Tech that could be brought in via the UK Government’s Online Safety Bill could be used to turn millions of phones into facial recognition tools. This is according to new research from Imperial College London that looked at the potential privacy implications of a tool called client-side scanning (CSS). Under the Online Safety Bill currently […]
Imperial and the University of Tokyo have announced a major new strategic relationship for cleantech and energy research. The partnership was announced by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at a UK-Japan business forum ahead of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. The partnership builds on major industry-research centres in climate repair and energy systems that both […]
Pupils in these families achieved half a grade lower per subject than they would be expected to, even taking previous grades and other aspects of household finances into account. The authors say this raises concerns about the long-term impact of the cost-of-living crisis. The study also found that just over four in five (81%) of […]
The world’s first centre dedicated to studying and providing lifesaving innovations to children injured by explosive weapons has been launched. Children are seven times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults. They tend to experience different types of injuries than adults and require specialist care that accounts for their physiology and growth. However, […]
body properly. Current ways of classifying heart failure do not accurately predict how the disease is likely to progress. For the study, published in Lancet Digital Health, researchers looked at detailed anonymised patient data from more than 300,000 people aged 30 years or older who were diagnosed with heart failure in the UK over a […]
The council, created by WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in November 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and chaired by Professor Mariana Mazzucato (UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose), has spent the last two years rethinking the economy from a “health for all” perspective, and pushing the principle that human and planetary […]
MPs and Committee members Stephen Metcalfe and Carol Monaghan visited three UCL labs on Wednesday 17 May. The visit related to a recent inquiry by the committee into the antimicrobial potential of bacteriophages, which could be used instead of, or alongside antibiotics. Bacteriophages (or ‘phages’) are viruses that kill bacteria. Professor Joanne Santini (UCL Structural […]
The research, published in The Lancet, estimates that around one in ten individuals in the UK now live with an autoimmune disorder. The findings also highlight important socioeconomic, seasonal and regional differences for several autoimmune disorders, providing new clues as to what factors may be involved in these conditions. Autoimmune diseases occur when an issue […]
