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August 17, 2017
A better understanding of Antarctic pack ice variation
While the Arctic pack ice has continued to melt, the Antarctic pack ice tended rather to expand between 1979 and 2015, before its extent was also drastically reduced in 2016 and 2017. A surprising expansion phenomenon in the era of global warming!
While at present the recent variation in the...
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August 04, 2017
Face grafting: a fast-evolving field at UCL
For over ten years, facial reconstruction has been a central area of interest for UCL researchers. Their objective is to develop innovative techniques to adapt as closely as possible to the patient. We find out more.
In 2005, Professor Benoît Lengelé of UCL performed the world’s first face...
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July 25, 2017
Jérôme Mallefet’s abyssal fishing
To draw up an inventory of the abyssal fauna; this was the ambitious objective of the Australian international mission in which Jérôme Mallefet participated. Over a month of intensive work in search of bioluminescent species was on the agenda. An interview.
If there is a fauna that...
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July 25, 2017
Perfume emission from flowers
Flowers emit a sweet perfume that attracts not only pollinating insects, but human beings, who use them to create perfumes widely used in cosmetics. But how do these flowers emit them into the air? François Lefèvre and Baptiste Pierman, researchers at the UCL Life Sciences Institute, are part of...
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July 11, 2017
Antibiotics and cystic fibrosis: a good idea?
UCL researchers have made the troubling discovery that macrolides, the antibiotics frequently prescribed to sufferers of cystic fibrosis, foster resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterium found just about everywhere in nature. To healthy people, it’s...
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