UCL in the media
Royal Charter for chiropractors angers critics
Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Biosciences) has described the awarding of the Royal Charter as "a bad day for reason". "I can only presume that it happened because of deep scientific illiteracy in Department of Health, compound by equal illiteracy in the Privy Council," he said.
Read: THEWilliam Turnbull obituary
A subtle and expressive sculptor who was one of the leading artists of the post-war generation.
Read: GuardianJudaica From Tuck Collection in London to Be Auctioned
UCL set up a museum for Gustave Tuck's silver ritual objects, and they narrowly survived 1940s air raids that destroyed campus buildings.
Read: NY TimesParasitic worms 'treat diarrhoea'
Professor Graham Rook (UCL Research Department of Infection) says a number of research teams were investigating the effects of parasitic worms in various conditions. "We co-evolved with these things, so they had to be tolerated," he added.
Read: BBC NewsIreland to clarify abortion rules after woman's death
"The vagueness ... gives excessive scope to doctors to follow their own personal views or it means even if they want to give the treatment, they'll fall foul of the law," says Dr Ronan McCrea (UCL Laws).
Read: ReutersFunding boost for university science departments
Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, has announced substantial government grants to UCL to help turn research into business.
Read: ITV News More: MSN The EngineerA crash course in Danish for fans of The Killing
Jesper Hansen (UCL Scandinavian Studies) gives a crash course in Danish for fans of detective Sarah Lund and the cult Danish police drama The Killing.
Watch: GuardianAlzheimer's tied to mutation harming immune response
Dr Rita Guerreiro, Professor John Hardy (both UCL Institute of Neurology) and colleagues have identified a rare gene defect that triples the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Read: NY Times More: Daily Mail WSJ Times of India Huffington Post Reuters AFP UCL NewsHumans Ate Grass? Early Hominins In Africa Did 3.5 Million Years Ago, Study Says
The results imply that at least one species of hominin had already become a generalist that had adapted to a broader diet, foraging opportunistically in more open terrain for a wider range of foods than chimpanzees preferred, says Professor Christopher Dean (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology).
Read: Huffington PostTaking the measure of entrepreneurs
Professor Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) and colleagues have devised a psychometric test that they reckon can identify and measure the entrepreneur in everyone.
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