Mass of human chromosomes measured for the first time
For the study, published in Chromosome Research, researchers including the LCN Professor Ian Robinson and Archana Bhartiya used a powerful X-ray beam at the UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, to determine the number of electrons in a spread of...
Celebrating the International Day of Light
On Thursday, 20 May, the London Institute for Advanced Light Technologies hosted The Shared Language of Light, an interdisciplinary panel event to celebrate light in all its forms. The event was the culmination of Lighting Up 2021, a series of events that London Light...
Rapid isothermal amplification diagnostic test to detect multiple COVID-19 genes
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of testing to limit the spread of the virus, and the need for rapid nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT) to widen access to testing, particularly in low resource settings. In response to this challenge, the UCL...
Dramatic increase in the size of systems that can be simulated on current quantum computers
Researchers at UCL, King’s College London, Technical University of Munich, and the quantum software start-up GTN have developed new algorithms that can simulate an infinite quantum system on finite quantum computers. Currently available quantum computers have...