UCL in the media
Drive to improve housing can bring unintended consequences
Clive Shrubsole (UCL Bartlett) looks at how the reduction of householdÌýCO2Ìýemissions can have unintended consequences on buildings, inhabitants and the environment.
Arty 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.
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 asÌý"very meaningful".
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Professor JohnÌýGuillebaud (UCLÌýMaternal and Fetal Medicine) answers the BMJ's questions about work, life and less serious matters.
Conservation should protect the most genetically unique species, not just the most rare
Dr David Redding (UCLÌýGenetics, Evolution and Environment) discusses a new approach to conservation which looks at the genetic uniqueness of endangered species.
The 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.
Funders punish open-access dodgers
Dr Paul Ayris (UCLÌýLibrary Services) says theÌýdecision by four UK higher-education funders to consider only open-access papers posted to online institutional archives for the Research Excellence Framework will be "aÌýgame-changer".
Green or white? Planted or painted roofs can cool buildings
Gurdane Virk (UCL Bartlett)Ìýlooks at two potential ways of reducing the urban heat island effect - planted roofs and white painted roofs.
Dark 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.
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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