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Leading UCL academics joined Dr Soumya Swaminanthan, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Chief Scientist for this year's UCL-Lancet lecture in a seminal event to discuss the role of science in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patients with a number of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) subtypes will be used to trial a novel cancer treatment developed by researchers at UCL, which holds "great promise" for several incurable conditions.

UCL has sent a total of 1,160 breathing aids to India and 130 to Nepal to support the countries' fight against a Covid-19 surge.

The growing challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), where germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them, is at the heart of a new funding collaboration involving UCL researchers.

UCL's next generation sequencing (NGS) facility will analyse positive Covid-19 tests from travellers arriving at UK airports: By identifying new SARS-CoV-2 variants, UCL scientists will play a key role in the UK Government's Covid Recovery plan.

UCL's next generation sequencing (NGS) facility will analyse positive Covid-19 tests from travellers arriving at UK airports: By identifying new SARS-CoV-2 variants, UCL scientists will play a key role in the UK Government's Covid Recovery plan.

Levels of antibodies in the blood of vaccinated people that are able to recognise and fight the new SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant first discovered in India (B.1.617.2) are, on average, lower than those against variants previously circulating in the UK, finds a new study involving UCL.

The cost of offsetting corporate carbon emissions needs to increase ten-fold to drive meaningful climate action, says a landmark report by UCL and Trove Research.

Sasha Roseneil, UCL's Pro-Provost (Equity and Inclusion), outlines a plan of action following media reports of sexism and racism in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Scientists at UCL are preparing to move into a new ultra-modern research facility which will enable them to work more closely with clinicians to develop revolutionary treatments and cures for some of the most devastating diseases of the immune system.

The fact most mental health problems begin in adolescence doesn't mean that most adolescents will suffer mental illness, writes Honorary Lecturer Dr Lucy Foulkes (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences).

BBC Radio 4 has worked closely with experts from the UCL Centre for the Study of Legacies of British Slavery on a 7-part series called Descendants looking at how far the legacy of slavery reaches into modern Britain.

Professor Simon Lewis and Dr Chris Brierley (both UCL Geography) explain the modelling they undertook to see what would happen if all farmland in the tropics was turned back into forests, concluding that it would have less influence on the climate than might be assumed.

Professor Haim Yacobi (UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit) co-authors an article on the effect that urban planning has in Israel-Palestine, saying that even supposedly neutral urban trends such as privatisation and gentrification can be co-opted to divide areas.

As Dominic Cummings accuses the UK Government of 'group-think' over Covid-19, Dr Colin Fisher (UCL School of Management) explains what the term actually means, as well as how we can avoid it.

A new BBC One documentary sees a UCL academic eating ultra-processed food for one month, to highlight the harm it causes the body and brain.

UCL and UCLH neurologists have published the first clinical observations of patients who experienced an ischaemic stroke, the most common form of stroke, following an Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine.

UCL's PEARL building in Dagenham, east London, has received an A+ rating for energy performance, making it UCL's first net zero carbon building, with the export of surplus energy from solar panels expected to make it carbon negative.

It would be highly unwise for referendums on the constitutional future of Ireland to be called without a clear plan for what follows, concludes the final report by the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland, established by the UCL Constitution Unit.

PhD candidate Osnat Katz (UCL Science & Technology Studies) explains what causes a lunar eclipse, and how best to watch the total lunar eclipse taking place in parts of Australia, Asia and the western parts of North and South America on May 26.

Science has played a key role in policymaking during the pandemic and must continue to be central if we are to make breakthroughs in global issues, says Professor Ruth Morgan (UCL Security & Crime Science).

Dr Anne Lane, Managing Director of UCL Business, refutes claims that the way European universities commercialise their research stymies innovation and holds back entrepreneurs It has been suggested r

Fewer than 1 in 3 people (29.1%) say that they 'completely' understand the current UK Covid-19 lockdown rules, find UCL researchers as part of the Covid-19 Social Study.

PhD candidate Osnat Katz (UCL Science & Technology Studies) outlines the history of attempted Mars landings and says that, despite recent successes, landing will never be a routine and risk-free procedure.

This week we meet Selina Wray, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.