UCL in the media
Gene therapy gets a high-stakes test
Dr Anna David (UCL Maternal & Fetal Medicine) is developing the first ever clinical trial for gene therapy in pregnancy.
Read: Science (£)Pupils at all girls' schools are more likely to get anorexia
Research by the University of Oxford, UCL, Bristol University, and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has found that the school a girl attends can affect her chance of being diagnosed with an eating disorder.
Read: Daily Mail, More: UCL NewsElements: hydrogen - water
Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) explains why water is essential for life, and why it is far weirder than we realise.
Listen: BBC World Service 'Business Daily' (from 1 min 34 secs)Happiness and government
Dr Paul Ormerod (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) says that policymakers should not claim that they can increase happiness through public policy decisions.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' (from 13 mins 42 secs)Dementia cases down by a fifth in 20 years
Commenting on a study that has calculated a drop in dementia cases over the past two decades, Professor John Hardy (UCL Institute of Neurology) said: "An important and difficult question is what is behind this improvement: if we knew we could perhaps improve more and help reduce the incidence in women".
Read: Evening StandardDrop in dementia rates suggests disease can be prevented
Professor Nick Fox (UCL Institute of Neurology) says that a study on the prevalence of dementia over the past two decades suggests that "our risk, in any particular age in later life, can be reduced probably by what we do 10, 20 or 30 years before".
Read: GuardianEuropean scientists set eyes on ice moon Europa
Dr Geraint Jones (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) explains how the "hard lander" technology to investigate Europa has been tested.
Read: BBC NewsApple vs FBI
Dr Steven Murdoch (UCL Computer Science) comments on the ongoing dispute between Apple and the FBI over the unlocking of iPhones.
Listen: BBC Radio Scotland 'Good Morning Scotland' (from 1 hour 56 mins)International brain projects proposed
Professor Michael Hausser (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research) says that there is a need for better vetting, sharing, and storing of neuroscience data.
Read: ScienceWhat the people of Nagorno-Karabakh think about the future of their homeland
Dr Kristin Bakke (UCL Political Science) says that after more than 20 years of tenuous ceasefire, Nagorno-Karabakh is once again the centre of a violent conflict, and its people haven't exactly had their say.
Read: The Conversation