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Feature: deceptive appearances – engineering cartilage
An illustration of the changes in articular cartilage that occur in osteoarthritis. Credit: Medical Art Service, Munich, Wellcome Images. The tiny area of uncertainty that is inevitably left by...
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Feature: The biggest poisoning in history
One of the more bitter ironies of human existence is the way the best of our intentions can fall foul of Murphy’s Law and wind up as paving stones on the proverbial road to hell. A recent, devastating...
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Brains: the ethics of new technologies
Last week the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published their latest report, Novel Neurotechnologies: intervening in the brain. Emma Rhule attended the launch. EEG cap – used during transcranial...
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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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Public Engagement Round-Up: December
There are lots of exhibitions and events funded by the Engaging Science Awards that are still on throughout December – and it’s your last chance to see some of these fantastic projects! Winter Shuffle...
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Is there a place for the arts in the medical curriculum?
Image credit: Hugo Glendinning This autumn, London-based performing arts company, Clod Ensemble and Wales Millennium Centre presented Performing Medicine: The Anatomy Season. This a series of...
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Illustrations in science education – raising the game
Illustrations can be a powerful way to engage people with scientific concepts. Sir John Holman, the Wellcome Trust’s Senior Fellow in Education, and Stephanie Sinclair and Rosalyn Taylor in Wellcome’s...
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Image of the Week: Lipid motion in a cell membrane
This week’s image of the week is a guest post by Dr Matthieu Chavent, a post-doctoral researcher funded by the Wellcome Trust. His image shows a model of lipid motion in a cell membrane – and it...
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What’s it worth? The economic case for medical research
What’s it worth, a report published today, is one of the first ever estimates of the economic gains from investment in publicly funded UK cancer research. The research was commissioned by the Wellcome...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Scott Waddell
Professor Scott Waddell (Credit: Wellcome Images) Professor Scott Waddell is a Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow. Scott studied...
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The Discoverability Challenge – How Can We Make Research Data Easier to Find...
Enhancing the discoverability of public health and epidemiology research data is a key to ensuring that it gets more widely used. This was the topic of a recent workshop hosted by the London School of...
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Image of the Week: Xenopus
Move over Paul the Octopus, this friendly looking creature can tell if you’re pregnant or not… .. well, sort of. This week’s image is of a Xenopus, a type of aquatic frog native to southern Africa,...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Faith Osier
Dr Faith Hope Among’in Osier is a Clinical Research Fellow and Group leader at the KEMRI-Wellcome Research Institute in Kenya. She holds a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship in Public Health and...
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Image of the Week: Dissection
This week’s image of the week is interesting for a number of reasons. At first glance, it looks like a delicate antique fan that might keep you cool in the heat of summer, but in reality it is...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Helen McShane
Professor Helen McShane is a Professor of Vaccinology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Oxford University, where she leads a programme of research to develop a new vaccine for Tuberculosis...
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Reality behind research: 21 years of oral history with Wellcome Witness
Thousands of scientific papers are published every year, reporting on interesting results, but the standard format – introduction, materials and methods, results, conclusions, references – leaves...
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Shaping our Sustaining Health initiative
The city of New York came to a standstill on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people joined the People’s Climate march. Chants of “Show me what democracy looks like – This is what democracy looks...
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Image of the Week: Artificial Knee Joint
Perhaps you see vessels or worm-like structures when looking at our image this week. Or perhaps it looks more like synthetic fibres or metal wires. There’s something quite beautiful about it but also...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 29/09/14
Our fortnightly round-up of research news from the Wellcome Trust community… Immune system of newborn babies is stronger than previously thought The immune system of a newborn baby, although very...
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Director’s Update: Changes to the Wellcome Trust’s structure and leadership
Since he joined us this time last year, Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust, has been listening – to staff, to researchers, to members of the Wellcome community, and more. In this post he...
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