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'Chase and run' cell movement mechanism explains metastasis
A mechanism that cells use to group together and move around the body – called 'chase and run' - has been described for the first time by scientists at UCL. More...
Published: Jun 17, 2013 10:08:52 AM
UCL ISR Director joins UN International Resources Panel
Professor Paul Ekins, Director of the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, has been appointed as a member on the International Resource Panel, part of the United Nations Environment Programme, for three years starting from May 2013. More...
Published: Jun 14, 2013 11:22:00 PM
Professor Anne Johnson receives damehood in Queen's Birthday Honours
Anne M. Johnson (MD FMedSci FRCP FFPH FRCGP), Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, has been awarded a damehood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2013. More...
Published: Jun 14, 2013 11:22:00 PM
UCL President & Provost knighted in Queen’s Birthday Honours
Professor Malcolm Grant, President & Provost of UCL, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2013 for services to higher education. More...
Published: Jun 14, 2013 10:31:26 PM
Professor Peng Khaw knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours
Professor Peng Tee Khaw, Professor of Glaucoma and Ocular Healing and Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2013. More...
Published: Jun 14, 2013 10:30:32 PM
Blood pressure at night is higher than previously thought
Scientists at UCL have developed new technology which reveals that blood pressure measured close to the heart is much higher during sleep than previously thought. Night time blood pressure is a strong predictor of both heart disease and stroke, with previous studies establishing that blood pressure measured over the arm falls at night during sleep. However these new data indicate that the night-time decline in blood pressure may be less extensive than previously thought. More...
Published: Jun 11, 2013 12:04:59 PM
