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Professor Kazuya Saito (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society) has been announced as one of 25 young academics to receive the 20th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize, recognising him as a future leader of…

A major international collaboration of 356 scientists led by UCL researchers has found almost identical patterns of tree diversity across the world’s tropical forests. The study of over one million trees across 1,568 locations,…

People diagnosed with a life-threatening cardiac condition have been given new hope, thanks to a ground-breaking new drug that protects the heart, developed by researchers from UCL and the Royal Free Hospital. The trial results, …

Prototypes of surgical meshes that can be seen clearly on CT scans have been developed by researchers at UCL for the first time, promising to increase the speed at which problems can be diagnosed and resolved. The study, published in…

Children whose irritability does not reduce between three and seven years are at higher risk of depression and self-harm as teenagers, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The new findings, published in the Journal of the…

By exploiting the technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, a team led by UCL, King’s College London and Moderna scientists has created an effective therapy for a rare disease, in a study in mice, demonstrating the technology’s potential…

More than 200 genes linked to depression have been newly identified in a worldwide study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Nature Genetics, found more than 50 new genetic loci (a locus is a specific position on a…

An experiment outlined by a UCL-led team of scientists from the UK and India could test whether relatively large masses have a quantum nature, resolving the question of whether quantum mechanical description works at a much larger scale…

Recent SARS-CoV-2 variants such as BA.4 and BA.5 developed abilities missing from the first Omicron variants that allowed them to overcome humans’ innate immunity, according to research from UCL. The study, published in Nature…

Dr Nicholas McGranahan, a computational biologist from UCL Cancer Institute, has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The awards, announced by the Blavatnik Family…