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Outright smartphone bans in schools are likely to be ineffective and undermine students’ trust without addressing core issues like harmful online content, cyberbullying and addictive platform design, a new UCL report finds.

The tight fit of a baby’s head through a mother’s birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood.

The development of a pioneering gene therapy to treat a devastating, rare immune disorder led by UCL scientists is set to move into its next phase following promising early pre-clinical studies.

Early results from a UCL and UCLH-led clinical trial suggest that a type of CAR T-cell therapy - developed by Autolus Therapeutics, a UCL spinout - could offer a new treatment approach for people with severe, treatment-resistant lupus.

Many people with breast cancer can safely avoid chemotherapy with the use of a gene test, potentially sparing them from unnecessary side effects without increasing the risk of the cancer returning, a large international clinical trial led by UCL has found.

A space mission proposed and co-led by UCL researchers, which will image the edge of Earth’s magnetic bubble for the first time, was launched today from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Multi award-winning architect and academic, Professor Yeoryia Manolopoulou, has been appointed as the new Director of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.

Four UCL academics have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants to support their research on topics including space, brain science and ancient civilizations.

Professor Helen Hailes and Dr Rachel Crespo-Otero (both UCL Chemistry) have been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of their exceptional research advancing chemical sciences.