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Carbon beads help restore healthy gut microbiome and reduce liver disease progression, with a positive impact on liver, kidney and brain function in rats and mice

12 months ago ucl.ac.uk brain disease medicine

Chronic kidney disease patients living in the hottest countries experienced an additional 8% drop in kidney function each year compared to those living in temperate climates, finds a new study

12 months ago ucl.ac.uk disease environment

Poor spatial navigation could predict Alzheimer’s disease years or even decades before the onset of symptoms like cognitive problems or memory loss

13 months ago ucl.ac.uk disease neuroscience

Industrial pollution leaves its mark in Mediterranean corals. Corals showed a significant increase in SCP contamination between about 1969 and 1992

14 months ago ucl.ac.uk environment

Study suggests that colours fade as people age, as the brain of older people is less responsive to the saturation levels of colours within the primary visual cortex

14 months ago ucl.ac.uk brain health

Financial stress is the most harmful type of stress to biological health, according to a study conducted on 4,934 individuals from the UK aged 50 and over.

14 months ago ucl.ac.uk health

Review of genetic data from 21 study with nearly one million study participants found more than 50 new genetic loci and 205 novel genes that are associated with depression, opening a potential target for drugs to treat depression

15 months ago ucl.ac.uk genetics

By exploiting mRNA technology used in Covid-19 vaccines, scientists have created, in a mouse model, an effective therapy to correct a rare liver genetic disease (argininosuccinic aciduria), demonstrating the technology’s potential therapeutic use in people

15 months ago ucl.ac.uk covid disease genetics medicine mrna

New theory seeks to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics

16 months ago ucl.ac.uk physics

Researchers developed a re-usable vest with 256 sensors that can map the electrical activity of the heart in fine detail and could potentially be used to better identify people at high risk of sudden cardiac death

15 months ago ucl.ac.uk engineering

Reducing oxygen levels in critically ill children on mechanical ventilators in intensive care could save tens of young lives each year, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

16 months ago ucl.ac.uk health

Despite pressures facing young families, parents take precious moments to play with their babies: 4 in 5 primary caregivers of 9-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national UK study of babies in over 2 decades…

16 months ago ucl.ac.uk health

Faster warming in the Arctic will be responsible for a global 2C temperature rise being reached eight years earlier than if the region was warming at the average global rate…

17 months ago ucl.ac.uk arctic environment

1 in 7 people in the US reported having long Covid by end of 2022

17 months ago ucl.ac.uk covid medicine

Adversarial Reinforcement Learning and Generalization

16 months ago blogs.ucl.ac.uk

Analyzing data from 7,146 people with an average age of 65 years, study found that consistently sleeping less than 5 hours a night might raise the risk of developing depressive symptoms

17 months ago ucl.ac.uk health

UK air pollution regulations will reduce deaths, but do little to protect ecosystems

17 months ago ucl.ac.uk environment

Calls for verbal abuse of children by adults to be formally recognised as a form of child maltreatment, a finding from a new systematic review of 149 quantitative and 17 qualitative studies.

18 months ago ucl.ac.uk psychology

Fully autonomous cars are not available for personal use, but cars with “driverless” auto-pilot mode are available in some locations

19 months ago ucl.ac.uk neuroscience

Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Functional Language

19 months ago discovery.ucl.ac.uk compiler pdf plt

The Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy has become weaker and more prone to rupturing: researchers interpreted the patterns of earthquakes and ground uplift, and concluded that parts of the volcano had been stretched nearly to breaking point

21 months ago ucl.ac.uk

People who are socially engaged when middle aged and beyond are 30-50% less likely to develop dementia later on

22 months ago ucl.ac.uk health

Study reveals unique molecular machinery of woman who can’t feel pain

22 months ago ucl.ac.uk biology

Climate change is likely to abruptly push species over tipping points as their geographic ranges reach unforeseen temperatures

23 months ago ucl.ac.uk environment

First ‘gene silencing’ drug for Alzheimer’s disease shows promise

23 months ago ucl.ac.uk disease neuroscience

The more vividly a person imagines something, the more likely it is that they believe it’s real

24 months ago ucl.ac.uk neuroscience

Most massive touching stars ever found will eventually collide as black holes

23 months ago ucl.ac.uk

Im2Vec: Synthesizing Vector Graphics Without Vector Supervision

24 months ago geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk graphics

Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent

24 months ago ucl.ac.uk anthropology

In U.K. cities, 25% to 38% of particulate pollution is produced by farms, more than produced by the city itself

24 months ago ucl.ac.uk environment

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