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17 June 2013: '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...

11 June 2013: 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...

6 June 2013: UCL awarded £11.1m towards new Institute of Immunity and Transplantation

UCL has been awarded £11.1 million from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF) towards the cost of the new UCL Institute for Immunity and Transplantation at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. More...

6 June 2013: Strategy for Francis Crick Institute unveiled at topping out ceremony

Sir Paul Nurse, Director of the Francis Crick Institute, unveiled the organisation’s strategy today at a ceremony attended by senior government ministers and heads of the institute's founding partners, including UCL's President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant. More...

29 May 2013: Avatar therapy helps silence voices in schizophrenia

An avatar system that enables people with schizophrenia to control the voice of their hallucinations is being developed by researchers at UCL with support from the Wellcome Trust. More...

23 May 2013: UCLPartners gets the green light to improve the healthcare of over six million people

17 May 2013: Grassroots women’s groups could halve maternal death rate

17 May 2013: Global health policy fails to address burden of disease on men

16 May 2013: Post-mortem MRI: a viable alternative to an autopsy

16 May 2013: Grant Museum wins Cultural Pros Award at Museums + Heritage Awards

13 May 2013: Stress and unhealthy lifestyle increase risk of heart disease

9 May 2013: TRACK-HD study identifies early predictors of disease progression in Huntington's disease

1 May 2013: Behaviour of seabirds during migration revealed

19 April 2013: Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas

18 April 2013: European Commission must innovate to get value from €70 billion science funding programme

12 April 2013: Search for new antibiotics advanced by discovery of key processes within bacterial protein

4 April 2013: Child heart surgeons access clearer picture of their success rate

27 March 2013: UCL PhD researcher strikes gold in Parliament

27 March 2013: UCL Friends of MSF charity run

26 March 2013: Call for proposals: UCL–French Embassy science and technology workshops

20 March 2013: UCL and Oxford unite to tackle challenge of sustainable medical innovation

15 March 2013: Taking medicine to extreme heights

13 March 2013: UCL Open Access Guidelines and Publishing Guide

11 March 2013: The Great Brain Experiment: crowdsourcing data on how we think and act

27 February 2013: Bowel cancers reshuffle their genetic pack to cheat treatment