LEGO2NANO 2015 kicks off
August 2015 UCL students from across a range of disciplines travel to China to team up with students from Beijing, Boston (USA) and Taipei (Taiwan) for an action-packed two-week hackathon summer school based at Tsinghua University’s Beijing and Shenzhen campuses....
LCN scientists recognised in IOP awards
Two LCN scientists, Geoff Thornton and Chris Pickard, have been recognised in this year’s Institute of Physics awards (Left: Chris Pickard; Right: Geoff Thornton) Tabor Medal – Prof Geoff Thornton (UCL Chemistry) “For his contributions to...
Oriented growth is an emergent property of cellularised tissues
Scientists at the LCN have shown that the ability of tissues to orient their growth in response to externally applied forces is a simple consequence of the mechanics of cellularised materials and the ability of individual cells to divide along their long axis. The...