UCL in the media
One year on from the Higgs boson find, has physics hit the buffers?
"Even the best supersymmetry fans would say that if - when - we go to higher energies , we see no sign of anything, and we manage to exclude the superpartner of the top quark up to a few TeV [teraelectronvolts], it's significantly less interesting," says Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics and Astronomy)
Read: GuardianSeven Ages of Science
In her new seven part programme on BBC Radio 4, Professor Lisa Jardine (UCL Centre for Editing Lives & Letters), explores the evolution of scientific endeavour in Britain over the last four centuries.
Listen: Part 1- The Age of Ingenuity, BBC Radio 4 Read: GuardianAcademics, healthcare experts to roll out cervical cancer screening to all women in Uganda by 2020
The initiative, a partnership between Makerere University, Mulago Hospital, Hospice Africa Uganda and UCL has helped screen approximately 20,000 women since its inception in 2005 - estimated to have prevented over 1,000 cases of cervical cancer.
Read: NewsMedicalUCL Qatar expands with launch of two new courses
"This is more welcome evidence of Qatar's determination to develop its core professional skills in partnership with excellence all over the world," says Professor Thilo Rehren (UCL Qatar).
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Dr Tomas Chamorro-Permuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology) believes that "with hectic lifestyle and increased expectations, there's huge scope for this trend and its positive results on our productivity."
Read: Evening StandardStroke care shakeup has saved lives and money
Closing stroke units in many London hospitals and sending patients to a few specialised centres has been a success, according to a paper by UCL health economists.
Read: Guardian More: UCL News, BMJ, Evening Standard, Camden New JournalHow walking to work could reduce your risk of diabetes
Dr Jenny Mindell (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) and researchers at Imperial College London examined how health is affected by the way people travel to work, using a survey of 20,000 Britons.
Read: Daily Mail More: Science World Report InformationDaily Daily Express MedNews HealthCentral Diabetes CBSNews BusinessNews£220,000 lab-grown burger is eaten for first time - but needed ketchup
Professor Chris Mason (UCL Biochemical Engineering) said that producing affordable laboratory grown meat could also lead to advances that would benefit patients. However, he cautioned: "Whilst the science looks achievable, the scalable manufacturing will require new game-changing innovation."
Read: FT More: Reuters Telegraph Channel 4 NewsThe demon drink: war on sugar
"Bugger all is known with certainty about the effects of diet on health," says Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology). "That's why so much is written about it. The whole problem is that it's all correlational stuff - there's no causality proven."
Read: GuardianOpen for business: How universities can boost our long-term recovery
Earlier this year, UCL licensed a gene therapy programme for haemophilia A to BioMarin Pharmaceuticals. As a result, the treatment will get access to the marketplace, and UCL will receive funds from any profits, that it will then plough back into research. Such collaboration offers a win-win scenario for all involved.
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