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Research at Colleges Newsletter for 2024-07-08 ( 2 items )  
Bowel Cancer Turns Genetic Switches on and Off to Outwit the Immune System (10)
LONDON, England, July 3 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximise their chances of survival, a phenomenon that's been observed for the first time by researchers at UCL and University Medical Center Utrecht. The number of genetic mutations in a cancer cell was previously thought to be purely down to chance. But a new study, published in Nature Genetics, has provided  more PR

Cool Roofs are Best at Beating Cities' Heat (10)
LONDON, England, July 6 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: Painting roofs white or covering them with a reflective coating would be more effective at cooling cities like London than vegetation-covered "green roofs," street-level vegetation or solar panels, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Conversely, extensive use of air conditioning would warm the outside environment by as much as 1 degree C in London's dense city centre, the researchers found. The  more PR