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Top blog posts 2011
We’ve had quite the 2011 here at the Wellcome Trust. This year the blog has seen more articles, guest authors and page views than ever before. We’d like to thank you all for taking the time to read,...
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A game of nerves
Reblogged from Wellcome Collection blog: Axon Our new game Axon is now live. It accompanies our new exhibition, Brains: The Mind as Matter, which opens next week. In this fast-paced game, you must...
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Nuts and bolts: mitochondria
Nuts and bolts: mitochondria (click for the full image - PDF) Hailed as the ‘powerhouses’ of the cell in thousands of textbooks, mitochondria rightly have a reputation as essential pieces of cellular...
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Focus on stroke: Making a campaign out of a crisis
The Act FAST campaign, designed to boost awareness of stroke as a medical emergency, has generated some provocative imagery, not least the ‘burning brain’ seen in a series of TV and printed adverts....
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Focus on stroke: Bharatbhai’s story
Bharatbhai had his first stroke (an ischaemic stroke) whilst he was visiting family in India in early 2008. The blood clot was removed and he returned to the UK, where he suffered a second stroke (a...
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Focus on stroke: The loss of language
In this short film, we meet Tess and Michael, two people who suddenly found themselves robbed of the ability to talk following a stroke. Thanks to the brain’s remarkable ability to regain function,...
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Focus on stroke: Restructuring the brain
The Beano (like The Beezer before it) hypothesises that our perceptions and actions are managed by five little men living in five separate rooms in our skulls. Although modern neuroscience has yet to...
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Get that grant: How to secure an Investigator Award
Launched in 2011, our Investigator Awards build on our strategic goal of supporting the brightest researchers with the best ideas. So how do you get one? Danny Altmann, Head of Pathogens, Immunology...
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Help us help you (with your Wellcome web needs)
It’s an exciting time in the user experience department at the Wellcome Trust: we are getting to know the people who use our websites! The user experience team represents the voices of you lovely folk...
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Blog and Social Media Editor job
A quick plug: We’re looking for a Blog and Social Media Editor to help run and develop our online communications, including this very blog. So if you breathe science blogs and Tweetdeck doesn’t scare...
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Freeing us from our cells: debating mitochondrial disease
A human ovum ready for in vitro fertilization ‘What’s that you say? They’re filming for BBC2? And it’s being presented by Brian Cox….?’ Before we all started craning for a glimpse of the famous...
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Feature: Changing Fates - Sir John Gurdon
Reblogged from Wellcome Trust Blog: Sir John Gurdon Professor Sir John Gurdon is the man who made cloning possible, pioneering nuclear transfer and the ‘reprogramming’ of the fate of cells. Yet, as he...
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Sticking points in HIV treatment
‘“Why did you stop taking the drugs?” ‘I tell them, “I have stopped because I don’t have enough food.” Then they say, “You must not stop! […] Eat and take your medicine!” ‘Their thoughts and my...
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Feature: Keeping time – circadian clocks
Our planet was revolving on its axis, turning night into day every 24 hours, for 4.5 billion years – long before any form of life existed here. About a billion years later, the very first simple...
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Losing face? The symbolism of facial mutilation
Facial mutilation is a repugnant crime, but its medieval use as a punishment may have had some symbolic significance. Penny Bailey explores a Wellcome Trust-funded project on the history of facial...
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The 12 days of Christmas
Here at the Trust, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We’ve decked the halls, indulged in more than a few mince pies and are now waiting to see if we’ll get a white Christmas. Today being...
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Science highlights 2012: What’s yours?
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) team cheer after learning the the Curiosity rover has landed safely on Mars This year has been billed as a golden year for British sport and a diamond year for the...
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Top of the blog 2012
Twenty-twelve: not just a number, not just a ‘year of sport’. It’s been another bumper crop of exciting stuff in the world of science, medical history, public engagement and all the stuff in and...
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Feature: Professor Kneebone and the remarkable pop-up operating theatre
Above: Professor Roger Kneebone You may find a surgeon in the theatre, but you do not usually expect to see one on the stage. Professor Roger Kneebone, however, seems equally at home with both....
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World Cancer Day: Stories from the day hospice
Illustration by Marianne Dear Today is World Cancer Day. This year’s campaign is about dispelling myths around cancer. Chrissie Giles, who ran a creative writing group in a hospice over the summer of...
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