UCL in the media
Drive to improve housing can bring unintended consequences
Clive Shrubsole (UCL Bartlett) looks at how the reduction of household CO2 emissions can have unintended consequences on buildings, inhabitants and the environment.
Read: The ConversationArty brains
A team led by Professor Chris McManus (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) has found that the brains of trained artists change as they practice, enhancing grey matter to improve motor control and procedural memory.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science' (from 22 mins 15 secs)Engineered vaginas grown in women for the first time
Vaginas grown in a lab from the recipients' own cells have been successfully transferred to the body for the first time, Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear Institute) describes the results as "very meaningful".
Read: New Scientist, More: Independent, BBC, Daily Mail, New York Times, Reuters, Globe and Mail, Times of India, China PostJohn Guillebaud: Passionate, perfectionist, persevering
Professor John Guillebaud (UCL Maternal and Fetal Medicine) answers the BMJ's questions about work, life and less serious matters.
Read: BMJConservation should protect the most genetically unique species, not just the most rare
Dr David Redding (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) discusses a new approach to conservation which looks at the genetic uniqueness of endangered species.
Read: The ConversationThe rise of the over fifty mothers
Dr Alastair Sutcliffe (UCL Institute of Child Health) discusses the growing number of women experiencing motherhood in their 50s including the risks, and benefits, which are associated with older mothers.
Read: Daily MailFunders punish open-access dodgers
Dr Paul Ayris (UCL Library Services) says the decision by four UK higher-education funders to consider only open-access papers posted to online institutional archives for the Research Excellence Framework will be "a game-changer".
Read: NatureGreen or white? Planted or painted roofs can cool buildings
Gurdane Virk (UCL Bartlett) looks at two potential ways of reducing the urban heat island effect - planted roofs and white painted roofs.
Read: The ConversationDark matter hunt
Dr Chamkaur Ghag (UCL Physics & Astronomy) explains what dark matter is and how the LUX detector experiments in South Dakota could help us detect one of the most mysterious particles in the universe.
Listen: BBC Radio Scotland 'Newsdrive' (from 1 hour 40 minutes)Boris Johnson launches MedCity to boost UK life sciences
Boris Johnson has launched MedCity, a partnership between UCLPartners, King's Health Partners, Imperial College AHSC, Oxford, Cambridge and the Greater London Authority, to establish London and the Greater South East as a world-leading cluster for life sciences.
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