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UCL has been ranked 12th in the 2016 Guardian league table of universities.
Read: Guardian£125 Superdrug gene test
Professor Joyce Harper (UCL Reproductive Health) says there is a certain pointlessness to testing for diseases which have no cure, even if the tests could say with certainty that a person was at risk.
Read: Daily MailNHS database 'could do unintended harm'
Commenting on plans for an online NHS database, Jenny Woodman (UCL Institute of Child Health) says: "Teenagers may find it difficult to refuse parental requests for access."
Read: Daily MailHope for heart failure patients as 'pioneering' treatment helps the organ to heal itself
Research co-led by Dr Linda Klotz (UCL Institute of Child Health) has identified a new way to heal a patient's heart following a heart attack.
Read: Daily MailUK is a knockout performer on pound-for-pound basis
Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education) comments on the UK's university system being ranked second in the world in the 2015 Universitas 21 Ranking of National Higher Education Systems.
Read: THE (£)Rejected MA was too critical of white establishment, says academic
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (UCL Philosophy) says that he has been rejected for a full-time job because his proposed course is too challenging to white-dominated academia.
Read: THE (£), More: IndependentThe jailed opposition leader who might hold the key to Venezuela's future
Dr Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig (both UCL Management Science & Innovation) discuss whether a video by Leopoldo López, Venezuela's most prominent opposition leader, could lead to the beginning of the end for Maduro's regime.
Read: The ConversationUCL studies closure plans for overseas campuses
UCL's new Global Engagement Strategy confirms a move away from a model of branch campuses towards a network of local partnerships, outlining a number of initiatives to increase global impact.
Read: FT (£), More: THE, THE (2)New relay selection fix for Tor to spoil spooks' fun
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) discusses Astoria, a new Tor client specifically designed to prevent traffic analysis.
Read: The RegisterOldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans
The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered and they are 700,000 years older than any tools found before. Dr Ignacio de la Torre (UCL Institute of Archaeology) explains why this is a game-changing find.
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