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January 24, 2017
From the lab to the hospital: medical robotics, a team...
Exoskeletons, microsurgery robots, robotic prostheses—robotics and the medical sector have never complemented each other so well. In 2014, UCL created Louvain Bionics, a centre of expertise unique in Europe that aims to drive medical robotics research. It’s a key challenge for the future that’s...
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January 17, 2017
Global warming: Next stop, the Arctic
Pushing fundamental research toward its applications—that’s the challenge of the European Horizon 2020 APPLICATE project. Its goal is to more accurately predict the effect on Europe of Arctic warming. Researchers at the Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research are unleashing their...
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January 17, 2017
Safer restoration of female fertility after cancer: the...
Cancer treatment can save your life; it can also make you infertile. UCL pioneered post-cancer female fertility restoration by freezing ovarian tissue prior to treatment and subsequently reimplanting it. The procedure has contributed to scores of births but in some types of cancer a...
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January 15, 2017
Tree transpiration
Thanks in part to the contribution of UCL researchers, the amount of water that returns to the atmosphere from a given tract of forest can now be measured. This is a major advance for the field of resource management.
‘Too bad there’s no Nobel Prize for environmental science’, quips Marnik...
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December 21, 2016
Mummies full of surprises
In 2015, the Saint-Luc University Hospital Radiology and Medical Imaging Department, in collaboration with a UCL research team, scanned 25 mummies belonging to the Cinquantenaire Museum, revealing some of their secrets.
For a long time the only way to see what was inside a mummy was to...
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