in the Lancet Regional Health - Europe, is the first to comprehensively capture the wide-ranging impacts of non-motor skill outcomes in a large group of patients.

A researcher from The University of Manchester has bagged a prize for developing a powerful way to minimize suffering in animals when studying kidney disease.