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Life Sciences - 19.05.2025 - Today

Health - Life Sciences - 15.05.2025

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the heart could help to detect a life-threatening heart disease and enable clinicians to better predict which patients are most at risk, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.
Psychology - Life Sciences - 15.05.2025

By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory.
Pedagogy - Life Sciences - 08.05.2025

Parents' genes - even when not directly inherited by a child - may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report by UCL researchers.
Environment - Life Sciences - 08.05.2025

The North Korean government engages in unsustainable and illegal wildlife trade, which includes species protected under its own laws and poses a threat to biodiversity recovery in the region, finds a groundbreaking new study by UCL researchers.
Health - Life Sciences - 07.05.2025
Sparking curious minds
Innovation - Life Sciences - 06.05.2025
Imperial showcases UK engineering biology leadership at SynBioBeta
Life Sciences - Health - 06.05.2025
Breakthrough uses artificial intelligence to identify different brain cells in action
A decades-old challenge in neuroscience has been solved by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to identify the electrical signatures of different types of brain cells for the first time, as part of a study in mice led by researchers from UCL. Brains are made up of many different types of neurons (nerve cells in the brain), each of which are thought to play different roles in processing information.
Life Sciences - Materials Science - 05.05.2025
Solena raises $6.7m to create next-gen textiles using AI and synthetic biology
Life Sciences - Psychology - 30.04.2025

Health - Life Sciences - 30.04.2025

A new metagenomic test developed by researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) is providing clinical teams around the country with vital information about rare infections - allowing for patients to access targeted treatments they desperately need.
Life Sciences - Health - 29.04.2025

A UCL research team has found clues as to why some nerve cells die in dementia and not others, in a new study in fruit flies. The Alzheimer's Research study, published in Cell Reports , is helping to answer one of the biggest questions in dementia research, which is crucial to finding new treatments to slow or stop the condition from developing.
Health - Life Sciences - 29.04.2025

Professor Ruth Itzhaki, who's pioneering research has advanced our understanding of what causes Alzheimer's Disease (AD), has made the prestigious STATUS list for 2025.
Life Sciences - 25.04.2025
Empathic comforting varies more within bonobo and chimpanzee species than between them
Researchers have offered new insight into how our closest ape relatives - bonobos and chimpanzees - show empathy towards each other through consolatory behaviours.
Health - Life Sciences - 23.04.2025

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Vlasimir Litvak (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) discusses how advances in adaptive deep brain stimulation are being used to treat Parkinson's. Although the brain is our most complex organ, the ways to treat it have historically been rather simple. Typically, surgeons lesioned (damaged) a structure or a pathway in the hope that this would "correct the imbalance" that led to the disease.
Life Sciences - History & Archeology - 22.04.2025

Astronomy & Space - Life Sciences - 22.04.2025

Health - Life Sciences - 18.04.2025
Throwing a ’spanner in the works’ of our cells’ machinery could help fight cancer, fatty liver disease... and hair loss
Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a process vital to all life on Earth.
Life Sciences - Health - 17.04.2025
Warwick life scientist and microbiologist awarded prestigious BBSRC Fellowship
Health - Life Sciences - 16.04.2025
Common genetic variants linked to drug-resistant epilepsy
Certain common genetic changes might make some people with focal epilepsy less responsive to seizure medications, finds a new global study led by researchers at UCL and UTHealth Houston. Focal epilepsy is a condition where seizures start in one part of the brain. It is the most common type of epilepsy.
Life Sciences - Psychology - 15.04.2025
University of Glasgow joins call for more ’joyful buildings’ at Humanise Summit
Health - Life Sciences - 14.04.2025

Health - Life Sciences - 07.04.2025
One in 3,000 people at risk of punctured lung from faulty gene - almost 100 times higher than previous estimate
As many as one in 3,000 people could be carrying a faulty gene that significantly increases their risk of a punctured lung, according to new estimates from Cambridge researchers.
Health - Life Sciences - 07.04.2025
Two early career bioscientists will tackle health challenges with prestigious award
Life Sciences - Health - 04.04.2025

New research from The University of Manchester may reshape our understanding of what happens to the immune system when we fast. Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), the study on mice shows that the brain's hypothalamus controls how the immune system adapts during fasting, through a handful of highly specialized neurons responsible for making animals hungry.
Health - Life Sciences - 02.04.2025
Imperial’s Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg elected prestigious Schmidt Science Fellow
Health - Life Sciences - 21.03.2025

Health - Life Sciences - 18.03.2025
UK’s first Fellowship in brain tumour neurology to be based at the University of Glasgow
Life Sciences - Environment - 18.03.2025

Professor Aida Andres and Harrison Ostridge (both UCL Biosciences) explain their study which involved collecting faecal samples from hundreds of wild chimpanzees across 17 African countries as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are humans' closest living relatives, sharing over 98% of our DNA.
Health - Life Sciences - 17.03.2025

People suffering from severe alcohol and opioid addiction are to be offered a revolutionary new technique involving planting electrodes in the brain to modulate brain activity and cravings and improve self-control.
Life Sciences - Event - 11.03.2025

Life Sciences - 07.03.2025

Writing in The Conversation, Dr George Butler (UCL Cancer Institute) explains how his research found that larger species do have more cancer compared to smaller ones.
Health - Life Sciences - 07.03.2025
Microbiota transplantation offers new hope against cotton leaf curl disease
Researchers at the University of Glasgow and the Forman Christian College University, Pakistan, are pioneering a groundbreaking approach to combat the devastating Cotton Leaf Curl Disease (CLCuD) through microbiota transplantation.
Life Sciences - 06.03.2025
Uncertain future for amazing heat-resistant fish
Despite acclimatising to one of the hottest marine habitats on earth, reef fishes still face an uncertain future, an international team of scientists has found. The team led by New York University Abu Dhabi and University of Manchester researchers show that fishes living in the Arabian Gulf reefs have - remarkably - adapted to extreme summer temperatures, which are akin to a hot bath.
Environment - Life Sciences - 05.03.2025
Researchers help protect migratory birds
Researchers from our top-rated Biosciences department in collaboration with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), have conducted a study to understand the challenges faced by migratory birds across Europe and Africa. The study found that many species lack consistent protection during their long journeys, leading to population declines.
Life Sciences - Health - 05.03.2025
Genetic causes of rare condition linked to hearing loss and infertility found
Latest research led from Manchester could revolutionise the diagnosis of Perrault syndrome, a rare genetic condition that results in hearing loss.
Life Sciences - 05.03.2025
Bonobos and chimps give insight into early human sexual behaviour
Using sex to manage social tension dates back over six million years to humans' common ape ancestor, according to a new study.
Health - Life Sciences - 05.03.2025
Genomics to revolutionise treatment of childhood rare diseases
A simple genomics blood test could improve treatment and care for childhood epilepsy, but more investment is needed to make access fair and securely join up the data, finds a new study involving researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH).
Health - Life Sciences - 04.03.2025

Images captured by UCL researchers have been showcased in the fourth annual National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) 'A Moment of Discovery' image competition.
Career - Life Sciences - 27.02.2025

Life Sciences - 26.02.2025
Tiny changes in gene expression can lead to big differences in eye size
Health - Life Sciences - 25.02.2025
The Waterloo Foundation awards £1.25m to study the impact of nutrition on child brain development
Health - Life Sciences - 21.02.2025

Four young children have gained life-changing improvements in sight following treatment with a pioneering new genetic medicine through UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital, with the support of MeiraGTx.
Life Sciences - Campus - 20.02.2025
Sue Iversen (1940-2025)
Life Sciences - Health - 18.02.2025
Artificial human DNA study raises urgent ethical questions for society
Researchers from The University of Manchester - in collaboration with the Universities of Granada, Lund, and Oslo - have conducted the first-ever ethical analysis of artificial human DNA. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics , explores how this emerging technology could impact identity, privacy and even reproduction, raising urgent questions for society.
Life Sciences - Health - 14.02.2025

Life Sciences - Environment - 12.02.2025
Local fishermen rescue humpback whale off the coast of Skye
Chemistry - Life Sciences - 10.02.2025
Recyclable artificial vision system could be sweet for the environment
A new form of energy-efficient artificial vision system inspired by the human brain and made in part using honey could help reduce the impact of electronic waste.
Veterinary - Life Sciences - 06.02.2025
Study identifies genes associated with higher risk of fracture in horses
New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has identified more than 100 genes that may contribute to bone fracture risk in Thoroughbreds. These findings will inform further research into genetic risk factors, contributing to health and well-being efforts and supporting the development of novel interventions to reduce fracture risk in horses.
Health - Life Sciences - 30.01.2025

Research by experts at the Department of Paediatrics , and published in the European Journal of Paediatrics shows that early interventions of support to the development of children living in disadvantaged settings, can significantly improve their neurodevelopmental outcomes during early childhood.
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History & Archeology - Today
Spotlight on: Professor Anna Leone - Bridging ancient history and heritage preservation across North Africa
Spotlight on: Professor Anna Leone - Bridging ancient history and heritage preservation across North Africa
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Information Science - May 16
Experiential Learning: MA Library and Archives students visit Restore Information Management
Experiential Learning: MA Library and Archives students visit Restore Information Management
Environment - May 16
Can brightening clouds cool the planet? Manchester-led project to explore innovative solution to avert climate tipping points
Can brightening clouds cool the planet? Manchester-led project to explore innovative solution to avert climate tipping points

Social Sciences - May 15
Opinion: The Supreme Court's ruling on gender raises serious questions for schools
Opinion: The Supreme Court's ruling on gender raises serious questions for schools
