Tag: University College London

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 13:09 UTC

  Genetic analysis of COVID-19 samples suggest it is rapidly adapting to human hosts, UCL report

  

  A genetic analysis of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests that the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world late last year and is adapting to its human hosts, scientists said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 - 18:51 UTC

  South Sandwich Islands hold one of the world's enduring eight lava lake in a crater

  

  Satellite pictures confirm there is a persistent lava lake inside the crater of a remote British Overseas Territory (BOT) volcano. Few enduring lava lakes are known globally; the one at Mount Michael on Saunders Island in the South Atlantic may be only the eighth such example.

• Monday, July 2nd 2018 - 07:03 UTC

  EU university students in UK will have same treatment as home students in post Brexit

  

  European Union students at universities in England will continue to be treated the same as home students in the first intake after Brexit. UK Education Secretary Damian Hinds says EU students starting in autumn 2019 will pay the same tuition fees as English ones and their access to support will be unchanged.

• Wednesday, December 13th 2017 - 22:08 UTC

  “Ground break” in tackling protein defect that causes Huntington's disease

  

  Scientists have for the first time corrected a protein defect that causes Huntington's disease, by injecting a drug into the spine, offering new hope for patients with the devastating genetic disease. Lead researcher Sarah Tabrizi, professor of clinical neurology at University College London, said the ability of the drug to tackle the underlying cause of Huntington's by lowering levels of a toxic protein was “ground-breaking”.

• Friday, October 25th 2013 - 06:06 UTC

  British universities road-show in Chile to promote study opportunities

  

  Representatives from six British top universities will be visiting Chile to promote the study opportunities available in the United Kingdom. The six leading British universities attending the road-show between 24-30 October are all world-renowned research-intensive institutions.

• Tuesday, July 16th 2013 - 03:55 UTC

  Closer to discovering how genetic flaws increase obesity risks

  

  The mystery of a genetic flaw which greatly increases the risk of obesity in one in six people has been solved by an international group of scientists. A version of an obesity gene, called FTO, had been linked to a bigger belly, but the reason why was uncertain.