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The Academy of Medical Sciences has announced its new Fellows for 2024, which includes two professors from the University's College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences.

An increase in nightmares and hallucinations - or 'daymares' - could herald the onset of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, say an international team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge and King's College London.

UCL researchers are to partner with RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, to explore how the human brain interacts with built environments, and how understanding this can help design sustainable surroundings that enhance people's health and wellbeing.

More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of dementia in clinical trials to test whether new drugs can slow the decline in various brain functions including memory and delay the onset of dementia.

A new BBC documentary, The Jennings vs Alzheimer's, explores the discoveries made by researchers at UCL and UCLH that have given hope for Alzheimer's disease over the past four decades, and the very special family that helped make it happen.

A baby girl born deaf can hear unaided for the first time, after receiving gene therapy when she was eleven months old at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

A new BBC documentary, The Jennings v Alzheimer's, explores the discoveries made by researchers at UCL and UCLH that have given hope for Alzheimer's disease over the past four decades, and the very special family that helped make it happen.

Thousands of patients in the UK could benefit from a new screening trial to detect prostate cancer.

Research by the University of Southampton and Lancaster University has found that neurodivergent graduates feel confident about their careers skills and value their degree-related knowledge for gaining future employment. However, the participatory project , funded by Research England and supported by AGCAS , also showed that adverse early employment experiences, including prejudice and discrimination, can affect their ability to set and achieve career goals and develop career capital - the resources, networks and confidence that can help them succeed.

Cambridge researchers will play key roles in two new centres dedicated to developing improved tests, treatments and potentially cures for thousands of people living with rare medical conditions.

Part of the research team in 2020 examining the initial finds (at the back) of the new discovery made by Ruby and Justin Reynolds. Additional sections of the bone were subsequently discovered. From left to right, Dr Dean Lomax, Ruby Reynolds, Justin Reynolds and Paul de la Salle. Credit: Dr Dean Lomax A palaeontologist at The University of Manchester has identified the fossilised remains of a second gigantic jawbone measuring more than two metres long.

Innovative carbon beads, invented by researchers at UCL, reduce bad bacteria and inflammation in animal models, which are linked to liver cirrhosis and other serious health issues.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From an experiment lasting millionths of a billionth of a second, to fellowships in biology and medicine, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial.

A 34-year follow-up of one of the oldest and most comprehensively studied birth cohorts is underway on the Isle of Wight to reveal new insights into allergies and asthma.

The University of Cambridge's Early Cancer Institute - the UK's only research facility dedicated to understanding early cancer - has received a landmark £11 million donation to support its vital work in the fight against cancer.

The public are being encouraged to eat more wild fish, such as mackerel, anchovies and herring, which are often used within farmed salmon feeds. These oily fish contain essential nutrients including calcium, B12 and omega-3 but some are lost from our diets when we just eat the salmon fillet.

New RVC research finds inbreeding is contributing factor to mid and late-term pregnancy loss in Thoroughbreds New research from the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), in collaboration with Cornell University, has found that inbreeding is a contributing factor to mid and late-term pregnancy loss (MLPL), but not early pregnancy loss (EPL) in Thoroughbreds.

The oceans were full of large apex predators 66 million years ago, in contrast to modern times.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From research to explain what causes a migrane, to funding that will allow researchers to deliver unprecedented imaging of the beating human heart, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial.

New species of duckbill dinosaur found in Africa indicates they were diverse, with at least three species inhabiting north Africa at the end of the Cretaceous.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From a partnership to provide accommodation scholarships for care experienced and estranged students, to research on how arthropods could adapt to climate change, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial. Rent-free scholarships Imperial has partnered with the Unite Foundation to support three accommodation scholarships for care experienced and estranged undergraduate students starting in the 2024/25 academic year.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From a partnership to provide accommodation scholarships for care experienced and estranged students, to research on how arthropods could adapt to climate change, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial. Rent-free scholarships Imperial has partnered with the Unite Foundation to support three accommodation scholarships for care experienced and estranged undergraduate students starting in the 2024/25 academic year.