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Cystic fibrosis, gene therapy and changing futures
Natasha Harley at a Changing Futures creative workshops. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the UK’s most common genetic conditions. Recently, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium announced the...
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Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics
The general thrust of each of the Wellcome Trust’s challenge areas are, on the face of it, fairly self-evident. For instance, ‘Maximising the health benefits of genetics and genomics’ pretty much says...
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Focus on Stroke
It’s estimated to cost the economy £8 billion per year in England. It causes more than 50 000 deaths every year in the UK and leaves hundreds of thousands more people disabled. A quarter of cases occur...
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Q&A: Vicky Robinson – answering a difficult question with the 3Rs
A researcher handling a mouse. The use of animals in research is one of the most difficult and emotive ethical dilemmas confronting the life sciences. Few of us are comfortable with the thought, but,...
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How much modern genetics should be learnt in school?
Students must learn more about genetics than just Mendel’s peas Science moves so quickly that it would be impossible to alter GCSE and A level courses to include each and every discovery. But...
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How do you turn PhD research into a game?
Mendel game On the 11th July at the Develop games conference in Brighton, the Wellcome Trust launched ‘Gamify Your PhD‘ an innovative new way of communicating science. The project brings together...
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Dance of DNA: A new perspective on genomics
An aerial silk dancer in the performance inspired by ENCODE Attending a press conference at the Science Museum, the journalists, TV cameras and panel of academics were to be expected. But I was not...
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ENCODE decoded for all through open access
ENCODE’s threads “An amazing collaboration,” is how Nature Senior Editor Magdalena Skipper described today’s publication of 30 papers from the ENCODE consortium. Yet Skipper was not referring to the...
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Mitochondrial diseases: have your say
Three mitochondria surrounded by cytoplasm Last week saw a flurry of headlines after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) launched a public consultation – on behalf of the UK...
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Matt Ridley and the human revolution
Matt Ridley stood before me wearing a geekily appropriate DNA-patterned tie. “As a writer I tell stories,” he said. More often than not, they’re big stories about genes. The author of Nature via...
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Book Prize Blog: Perfect People by Peter James
Cover image for ‘Perfect People’ In the latest in our series of Book Prize Blogs, Georgia Bladon reads ‘Perfect People’ – A thriller by one of Britain’s leading crime writers about the lengths parents...
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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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Good vibrations: Fly mating gets all shook up
The courtship of common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), involves the male making a number of specific moves on the female.If successful, this causes her to stop in her tracks. Her immobility...
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The latest buzz on insomnia
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. In this piece, Elizabeth Hull describes how experiments in fruit flies are uncovering the genetics of sleep....
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The naming of the genes
We’re publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Today, Audrey Nailor on where scientists get their wonderful names for things. Cheap Date. ShavenBaby. Tinman....
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The science of gaming: ‘Make Something Unreal Live’
The finalists of ‘Make Something Unreal Live’ 2013 “There’s something about genetics that seems to lend itself to computer games,” said Carl Anderson, a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger...
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The need to know: deciphering developmental disorders
The Oakes family Life can be challenging for the families of children with developmental disorders. About 1 in 1000 babies are born with an error in their genetic make-up that causes delays in their...
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Cambridge Science Festival 2013
Next week sees the start of the annual Cambridge Science Festival, your opportunity to discover, question and take part in scientific activity at the University of Cambridge. We’ve put together a quick...
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Uncovering the hidden mutations in developmental disorders
Mouse models are teaching us a lot about developmental disorders, but some mutations remain hidden because of their very nature. Tim Mohun explains how a major new genetics project is going to uncover...
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Around the World in 80 Days – Part 6: Germany
Over the course of four months, Barry Gibb visited our major overseas programmes in Africa and Asia to make a film about Wellcome Collection’s Art in Global Health project. In the latest of his diary...
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