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The first successful in-patient trial of liver dialysis* has been completed by researchers from UCL, the Royal Free Hospital, UCL spin-out Yaqrit and their collaborators.

UCL archaeologist Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin has been working with Brazilian researchers and indigenous peoples to help better understand and share their cultural heritage.

UCL has competed in University Challenge since the show's debut in 1962. We speak to next season's team, who will compete in the first series without the inimitable Jeremy Paxman.

Children living with long-term poverty and whose families rely on food banks are more likely to achieve lower GCSE grades, finds a report co-authored by UCL researchers.

The World Health Organization Council on the Economics of Health for All, chaired by a UCL researcher, has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver health for all in the first-ever report of its kind.

An exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale exploring the concept of cities and urbanism through the lens of a 6,000-year-old Ukrainian archaeological site was developed by a UCL researcher with the Forensic Architecture group at Goldsmiths University.

An international clinical trial co-led by UCL researchers will evaluate much-needed new antibiotic combinations for newborn babies with sepsis.

Young people who provide informal unpaid care to family members or others outside their household are on average 38% less likely to obtain a university degree than their counterparts with no caring responsibilities, according to a new study by UCL researchers. The study, published in Advances in Life Course Research , looked at up to 10 years of data from more than 27,000 young adults in the UK who were aged between 16 and 29.

The new innovative content sharing and best practice platform that will offer advice and guidance to international school counsellors, tasked with advising the brightest global students on university and career selection, will be supported by UCL.

An innovative content sharing and best practice platform that will offer advice and guidance to international school counsellors, tasked with advising the brightest global students on university and career selection, is to be co-created by UCL.

One of the world's largest fundamentalist Christian education groups is teaching its students climate change denial as fact, and still presents the theory of evolution as an 'absurd and discredited' conspiracy theory, finds a report by UCL researchers.

Consumers paid high energy costs while electricity generators saw enormous increases in revenues beyond their costs, finds a new report by UCL researchers that traces the revenues of the UK's electricity generation sector during the 2022 energy crisis.

UCL's new world-class neuroscience building has reached its highest point in construction, which was celebrated with a 'topping out' ceremony today.

Researchers from the UCL Institute of Immunity & Transplantation (IIT) are leading a collaborative project with biopharma company GSK, aiming to discover innovative new kidney cancer treatments that use the patient's own cells.

A new report by an international consortium of leading astronomers, including UCL's Professor Amelie Saintonge, has set out recommendations to transform our understanding of the universe in the next decade.

The language used to communicate fertility awareness should be more empathetic and target both men and women, finds a new study involving UCL researchers.

Professor Benedetta Rossi (UCL History), writing in The Conversation, explores the destructive legacy that slavery and forced marriage together have had on women in parts of Africa, both historically and how it continues to the present day.

More than 90% of postmenopausal women were never taught about the menopause at school and over 60% only started looking for information about it once their symptoms had started, finds a new UCL-led study. In the study, published in Post Reproductive Health , researchers collected data from 829 postmenopausal women through an online survey in May 2021.

UCL has partnered with a new payment provider, Flywire, to enable all self-paying domestic and international students to pay tuition and accommodation fees safely and securely - plus with cheaper foreign exchange rates.

A new landmark study into legal failings associated with the Post Office scandal, led by UCL and the University of Exeter, is being launched to support improvements in culture and ethical practice to prevent similar injustice occurring in the future. The scandal, currently subject to a statutory judicial inquiry, has blighted scores of lives.

PhD candidate Nancy Bird (UCL Genetics Institute) describes in The Conversation how her genetics research reveals evidence of the migrations of ancient people across Africa, and other major events of the past, embedded in the genomes of today's inhabitants. Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilisations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent.