UCL in the media
One soft drink a day increases Type 2 diabetes risk by a fifth
"The bottom line is that sugary soft drinks are not good for you - they have no nutritional value and there is evidence that drinking them every day can increase your relative risk for type 2 diabetes," said Professor Patrick Wolfe (UCL Statistical Science).
Read: Telegraph More: Independent Irish Times Latinos Post Health 24 BBC Brasil Pak TribuneStalled progress on GPA may benefit from national push
Professor Anthony Smith (UCL Vice Provost for Education), said that a pilot to introduce the US style grade-point average instead of the UK honours degree classifications is now unlikely to run before 2014-15.
Read: THEDiabetes cell treatment breakthrough
"In the long-term the treatment will become a one-off treatment for diabetes patients that will have a lasting effect," said Professor Hans Stauss (UCL Immunology).
Read: Camden New Journal More: Islington TribuneEuropean Commission must innovate to get value from €70 billion science funding programme
Dr Michael Galsworthy (UCL SLMS Research Support Centre) and Professor Martin McKee (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) argue that reforms are necessary in four key areas - reduction of red tape at the interface between academia and small business, better mapping and linking of the research funded, taking a bold lead in the open data drive, and ending inegalitarian salary policies that block Eastern European competitiveness.
Read: Science BusinessClenching fists 'can improve memory'
Prof Neil Burgess (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) said a larger study was needed to be certain of a specific effect on memory.
Read: BBC NewsInterdisciplinarity: Artistic merit
"The only way you get questions that have never really been asked before is to bring in different perspectives and question assumptions," said Dr Beau Lotto (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology).
Read: NatureManagerial salaries in the NHS have grown disproportionately over time
Professor Robert West (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health), Dr Paul Batchelor (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) and Professor John Yudkin (UCL Medicine) are among the 61 signatures on a letter to the Telegraph urging peers to cast their votes against the NHS reforms.
Read: TelegraphTweeting from Space
"I think space is a wonderful conduit for getting kids excited about science," said Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (UCL Physics & Astronomy).
Watch: BBC Two's NewsnightMigration: Council fears 'serious difficulty' from Romanian and Bulgarian changes
Professor John Salt (UCL Geography) comments on the news that Westminster City Council anticipates that it will be in "serious difficulty" if it does not plan for more migrants.
Read: BBCStone Age migration may have shaped today's Europeans
Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) comments on a new genetic study that reveals that many Europeans are descended from people who moved out of Spain and Portugal: "This is a relatively small sample, so the genetic shift could have arisen by pure chance."
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