UCL in the media
Covid deaths pass 200,000 in UK
“At the moment there’s a narrative of ‘we got the big calls right on Covid’ and I just don’t think you can look at those numbers and say that,” said Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics).
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Alternatives to Scottish exams?
Professor Gordon Stobart (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) presented alternative options to exams in Scotland to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development after a review found the education system was too focused on “high stakes assessments.”
New cell therapy to fight childhood leukaemia
Professor Waseem Qasim (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) is starting a trial to use a new CRISPR technique for base editing a patient’s DNA to help immune cells fight relapsed T cell leukaemia in children.
Vladimir Putin’s personal Rasputin
Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies) describes Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev as the “devil on Putin’s shoulder whispering poison into his ear.”
Wasps, the overlooked insect
“There’s been a huge amount of research into ants and bees. And yet wasps are the root of all of those,” said Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL Biosciences).
How virulent is the latest Covid strain?
Despite the current increase in covid cases, Professor Francois Balloux (UCL Biosciences) said that scientific data indicates the Omicron BA.5 strain isn’t more virulent than its previous iterations.
The changing expectations of police as protectors
Dr Ben Bradford (UCL Security and Crime Science) describes how expectations about who gets protection from the state by way of the police, has changed since the 1960s.
Gender-based worry gap
Dr Charlotte Faircloth (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) delves into the apparent “gender-based worry gap,” research which indicates that overall women’s mental health fared worse as a result of the pandemic.
How ultra-processed food affects your mind
Professor Rachel Batterham (UCL Medicine) explains how a diet heavy in ultra-processed food affects a person’s body and brain by disrupting the body’s natural hormone system.
Oldest European salamander fossil, discovered in Scotland, informs amphibian origins
Fossils discovered in Scotland represent some of the world’s oldest salamanders, according to a new study led by Dr Marc Jones (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology).
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