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Just one five-minute screening test of the lower colon and rectum for people aged between 55 and 64 could reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer by a third and prevent thousands of deaths from the disease, scientists have found. Their findings were based on a trial published today in The Lancet , in a paper co-authored by Professor Jane Wardle (UCL Epidemiology) and Professor Wendy Atkin (Imperial College London).

It brings together 160 research groups from several faculties, specialised hospitals and institutes across UCL, including the MRC National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), with a common interes

'We hear a lot about the severe impairments that autism brings but we mustn't forget that there are also some extremely interesting qualities in the mind of the autistic person that bring great strength and indeed talent.

PhD student Carina Fearnley (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) assesses the lessons learned from the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano and the chaos it caused to European air travel.

A researcher from UCL is part of a US-led team investigating how the brain and its microcircuitry react to physiological changes and what could be done to encourage its recovery from injury.

A UCL-led team of researchers has won a grant worth more than £850,000 to develop a new model of energy consumption.

Dr Stephanie Schorge (UCL Institute of Neurology) describes how smells, colours and balls inspired London schoolchildren in a day of scientific discovery last month.

PhD student Carina Fearnley (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) says the disruption caused by Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano conceals a success story.

It is easy to understand why CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett School of Architecture, has a special insight into the emotions of international students contemplating life at UCL.

Professor Bill McGuire (Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre) discusses the eruption of the Eyjafjöll volcano in Iceland, which has sent a huge cloud of ash toward the UK and disrupted air traffic.

A world-leading clinical expert in bone research and a pioneer in the emerging field of nanomedicine, Professor Michael Horton has sadly died from cancer, aged 61.

?The 200 visitors to the Gower Street Quad were met by the mounted division of the City of London police and scenes-of-crime officers of the British Transport Police, as well as police motorbikes and cyclists.

Researchers at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory led the team which designed and built the Electron Spectrometer, part of Cassini's CAPS instrument, which continues to make invaluable discoveries. In this video PhD student Sheila Kanani takes us on a journey aboard Cassini-Huygens to Saturn and its moons, and explains why space scientists regard them as the most intriguing destinations in the Solar System.

Jackal skulls, mice skeletons, microfossils and volcanic rocks all feature in 'A Crucial Difference', a new exhibition at UCL.

A UCL-led satellite mission designed to monitor changes in polar ice cover launched successfully on Thursday 8 April from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Selected papers will be presented and discussed at a symposium, 'Glass half empty' Urban water poverty halfway through the Decade of Water for Life', on 10 June 2010.

UCL Occupational Health Service is supporting Mental Health Action Week 2010, running 4?11 April. Each spring the Mental Health Foundation uses Mental Health Action Week to raise awareness of mental health issues across the country.

Links UCL Pension Services Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL) On 1 May, UCL is introducing a PensionsExchange scheme for the benefit of staff that are currently paying in to the USS or SAUL pension schemes.

UCL?s Professor John Butterworth, who led the UK development of one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors, explains the significance of the record-breaking particle collisions achieved today.

Professor Nora De Leeuw (UCL Chemistry) has won £1.1 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to lead a project that aims to produce a catalytic reactor that

In this scenario, Professor Hazell explained, ?Gordon Brown, the incumbent prime minister, will remain in office as prime minister after the election, until it becomes clear who can command confidence in the new Parliament and form the new government ?

All student cluster rooms and the Myriad computers in the UCL libraries will be unavailable on Saturday 27 March due to file store replacement work.

UCL today celebrated the government's commitment of funding to the Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), the planned state-of-the-art biomedical research institute in central London of which UCL is a partner.

The two-day school, which was supported by the Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF) through UCL Advances, was open to second- and third-year undergraduates and current masters students from UCL and other universities.

The deadline for the My Green Idea video competition has been extended to 6 April 2010. Tell us how you can cut your carbon emissions in 2010, and you could win up to £100.

The event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Phillips's poignant version of Paolo Nutini's 'Autumn', recorded on her mobile phone four hours before her mother Debbie died of cervical cancer, generated an overwhelming response when posted on YouTube.

When the UCL Academy opens its doors in September to students in September 2011, Sylvia Jones will be at the helm.