Imperial College
• Genes linked to heart disease and kidney inflammation discovered.
• Sudden oak death tackled by researchers.
King’s College London
• Genetic markers for osteoporosis discovered.
• Asthma research, without using animals.
Royal Institution
• Prof Quentin Pankhurst is new Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, moving from the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
UCL
• Emotional inflation causes stock market analysts to get carried away and make mistakes, say researchers.
• After last week’s ‘bionic eye’ story, workers at Moorfields and UCL report gene therapy for inherited blindness.