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Public Engagement Round-up – October 2014
This October is an exciting one for public engagement events, with something to spark everyone’s imagination! Here’s our roundup of Wellcome Trust funded events going on this month across the UK (and...
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Image of the Week: Thuja seed
This week we bring you a wrinkly, dull coloured seed. Whilst we certainly have some more stunning images in the collection, it’s the story behind this plant that makes it worth seeing. This is a seed...
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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: ‘ferning’ saliva
The beautiful branching structure of these crystal formations may remind you of minature ferns. If so, you aren’t alone – our image this week depicts of a phenomenon known as “ferning”! What you are...
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Image of the Week: Lung Cancer Cells
This Image of the Week was written by Alice Sheehan. This month is lung cancer awareness month, which aims to raise the profile of one of the world’s biggest cancer killers. Cancer is a condition...
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Image of the week: King Richard III
This week’s image is of one of the oldest surviving portraits of King Richard III. It’s also the most accurate. How do we know? Because, after almost two years of cloak-and-dagger secrecy, a research...
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Ask For Evidence
New year – new you? Tempted by promises of detox diets, super-foods and high-tech work out plans? Before you pay out for them, take a moment to consider whether the claims are based on solid science,...
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Ebola One Year On: a Wellcome Trust Research Round-Up Special
A year ago today (23 March 2014), the World Health Organization confirmed what many in the global health community had already feared. An outbreak of a deadly haemorrhagic fever that had emerged a few...
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World TB Day: what next for prevention and treatment?
TB remains a global problem with 1.5 million deaths and 9 million cases per year. On World TB Day, Wellcome Trust Senior Science Portfolio Developer Marta Tufet looks back at the history of TB...
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Director’s Update: Fossil fuel investments are a complex issue on which...
The Wellcome Trust holds some investments in fossil fuel companies, which campaigners are asking us to sell. Jeremy Farrar, our Director, explains in an open letter to our community why this is a...
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Wellcome Trust Research Round-up: 20.04.15
Our fortnightly round-up of news from the Wellcome Trust community… A bright future for the mountain gorilla The first project to sequence the whole genomes of mountain gorillas has left scientists...
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Image of the Week: Sequencing Ebola genomes
Our image – or in this case video – of the week is a time-lapse video of Professor Ian Goodfellow installing viral genome sequencer machines in Sierra Leone. Professor Goodfellow and his colleagues...
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How close are we to a vaccine for malaria?
On the eve of World Malaria Day 2015, the global health community is celebrating the publication of the final data on the efficacy of the world’s most advanced malaria vaccine, RTS,S. Here, Professor...
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Wellcome Trust Events Round-up – May 2015
May is one of our favourite months, with not one, but two bank holidays and the promise of sunny days ahead. As if that wasn’t reason enough to be cheerful, we have a great selection of events,...
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When the earth shook: a view from Patan Hospital in Kathmandu
On 25 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook Nepal. Centered in the village of Barpak in the Gorkha district of the country, it is the most powerful quake to hit the country since 1934. So far it...
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Researcher Spotlight: Dr Rebeccah Slater
Dr Rebeccah Slater is a Research Career Development Fellow based at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on understanding infants’ experience of pain using brain-imaging and how we can...
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Image of the Week: Day 489, Perfect Focus
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week (11-17 May) our image of the week is Day 489, Perfect Focus from Bobby Baker’s Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me. This is one in a series of more than...
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Invisible You – the Human Microbiome
This month the Eden Project launches a new permanent exhibition dedicated to the entire world that exists within us – Invisible You. The Human Microbiome. Science project manager from Eden, Gabriella...
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Image of the Week: Killer T Cells Caught on Camera
In this striking video, researchers at the University of Cambridge have captured our body’s ‘serial killers’ – cytoxic T cells which hunt down and destroy tumour cells. Cytoxic T cells are a...
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Reality bites back: Ideas & Science at Sheffield Doc/Fest
The annual Sheffield Doc/Fest showcases and premieres the best in documentary from around the world alongside live events and interactive exhibitions. This year, Ideas & Science, a cross-cutting...
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