Prostate cancer research director John Masters, professor of experimental pathology at University College, London, said that men of Afro-Caribbean descent are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than the average male, while those with a father or son who has had the disease is twice as likely to be diagnosed.
Universities should pitch in and help schools do better, says Michael Worton, vice-provost of University College London.
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She sat for the formal, supervised, three-hour test at the University College of London medical school.
Study leader Dr Lee Hudson from the Institute of Child Health, University College London, said more under-13s now presented with eating disorders than meningitis due to the success of vaccination programmes.
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Statistics expert Professor Patrick Wolfe, from University College London, said the absolute risk of Type-2 diabetes is low at about 4% of the adult UK population.
The provost of University College, London, Malcolm Grant, said better-off students who did not need public loans would be able simply to bypass the funding system - so they would get a free university education and universities would get no financial benefit from their participation.
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King's College London and the University of Southampton both offer six-year degrees (a year longer than normal) to about one in ten of their medical students.
Dr John Twigg, a researcher at the Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre of University College, London, says most governments invest in post-disaster response and very little in making people secure.
Using spacecraft data to make an Arctic-wide assessment of sea ice thickness , a University College London team found the 2008 winter maximum to be about 10% (26cm) below the 2002-2008 average.
StemCell Ventures is working with the University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology to devise a patch containing adult-eye stem cells that could be implanted in the eye in hopes of restoring vision.
Chris McManus, a professor of psychology at University College London who has made a study of the pros and cons of left-handedness, said it was true that left-handers did have an advantage in a fight.
The study was led by Patricia Conrod, of King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, with the University of Montreal and Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center in Canada.
Part of the evidence for that theory comes from the Whitehall study, a giant 20-year study of British civil servants conducted by Sir Michael Marmot of University College, London.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.
If the museum does decide to repatriate the object, it will be as a sign of good will, according to Tim Schadla-Hall, a Reader in Public Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
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