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Streptococcus salivarius is a bacterium that lives peacefully in our digestive tract. A team of researchers at UCL has highlighted the communication and attack mechanisms that allow it to fight other bacteria with which it competes and that are sometimes harmful to us. In numerical terms, the...

On 15 February, the Anthropology of Contemporary Europe Chair(1) organised its first thematic day, focusing on the Danube. The new chair, launched in September at UCL, aims to build a network of researchers interested in the experience and representations of Europeans in all their...

UCL researchers have discovered a new mechanism at work in cardiac hypertrophy, which could pave the way to a more targeted treatment of this potentially harmful condition. The least that can be said of the heart is that it never rests. It beats an average of 100,000 times a day. At each...

In 2015, in Kazakhstan, nearly 200,000 saiga antelopes died in less than a month. A multidisciplinary and international team of researchers investigated this mysterious hecatomb. The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) is an emblematic species. And not only because of its funny snout! It’s also...