UCL in the media
A brain 'living in the Matrix'
Scientists including Professor Karl Friston (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) have unveiled a $600,000 plan to merge more human brain cells with AI through the Dishbrain system, in partnership with Australia-based bio-tech start-up Cortical Labs.
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Common £3 kitchen staple ‘slashes your risk of dying from dementia by 28%’
Honorary Professor David Curtis (UCL Biosciences) comments on new research exploring the links between olive oil, health and dementia risk, saying the research does not confirm a causal relationship.
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‘In some ways, Parkinson’s has meant a new lease of life’: meet the Movers and Shakers
Gillian Lacey-Solymar (UCL School of Management) talks to The Observer about living with Parkinson's disease and her involvement in the Movers and Shakers podcast.
Paranoid Putin bolsters his National Guard to protect him from another coup
Dr Ben Noble (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) describes Vladimir Putin's decision to reinforce his National Guard with its own elite special forces unit, as well as tanks, warplanes, and artillery, as an attempt to “coup-proof the Kremlin.”
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The secrets to staying safe in Botox Britain
UCL researchers have found that 80 per cent of Botox users suffer from side effects including headaches, dizziness, and brain fog. Anxiety was the most common complication, affecting 85 people out of 511 patients surveyed.
Elder Orca mother's protect sons from fights
Professor Ruth Mace (UCL Anthropology) who was not involved in the study, commented that the idea that post-reproductive life had evolved so women can help children is well established in humans, "So it is very interesting that this is also being established in killer whales."
UCL awards 9.5 per cent pay rise under £110 million staffing plan
ʼһill give staff at the lower and middle points of pay scales a larger incremental rise to top up the nationally set increase of between 5 and 8 per cent. Other new benefits included an increase in London weighting to £5,000 by the end of the year for staff in grades 1 to 7.
Any Questions?
Dr Maya Goodfellow (UCL Institute for Advanced Studies) joins a panel including Chris Philp MP, Margaret Hodge MP and Tim Montgomerie for political debate from the Quadram Institute in Norwich.
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Genetic quirk could explain why not everyone shows symptoms of COVID-19
"The study makes a really convincing case that this allele [gene variant] is protective," said Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Biosciences) who cautioned that it does not mean that people with one or two copies of the variant will never have symptomatic COVID-19.
A nation off-guard: what the UK Covid inquiry has revealed
UK plans lacked focus on “the socioeconomic implications, even though these were well known”, highlighted Professor David Alexander (UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) who said this was partly due to the framing of Covid as a "medical, epidemiological problem".